Manuel Blum

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Turing Award laureate computer scientist human theoretical computer scientist

Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan-American computer scientist and Turing Award laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to computational complexity theory and cryptography.

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Turing Award laureate → computer scientist → human → theoretical computer scientist →
academicDegree	PhD in Mathematics →
awardReceived	Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences → Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery → Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences → Guggenheim Fellowship → Turing Award →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America → Venezuela →
dateOfBirth	1938-04-26 →
doctoralAdvisor	Marvin Minsky →
educatedAt	Caracas → Massachusetts Institute of Technology →
employer	Carnegie Mellon University → Massachusetts Institute of Technology → University of California, Berkeley →
ethnicGroup	Jewish →
familyName	Blum →
fieldOfWork	computational complexity theory → computer science → consciousness research → cryptography → learning theory → neural networks → privacy → program verification → theory of computation →
givenName	Manuel →
knownFor	foundational contributions to computational complexity theory → foundational contributions to cryptography → work on interactive proofs → work on program checking and verification → work on pseudorandomness →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → Association for Computing Machinery → National Academy of Sciences →
notableStudent	Lenore Blum → Shafi Goldwasser → Silvio Micali →
notableWork	Blum axioms → Blum complexity measures → Blum integer → Blum–Blum–Shub pseudorandom number generator → Blum–Micali pseudorandom number generator → CAPTCHA concept (with collaborators) →
placeOfBirth	Caracas →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Lenore Blum →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ronald L. Rivest → Shafi Goldwasser → Silvio Micali →	doctoralAdvisor
Randomness and Computation →	academicAdvisor