Manuel Blum
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Manuel Blum (Caracas, 26 April 1938) is a Venezuelan computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".
Career
He worked as a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley until 1999.
In 2002 he was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.
He is currently (May 2016) the Bruce Nelson Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where his wife, Lenore Blum and son, Avrim Blum, are also professors of Computer Science.
See also
- Avrim Blum
- Blum Blum Shub
- CAPTCHA
- Commitment scheme
- Computational complexity theory
- Cryptography
- Gödel numbering
- Lenore Blum
External links
- Manual Blum @ Wikipedia
