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Technology & Engineering

Reuven Rubinstein

Who

Reuven Rubinstein · Technology & Engineering

What

Computer & information scientist

When

1938 — 2012, Israel

Where

Israel (Technion)

Biography

Reuven Rubinstein is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist

How & why

Reuven Y. Rubinstein was an Israeli computer scientist and operations researcher at the Technion who developed the cross-entropy method, a versatile Monte Carlo technique for rare-event simulation and combinatorial optimization now widely used across engineering and machine learning. He authored foundational texts on simulation and stochastic optimization. He was Jewish and Israeli.

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Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS

Contributions & Sources

Computer & information scientist

Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS