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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/

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1959 1
Birth Date
1959-11-14 1
Nationality
Israeli-American 1
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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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    Shafrira Goldwasser ... (born November 14, 1959) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the former director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, and co-founder and chief scientist of Duality Technologies. In 2012, she and Silvio Micali won the ACM Turing Award.
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    November 14, 1959
  • introduction, first sentence
    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.
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