Michael Ben-Or
Michael Ben-Or · Technology & Engineering
Israeli inventor of randomized asynchronous consensus; Dijkstra Prize (2015, 2023)
1949, Israel
Israel · United States
Michael Ben-Or is recognized among Israeli contributors to Technology & Engineering — Israeli inventor of randomized asynchronous consensus; Dijkstra Prize (2015, 2023)
Michael Ben-Or is an Israeli computer scientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem whose 1983 paper introduced the first completely asynchronous randomized consensus protocol, a foundational result in fault-tolerant distributed computing, earning a Dijkstra Prize (2015). He shared a second Dijkstra Prize (2023) for co-founding information-theoretic secure multiparty computation. He is an Israeli Jew.
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Israeli inventor of randomized asynchronous consensus; Dijkstra Prize (2015, 2023)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize
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