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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 ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Blum Manual Blum] @ Wikipedia

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Karl Jones: Created page with "'''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 foundat..."