Silvio Micali is an Italian computer scientist, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the founder of Algorand, a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol. His research at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory centers on cryptography and information security, and in 2012 he and Shafi Goldwasser received the Turing Award for their work on cryptography. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof: "Zero-knowledge proofs were first conceived in 1985 by Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, and Charles Rackoff in their paper The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof-Systems."
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Silvio Micali is an Italian computer scientist, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the founder of Algorand, a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol. His research at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory centers on cryptography and information security, and in 2012 he and Shafi Goldwasser received the Turing Award for their work on cryptography.
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October 13, 1954
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