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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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 (born October 13, 1954) is an Italian computer scientist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founder of Algorand, a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol.
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October 13, 1954
Infobox: awards
Gödel Prize (1993) Turing Award (2012) ACM Fellow (2017)
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Blum-Micali algorithm Goldwasser-Micali cryptosystem GMR algorithm Zero-knowledge proof Claw-free permutation Pseudorandom Functions Peppercoin Algorand Semantic security Verifiable secret sharing
- In Group: Applied Cryptography, lead sentence: Silvio Micali (born October 13, 1954) is an Italian computer scientist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founder of Algo
- In Field: Cryptography, Infobox field and known_for, lead paragraph
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