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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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AwardJosiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship 1 AwardIEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal 1 AwardFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1 AwardNational Medal of Science 1 Connections
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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
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The concept was first proposed by Moni Naor and Cynthia Dwork in 1993 as a way to deter denial-of-service attacks and other service abuses such as spam on a network by requiring some work from a service requester, usually meaning processing time by a computer.
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The concept was first proposed by Moni Naor and Cynthia Dwork in 1993 as a way to deter denial-of-service attacks and other service abuses such as spam on a network by requiring some work from a service requester, usually meaning processing time by a computer.
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