Shimon Even

Shimon Even

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name = Shimon Even


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field = Computer Science, Cryptography
work_institution = Technion,
Weizmann Institute of Science
alma_mater = Harvard University
doctoral_advisor = Hao Wang
doctoral_students = Oded Goldreich
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Shimon Even ( _he. 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 had been a member of the Computer Science Department of the Technion since 1974. Shimon Even was the PhD advisor of Oded Goldreich, a prominent cryptographer.

Books

* "Algorithmic Combinatorics", Macmillan, 1973.
* "Graph Algorithms", Computer Science Press, 1979. ISBN 0-7167-8044-5.

See also

* Oblivious transfer

External links

* [http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/s_even.html Memorial page]
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/e/Even:Shimon.html Bibliography on DBLP]
* [http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~reuven/EVEN/even_tree.pdf Prof. Even's "genealogy" (PDF)]
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