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Adi Shamir
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Adi Shamir was born in 1952. He has an Erdős number of 2.
He is recognized in the Royal Society collection. He is also recognized in the Turing Award collection. Additionally, he is recognized in the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection. He is recognized in the Israel Prize collection. Finally, he is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1952-07-06 ) July 6, 1952 (age 73) , Tel Aviv , Israel
- Education
- Tel Aviv University ( BSc ), Weizmann Institute of Science ( MSc , PhD )
- Known for
- RSA , Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme , differential cryptanalysis , Shamir's secret sharing
- Awards
- Erdős Prize (1983) Weizmann Prize (1987) Paris Kanellakis Award (1996) Turing Award (2002) Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (2005) Israel Prize (2008) Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2018) Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2024)
- Fields
- Cryptography
- Institutions
- Weizmann Institute , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Thesis
- The fixedpoints of recursive definitions (1976)
- Doctoral advisor
- Zohar Manna
- Doctoral students
- Eli Biham , Uriel Feige , Amos Fiat
- Website
- www .wisdom .weizmann .ac .il /profile /scientists /shamir-profile .html
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Described at
Adi Shamir - Les associ�s �trangers �lus en 2015 - Brochure de pr�sentation
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Adi
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Place of birth
- Tel Aviv
- Occupation
- computer scientist
- Educated at
- Weizmann Institute of Science
- Employer
- Tel Aviv University
- Languages spoken
- French
- Doctoral advisor
- Zohar Manna
- Field of work
- informatics
- Image
- Adi Shamir 2009.jpg
- Work location
- Weizmann Institute of Science
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- name in native language
- עדי שמיר
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Commons category
- Adi Shamir
- date of birth
- 1952-07-06
- Erdős number
- 2
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Encyclopedic overview
Adi Shamir (Hebrew: עדי שמיר; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme (along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat), one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science. In 2002, Ron Rivest, Len Adleman, and he won the ACM Turing Award.
Biography
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