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Michael Mitzenmacher

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Michael Mitzenmacher · Technology & Engineering

What

Analyzed balanced allocations and Bloom filters used across the internet; Kanellakis Award (2020)

When

1969

Where

United States

Prizes and awards
Biography

Michael Mitzenmacher is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Analyzed balanced allocations and Bloom filters used across the internet; Kanellakis Award (2020)

How & why

Mitzenmacher is an American computer scientist and professor at Harvard whose analysis of randomized algorithms — including the 'power of two choices' in balanced allocations and the theory of Bloom filters and hashing used across internet systems — earned the 2020 Paris Kanellakis Award. He is listed among Jewish computer scientists by the reference site Jinfo; his religious background is not otherwise widely documented.

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

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Analyzed balanced allocations and Bloom filters used across the internet; Kanellakis Award (2020)

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