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Manuel Blum is a United States computer scientist and university teacher born in Caracas in 1938. He is married to Lenore Blum and has a child named Avrim Blum. His professional career includes teaching positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon University. He currently resides in Pittsburgh.
Blum received his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his doctoral advisor was Marvin Minsky. He has supervised doctoral students including Luis von Ahn, Gary Miller, Leonard Adleman, and Michael Sipser. His work in computer science has earned him the Turing Award and ACM Fellow status. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Association for Computing Machinery.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Manuel
- Family name
- Blum
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Caracas
- Spouse
- Lenore Blum
- Child
- Avrim Blum
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employer
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Doctoral advisor
- Marvin Minsky
- Field of work
- computer science
- Official website
- www.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum
- Image
- Blum manuel lenore avrim.jpg
- Residence
- Pittsburgh
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- date of birth
- 1938-04-26
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Commons category
- Manuel Blum
- Erdős number
- 2
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