Cynthia Dwork

Cynthia Dwork (born 1958) is a distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research who works on distributed computing, cryptography, and e-mail spam prevention.

She received the Dijkstra Prize in 2007 for her work on consensus problems together with Nancy Lynch and Larry Stockmeyer.^[1][2] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2008,^[3][4] and as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.^[5]

Dwork received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1983. Her advisor was John Hopcroft.

Publications

• Dwork, Cynthia; Lynch, Nancy; Stockmeyer, Larry (1988). "Consensus in the presence of partial synchrony". Journal of the ACM 35 (2): 288–323. doi:10.1145/42282.42283  — this paper received the Dijkstra Prize in 2007.

Notes

1. ^ PODC web site: Dijkstra Prize 2007.
2. ^ Bortnikov, Edward (2007). "Review of DISC '07". ACM SIGACT News 38 (4): 49–53. doi:10.1145/1345189.1386170. ISSN 0163-5700. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1345189.1386170 .
3. ^ Academy Announces 2008 Class of Fellows.
4. ^ Cynthia Dwork '79 elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
5. ^ National Academy of Engineering: Dr. Cynthia Dwork.

References

• "Cynthia Dwork". Mathematics Genealogy Project. http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=92899. Retrieved 5 June 2009. 
• Dwork, Cynthia (1983). "Bounds on Fundamental Problems in Parallel and Distributed Computation". http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=911152 . Phd thesis, Cornell University.
• "Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2002 Biographies". Microsoft Research Events. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/fs2002/bios.aspx. Retrieved 5 June 2009. 
• Stevenson, Reed (2 May 2004). "Microsoft project aims to make spammers pay for spam". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2004-02-05-ms-pennyblack-spamplan_x.htm. Retrieved 5 June 2009. 
• Takahashi, Dean (25 December 2006). "Time to take privacy technology seriously". The Seattle Times. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003493658_btview25.html. Retrieved 5 June 2009. 
• Becker, David (28 July 2000). "Short Take: Compaq hires cryptography expert". CNET News. http://news.cnet.com/Short-Take-Compaq-hires-cryptography-expert/2110-1001_3-243792.html. Retrieved 5 June 2009. 
• Greengard, Samuel (2008). "Privacy matters". Communications of the ACM 51 (9): 17–18. doi:10.1145/1378727.1378734 .

External links

• Cynthia Dwork's home page.
• Cynthia Dwork's publications in DBLP.
• Microsoft Research: Database Privacy project.
• Microsoft Research – News: Women in Research – Cynthia Dwork: Protecting Your Privacy, by Suzanne Ross.

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