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Cynthia Dwork

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Cynthia Dwork (born June 27, 1958) is an American computer scientist renowned for her contributions to cryptography, distributed computing and algorithmic fairness, and is one of the inventors of differential privacy and proof of work. She works at Harvard University, where she is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Affiliated Professor at Harvard Law School and Harvard's Department of Statistics.

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1958 1
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1958-06-27 1
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Paris Kanellakis Award 1
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Knuth Prize 1
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Dijkstra Prize 1
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Gödel Prize 1
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Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship 1
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IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal 1
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ACM Fellow 1
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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1
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National Medal of Science 1
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Japan Prize 1
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  • In Group: Human and Societal Aspects of Security and Privacy, lead sentence: Cynthia Dwork (born June 27, 1958) is an American computer scientist renowned for her contributions to cryptography, distributed computing, and algori
  • In Field: Cryptography, Lead paragraph
  • In Field: Distributed Computing, Lead paragraph
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