Shimon Even (Hebrew: שמעון אבן; June 15, 1935 – May 1, 2004) was an Israeli computer science researcher. His main topics of interest included algorithms, graph theory and cryptography. He was a member of the Computer Science Department at the Technion since 1974. Shimon Even was the PhD advisor of Oded Goldreich, a prominent cryptographer.
Shimon Even | |
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| Born | June 15, 1935 |
| Died | May 1, 2004 (aged 68) |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science, Cryptography |
| Institutions | Technion, Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Doctoral advisor | Hao Wang |
| Doctoral students | Oded Goldreich, Baruch Awerbuch |
Books
edit- Algorithmic Combinatorics, Macmillan, 1973.
- Graph Algorithms, Computer Science Press, 1979. ISBN 0-7167-8044-5.
See also
editExternal links
edit- Memorial page
- Bibliography on DBLP
- Prof. Even's "genealogy" (PDF)
- Shimon Even at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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