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Anna Karlin

Who

Anna Karlin · Technology & Engineering

What

Theorist of online and randomized algorithms for web caching; Kanellakis Award (2020)

When

2020

Where

USA

Biography

Anna Karlin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Theorist of online and randomized algorithms for web caching; Kanellakis Award (2020)

How & why

Karlin is an American theoretical computer scientist, the Microsoft Professor at the University of Washington, known for the design and analysis of online, probabilistic and randomized algorithms, including foundational work on algorithms for web caching and algorithmic game theory. She received the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award in 2020 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She is Jewish, the daughter of the mathematician Samuel Karlin.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

Contributions & Sources

Theorist of online and randomized algorithms for web caching; Kanellakis Award (2020)

2020

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award