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Manuel Blum
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Manuel Blum

Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan-born American computer scientist who received the 1995 ACM Turing Award

1938 – presentVenezuelaContribution: 1995

Introduction

Manuel Blum (born 1938) is an American computer scientist and recipient of the Turing Award. He has made significant contributions to the fields of cryptography, computational complexity theory, and computational learning theory. Blum's work on the concept of zero-knowledge proofs and his contributions to the theory of interactive proof systems have had a lasting impact on computer science.

Key Achievement

Contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking

Biography

Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan-born American computer scientist who received the 1995 ACM Turing Award "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".

Awards

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science1983
Turing Award1995
IACR Fellow2012
ACM Fellow2020

Institutions

University of California, Berkeley

Carnegie Mellon University

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology