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Goldwasser is a co-inventor of zero-knowledge proofs, which probabilistically and interactively demonstrate the validity of an assertion without conveying any additional knowledge, and are a key tool in the design of cryptographic protocols.
Shafrira Goldwasser is an American-Israeli computer scientist. She is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Shafi Goldwasser has made fundamental contributions to cryptography, computational complexity, computational number theory and probabilistic algorithms. Her career includes many landmark papers which have initiated entire subfields of computer science.
Shafi Goldwasser (M.S.’81, Ph.D.’84 CS), director of Berkeley’s Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, is one of only three women to have won the A.M. Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of computing.
Computer scientist Shafi Goldwasser. Courtesy of the Weizmann Institute via Wikimedia Commons . Shafi Goldwasser was honored with the Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, for her work in revolutionizing the field of cryptography.
Mar 13, 2013 · Weizmann's Prof. Shafi Goldwasser has received the Turing Award, the Nobel Prize of the computing world. The third Weizmann scientist and third woman to win the award, she also holds a post at MIT, where she collaborates with co-recipient Prof. Silvio Micali.
Aug 21, 2019 · Shafi Goldwasser. The number theory expert who helped revolutionize cryptography. When Shafi Goldwasser chose to focus on cryptography and algorithmic number theory as a new graduate...
Nov 23, 2017 · Today is the 23rd of November 2017 and I’m here in Rehovot at the Weizmann Institute of Science together with Shafi Goldwasser, who is being interviewed as part of the ACM Turing Award Winners project. Hi, Shafi.
Feb 12, 2021 · MIT Professor Shafi Goldwasser has been named the laureate for North America in this year’s 2021 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards, an honor shared with only five scientists every year.
Now Professor Goldwasser leads the Cryptography and Information Security Group and the Complexity Theory Group at CSAIL. Her current research is focused on the development of tools which allow for the maximal use of modern computation while preserving the basic right to be left alone.
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