Prof. Adi Shamir

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Prof. Adi Shamir

Hebrew: עדי שמיר
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Birthplace: Tel Aviv, Israel
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Son of Private and Hannah Shamir
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Occupation: Israeli cryptographer
Managed by: Evvy (Evdokia) Mankowitz
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About Prof. Adi Shamir

Adi Shamir (Hebrew: עדי שמיר‎; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme (along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat), one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science.

Awards:

  • 1983 The Israeli Mathematical Society Erdos Prize
  • 1986 IEEE Baker Prize
  • 1990 UAP Scientific Prize, France
  • 1992 The Vatican's Pontifical Academy PIUS X1 Gold Medal
  • 1997 Association for Computing Machinery, Kanellakis Prize
  • 1998 elected, member of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • 2000 IEEE Kobayashi Computers and Communications Prize
  • 2002 Association for Computing Machinery, Turing Award
  • 2005 elected, Foreign Member of The National Academy of Sciences (United Stated)
  • 2008 Israel Prize, Israel
  • 2008 Okawa Prize, Japan
  • 2008 NEC Prize, Japan
  • 2012 Grand Medaille of the French Academie des sciences, France
  • 2017 Japan Prize, Japan
  • 2018 elected, Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) (United Kingdom)
  • 2019 elected, Member of the American Philosophical Society

About עדי שמיר (עברית)

עדי שמיר פרופסור במחלקה למדעי המחשב ולמתמטיקה שימושית במכון ויצמן למדע – הוא מבכירי מדעני המחשב בעולם ומומחה ראשון במעלה בתחומים של הצפנת מידע ופענוח. הוא היה בין מפתחי שיטת ״אר אס איי״ ששינתה את פניה של תקשורת המחשבים בעולם והייתה לנדבך יסוד במסחר אלקטרוני ובאבטחת מידע. גם לאחר הפיתוח שהקנה לו שם עולמי, המשיך שמיר לשקוד על פיתוחן ועל שכלולן של שיטות פענוח, הצפנה ואימות

פרופ' שמיר מתגורר ברחובות. הוא נשוי ללאה ואב לאוהד, לנעמה ולמאיה

Awards:

  • 1983 The Israeli Mathematical Society Erdos Prize
  • 1986 IEEE Baker Prize
  • 1990 UAP Scientific Prize, France
  • 1992 The Vatican's Pontifical Academy PIUS X1 Gold Medal
  • 1997 Association for Computing Machinery, Kanellakis Prize
  • 1998 elected, member of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • 2000 IEEE Kobayashi Computers and Communications Prize
  • 2002 Association for Computing Machinery, Turing Award
  • 2005 elected, Foreign Member of The National Academy of Sciences (United Stated)
  • 2008 Israel Prize, Israel
  • 2008 Okawa Prize, Japan
  • 2008 NEC Prize, Japan
  • 2012 Grand Medaille of the French Academie des sciences, France
  • 2017 Japan Prize, Japan
  • 2018 elected, Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) (United Kingdom)
  • 2019 elected, Member of the American Philosophical Society
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Prof. Adi Shamir's Timeline

1952
July 6, 1952
Tel Aviv, Israel