Dijkstra Prize (distributed computing)

Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize (distributed computing) documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 46% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

46%of all recipients are Jewish

20 documented recipients

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Philip Spira2004

Co-author of the distributed minimum-spanning-tree algorithm; Dijkstra Prize (2004)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Robert Shostak2005

Co-formulated the Byzantine Generals problem of fault-tolerant computing; Dijkstra Prize (2005)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Baruch Awerbuch2008

Israeli pioneer of distributed network algorithms; Dijkstra Prize (2008)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

David Peleg2008

Israeli founder of the locality theory of distributed computing (Weizmann Institute); Dijkstra Prize (2008, 2026)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Sam Toueg2010

Introduced unreliable failure detectors for distributed consensus; Dijkstra Prize (2010)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Hagit Attiya2011

Israeli authority on shared-memory distributed computing (Technion); Dijkstra Prize (2011)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Amotz Bar-Noy2011

Israeli computer scientist of distributed and mobile computing; Dijkstra Prize (2011)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Danny Dolev2011

Israeli pioneer of Byzantine fault tolerance (Hebrew University); Dijkstra Prize (2011)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Dan Touitou2012

Israeli co-inventor of software transactional memory; Dijkstra Prize (2012)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Nati Linial2013

Israeli theorist of locality in distributed graph algorithms; Dijkstra Prize (2013)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Michael Ben-Or2015

Israeli inventor of randomized asynchronous consensus; Dijkstra Prize (2015, 2023)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Alon Itai2016

Israeli computer scientist (Technion); Dijkstra Prize (2016) for symmetry breaking in distributed systems

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Elizabeth Borowsky2017

Co-developed the topological theory of set consensus; Dijkstra Prize (2017)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Eli Gafni2017

Israeli-American theorist of asynchronous computability; Dijkstra Prize (2017)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Bowen Alpern2018

Co-authored 'Defining Liveness', the formal basis of program correctness; Dijkstra Prize (2018)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Fred Schneider2018

Formalized safety and liveness in concurrent systems; Dijkstra Prize (2018)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Scott Smolka2021

Pioneer of probabilistic process algebra; Dijkstra Prize (2021)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Tal Rabin2023

Israeli cryptographer of secure multiparty computation; Dijkstra Prize (2023)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize

Liah Kor2026

Israeli computer scientist; Dijkstra Prize (2026)

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Amos Korman2026

Israeli computer scientist bridging distributed computing and biology; Dijkstra Prize (2026)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize