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Manuel Blum
Computer scientist

Manuel Blum

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Advancing computational complexity, cryptography and program checking.

Blum axioms · Blum Blum Shub

Born
26 April 1938
Birthplace
Caracas

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Ada LovelaceRecognising what a programmable machine could do beyond arithmetic.Alan TuringHelping break Enigma and laying foundations for computer science.Grace HopperHelping make computer programming readable in English-like language.

Manuel Blum

Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan-born American computer scientist who received the 1995 Turing Award.

Early life

Education

Studied electrical engineering at MIT and completed a mathematics doctorate under Marvin Minsky in 1964.

Career

  1. Academic career

    Berkeley

    Taught computer science at the University of California.

  2. 1995

    Turing Award

    Received ACM’s award for foundational computing research.

  3. 2001–2018

    Carnegie Mellon

    Held the Bruce Nelson professorship.

Contributions

Blum axioms

Developed an abstract framework for measuring computation.

Blum Blum Shub

Co-developed a pseudorandom-number generator.

Beyond research

Family

Married mathematician and computer scientist Lenore Blum.

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