Adi Shamir - Awards

Awards

Shamir has received a number of awards, including the following:

  • the 2002 ACM Turing Award, together with Rivest and Adleman, in recognition of his contributions to cryptography
  • the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award;
  • the ErdÅ‘s Prize of the Israel Mathematical Society,
  • the 1986 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award
  • the UAP Scientific Prize;
  • The Vatican's PIUS XI Gold Medal;
  • the 2000 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
  • the Israel Prize, in 2008, for computer sciences.
  • an honorary DMath (Doctor of Mathematics) degree from the University of Waterloo

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