Micha Sharir
Micha Sharir · Technology & Engineering
Israeli pioneer of computational geometry; Knuth Prize laureate (2025)
1950, Tel Aviv, Israel
Israel (Tel Aviv University)
Micha Sharir is recognized among Israeli contributors to Technology & Engineering — Israeli pioneer of computational geometry; Knuth Prize laureate (2025)
Born in Tel Aviv, Sharir is an Israeli Jewish mathematician and computer scientist and a professor at Tel Aviv University. With Jack Schwartz he pioneered the algorithmic study of robot motion planning in the 1980s, and he became one of the founders of computational and combinatorial geometry, authoring hundreds of influential papers on arrangements, incidences and geometric algorithms. His work underlies fields from robotics to computer graphics; he received the Knuth Prize in 2025.
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Israeli pioneer of computational geometry; Knuth Prize laureate (2025)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth Prize
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