Hagit Attiya () is an Israeli

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who holds the Harry W. Labov and Charlotte Ullman Labov Academic Chair of Computer Science at the

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. Her research is in the area of

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Education and career

Attiya was educated at the

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, earning a B.S. in mathematics and computer science in 1981, a master's degree from the same university in 1983, and a doctorate in 1987, under the supervision of Danny Dolev.Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2014-07-07. After postdoctoral studies at the

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, she joined the Technion faculty in 1990. She has been the

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of the

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'' since 2008.

Awards and honors

Attiya became a

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of the

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in 2009 for "contributions to distributed and

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". In 2011, Attiya and her co-authors Danny Dolev and Amotz Bar-Noy won the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their work on implementing shared memory using

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, published in the

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in 1995. She was also the recipient of the

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Memorial Award from Yad Hanadiv in 2011.Michael Bruno Memorial Award: Hagit Attiya, Computer Sciences 2011
Yad Hanadiv, retrieved 2014-07-07.

Selected publications

Research papers

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Books

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References

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Attiya, Hagit Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Israeli computer scientists Israeli women computer scientists Researchers in distributed computing Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 2009 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Place of birth missing (living people)