David Peleg ( he, דוד פלג) is an

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computer scientist. He is a professor at the

Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli unive ...

, holding the Norman D. Cohen Professorial Chair of Computer Sciences, and the present dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in Weizmann Institute. His main research interests are algorithms, computer networks, and distributed computing. Many of his papers deal with a combination of all three. He received his

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from the Weizmann Institute under the supervision of

David Harel David Harel ( he, דוד הראל; born 12 April 1950) is a computer scientist, currently serving as President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has been on the faculty of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel since 1980, ...

. He has published numerous papers and a book, chaired leading conferences in computer science, and is an editor of several scientific journals.

Awards and honors

In 2008, he was awarded the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing along with

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for their 1990 paper “Sparse partitions.” In 2011, he won the SIROCCO

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, awarded annually at the SIROCCO conference. In 2017 he became a

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.. Since 2020, Peleg is editor-in-chief of the journal

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Selected publications

Dijkstra Prize The Edsger W. Dijkstra Paper Prize in Distributed Computing is given for outstanding papers on the principles of distributed computing, whose significance and impact on the theory and/or practice of distributed computing has been evident for at lea ...

2008. *

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References

David Peleg's home page
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