Hagit Attiya is an Israeli

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who holds the Harry W. Labov and Charlotte Ullman Labov Academic Chair of Computer Science at the

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology ( he, הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion ...

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. Her research is in the area of

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Education and career

Attiya was educated at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

, earning a B.S. in mathematics and computer science in 1981, a master's degree from the same university in 1983, and a doctorate in 1987, under the supervision of

Danny Dolev Daniel (Danny) Dolev is an Israeli computer scientist known for his research in cryptography and distributed computing. He holds the Berthold Badler Chair in Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a member of the scientific c ...

.Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2014-07-07. After postdoctoral studies at the

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, she joined the Technion faculty in 1990. She has been the

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of the

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'' since 2008.

Awards and honors

Attiya became a

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of the

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in 2009 for "contributions to distributed and parallel computing". In 2011, Attiya and her co-authors

and Amotz Bar-Noy won the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their work on implementing

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using

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, published in the

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in 1995. She was also the recipient of the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from

Yad Hanadiv Yad Hanadiv (The Rothschild Foundation) is a Rothschild family philanthropic foundation in Israel. Goals and objectives Yad Hanadiv defines its mission as: Dedicated to creating resources for advancing Israel as a healthy, vibrant, democratic so ...

in 2011.Michael Bruno Memorial Award: Hagit Attiya, Computer Sciences 2011
Yad Hanadiv, retrieved 2014-07-07.

Selected publications

Research papers

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Books

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References

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Attiya, Hagit Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Israeli computer scientists Israeli women computer scientists Researchers in distributed computing Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Place of birth missing (living people)