Roger Wattenhofer, born in 1969, is a Swiss computer scientist, active in the field of distributed computing,

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, and algorithms. He is a professor at

ETH Zurich (colloquially) , former_name = eidgenössische polytechnische Schule , image = ETHZ.JPG , image_size = , established = , type = Public , budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021) , rector = Günther Dissertori , president = Joël Mesot , ac ...

(Switzerland) since 2001. He has published numerous research articles in computer science and a book on

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. In 2012, Wattenhofer won the

Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing The Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing (also called SIROCCO award) is an award presented annually at the conference International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO) to a living individual (or ind ...

, awarded annually at the SIROCCO conference. Together with Christian Decker in 2014, he uncovered that nearly 850,000 of the

s lost by Mt. Gox could not have been stolen by malleability attacks, as claimed by Mt. Gox. In 2017, he appeared in a movie about the

Blockchain A blockchain is a type of distributed ledger technology (DLT) that consists of growing lists of records, called ''blocks'', that are securely linked together using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a ...

Selected publications

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References

External links

Roger Wattenhofer's home page

Mathematics Genealogy Project entry
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wattenhofer, Roger Living people 1969 births Swiss computer scientists Academic staff of ETH Zurich