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Baruch Awerbuch

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Baruch Awerbuch · Technology & Engineering

What

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

When

1958

Where

Israel · United States

Biography

Baruch Awerbuch is recognized among Israeli contributors to Technology & Engineering — Israeli pioneer of distributed network algorithms; Dijkstra Prize (2008)

How & why

Awerbuch is an Israeli-American computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University who, with David Peleg, won the 2008 Dijkstra Prize for pioneering work on sparse partitions in distributed network algorithms. Educated at the Technion in Haifa, he is Israeli and of Jewish background. His results are foundational to the theory of distributed and network computation.

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

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

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