Michael Ben-Or () is an Israeli computer scientist , the Jean and Helena Alfassa Professor of computer science at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

. His research interests include Theoretical Computer Science, Distributed Computation, Fault-Tolerance, Cryptography and Quantum Computation.Michael Ben-Or
/ref> He received his PhD in Mathematics from the Hebrew University in 1982. Three of his papers received the

Dijkstra Prize The ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) is an academic conference in the field of distributed computing organised annually by the Association for Computing Machinery (special interest groups SIGACT and SIGOPS). Scope and ...

in Distributed Computing: *2023: For the papers, "for introducing Information-Theoretic Secure Multiparty Computations and showing how to achieve maximal resilience to malicious adversaries while providing unconditional security.":Dijkstra Prize
/ref>2023 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing
/ref> **Michael Ben-Or,

Shafi Goldwasser Shafrira Goldwasser (; born 1959) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. A winner of the Turing Award in 2012, she is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a professor o ...

and

Avi Wigderson Avi Wigderson (; born 9 September 1956) is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician. He is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America ...

for "Completeness Theorems for Non-Cryptographic Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computation" in Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 1988, pages 1-10. **

Tal Rabin Tal Rabin (; born 1962) is a computer scientist and Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania and a Director at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She was previously the head of research at the Algorand Foundation a ...

and Michael Ben-Or for "Verifiable Secret Sharing and Multiparty Protocols with Honest Majority" in Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), Seattle, Washington, USA, May 1989, pages 73-85 *2015: Michael Ben-Or, "Another Advantage of Free Choice: Completely Asynchronous Agreement Protocols", in Proceedings of the Second ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, pages 27-30, August 1983

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