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Alon Itai

Who

Alon Itai · Technology & Engineering

What

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

When

2016

Where

Israel

Biography

Alon Itai is recognized among Israeli contributors to Technology & Engineering — Israeli computer scientist (Technion); Dijkstra Prize (2016) for symmetry breaking in distributed systems

How & why

Alon Itai is an Israeli computer scientist at the Technion who shared the 2016 Dijkstra Prize for a foundational 1986 paper giving a fast, simple randomized parallel algorithm for the maximal independent set problem, a key result on symmetry breaking in distributed and parallel computing. His work influenced the theory of randomized and distributed algorithms. He is an Israeli Jewish scientist.

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

Contributions & Sources

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

2016

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