Shimon Even ( he, שמעון אבן; June 15, 1935 – May 1, 2004) was an Israeli
computer science
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researcher. His main topics of interest included
algorithm
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s,
graph theory
In mathematics, graph theory is the study of ''graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of '' vertices'' (also called ''nodes'' or ''points'') which are conne ...
and
cryptography
Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adver ...
. He was a member of the Computer Science Department at the
Technion since 1974. Shimon Even was the PhD advisor of
Oded Goldreich
Oded Goldreich ( he, עודד גולדרייך; b. 1957) is a professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His research interests lie within the theory of computation ...
, a prominent cryptographer.
Books
* ''Algorithmic Combinatorics'', Macmillan, 1973.
* ''Graph Algorithms'', Computer Science Press, 1979. .
See also
*
Oblivious transfer
External links
Memorial pageProf. Even's "genealogy" (PDF)*
1935 births
2004 deaths
Modern cryptographers
Graph theorists
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli cryptographers
Harvard University alumni
Even Shimon
Burials at Yarkon Cemetery
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