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Shafi Goldwasser

1958 - Today

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Shafrira Goldwasser (Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר; born 1959) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the former director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, and co-founder and chief scientist of Duality Technologies. In 2012, she won the ACM Turing Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2024). Shafi Goldwasser is the 152nd most popular computer scientist (down from 119th in 2024), the 8,719th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,388th in 2019) and the 88th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Shafi Goldwasser ranks 152 out of 245. Before her are Phil Zimmermann, Robert Tarjan, John L. Hennessy, Michael Stonebraker, Jaron Lanier, and Kateryna Yushchenko. After her are Raj Reddy, Bertrand Meyer, Hal Abelson, Kent Beck, Elizabeth J. Feinler, and Annie Easley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Shafi Goldwasser ranks 323. Before her are Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Michael Flatley, Georgi Slavkov, Habib Koité, Luiz Carlos Ferreira, and Sakine Cansız. After her are Olivier Grouillard, Jeffrey Williams, Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, Jean-Max Bellerive, Tomatito, and Marc Randolph.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shafi Goldwasser ranks 8,723 out of 20,380. Before her are Rachel Chagall (1952), Tom Courtney (1933), Richard Jewell (1962), Matthew Gray Gubler (1980), Kim Stanley (1925), Leelee Sobieski (1983), Cass Gilbert (1859), and Marco Beltrami (1966). After her are Ann Bannon (1932), Ralph Meeker (1920), William Beebe (1877), and Bobby Timmons (1935).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Shafi Goldwasser ranks 88. Before her are Jack Dorsey (1976), Phil Zimmermann (1954), Robert Tarjan (1948), John L. Hennessy (1952), Michael Stonebraker (1943), and Jaron Lanier (1960). After her are Kent Beck (1961), Elizabeth J. Feinler (1931), Annie Easley (1933), Henriette Avram (1919), James H. Clark (1944), and Brewster Kahle (1960).

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