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Adi Shamir
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Adi Shamir is an American person born on July 6, 1952. He is recognized in the collections of the Royal Society, the American Academy Arts Sciences, the Turing Award, the National Inventors Hall Of Fame, and the Israel Prize. His Erdős number is 2.
Shamir is the author of the work "The Fixedpoints of recursive definitions." Crossref data indicates he has five works. He is referenced by 521 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- The Fixedpoints of recursive definitions
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems
· 1978 · cited 11,760x
- How to share a secret
· 1979 · cited 10,496x
- Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018
· 2018 · cited 5,838x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
- International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer/American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society International Multidisciplinary Classification of Lung Adenocarcinoma
· 2011 · cited 3,867x
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
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
Show 7 more facts
- 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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adi Shamir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.