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Shafi Goldwasser

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Shafrira Goldwasser, known as Shafi Goldwasser, is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, with Silvio Micali, won the 2012 ACM Turing Award. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1959 1
Birth Date
1959-11-14 1
Nationality
Israeli-American 1
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Harold Pender Award 2
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Gödel Prize 2
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Grace Murray Hopper Award 2
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L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science 2
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Turing Award 2
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ACM Fellow 2
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IACR Fellow 2
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IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award 2
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BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2
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Benjamin Franklin Medal 2
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Athena Lecturer 2
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In Field

Cryptography, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Shafi Goldwasser

Invented

Zero-Knowledge Proof, Concepts

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."

Long-Form Articles

Provable security and zero-knowledge proofs: how Goldwasser reframed cryptography, Articles
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Is Discussed By

Turing Award

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Member Of

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Nationality

Israel

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United States

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1. Wikipedia: Shafi Goldwasser
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  • Lead section
    Shafrira Goldwasser (Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר; born November 14, 1959) is an Israeli-American computer scientist.
  • Infobox, Born
    November 14, 1959
  • introduction, first sentence
    Shafrira Goldwasser (Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר; born November 14, 1959) is an Israeli-American computer scientist.
  • In Field: Cryptography, contributions section
    pioneered the field of provable security, which laid the mathematical foundations that made modern cryptography possible.
  • In Group: Applied Cryptography, lead sentence: Shafrira Goldwasser (Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר; born November 14, 1959) is an Israeli-American computer scientist.
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2. Wikidata: Shafi Goldwasser
Wikidata Q11609, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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