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Eli Gafni

Who

Eli Gafni · Technology & Engineering

What

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

When

Tel Aviv, Israel

Where

Israel · United States

Biography

Eli Gafni is recognized among Israeli contributors to Technology & Engineering — Israeli-American theorist of asynchronous computability; Dijkstra Prize (2017)

How & why

Gafni is an Israeli-American computer scientist at UCLA whose foundational work on distributed and asynchronous computing reshaped the theory of what concurrent systems can compute. With Elizabeth Borowsky he proved key results on asynchronous computability, for which the pair received the 2017 Dijkstra Prize. Born in Tel Aviv, he studied at the Technion before completing his doctorate at MIT.

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

Contributions & Sources

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

2017

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