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Nir Shavit

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Nir Shavit · Technology & Engineering

What

Israeli expert in multiprocessor computing; Gödel Prize (2004)

When

1959, Israel

Where

Israel · United States

Biography

Nir Shavit is recognized among Israeli contributors to Technology & Engineering — Israeli expert in multiprocessor computing; Gödel Prize (2004)

How & why

Shavit, an Israeli Jewish computer scientist at Tel Aviv University and MIT, is a leader in multiprocessor and concurrent computing. He shared the 2004 Gödel Prize for applying algebraic topology to shared-memory computability and co-introduced software transactional memory, receiving the Dijkstra Prize.

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

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Israeli expert in multiprocessor computing; Gödel Prize (2004)

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