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Silvio Micali

Italian-American computer scientist (born )

Silvio Micali (born October 13, ) is an Italiancomputer scientist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founder of Algorand, a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol. Micali's research at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory centers on cryptography and information security.[4][5]

In , he received the Turing Award for his work in cryptography.[6][1]

Personal life

Micali graduated in mathematics at La Sapienza University of Rome in and earned a PhD degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in ;[7] for research supervised by Manuel Blum.[2] Micali has been on the faculty of MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department since He has also served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, and Tsinghua University.[8] His research interests are cryptography, zero knowledge, pseudorandom generation, secure protocols, and mechanism design.

Career

Micali is best known for some of his fundamental early work on public-key cryptosystems, pseudorandom functions, digital signatures, oblivious transfer, secure multiparty computation, and is one of the co-inventors of zero-knowledge proofs.[9] His former doctoral students include Mihir Bellare, Bonnie Berger, Shai Halevi, Rafail Ostrovsky, and Phillip Rogaway.[2][3]

In , Micali co-founded CoreStreet Ltd, a software company originally based in Cambridge, Massachusetts which implemented Micali's patents involving checking the status of digital certificates (mainly applicable to large enterprise and government-sized digital and physical identity projects). Micali served as Chief Scientist at CoreStreet. CoreStreet was bought by ActivIdentity in [10]

In the early s, Micali also founded Peppercoin, a micropayments system which was acquired in In , he founded Algorand.[11]

Awards and honors

Micali won the Gödel Prize in [12] He received the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics in [13] In , he was selected to be a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[14] He received the Turing Award[1] for the year along with Shafi Goldwasser for their work in the field of cryptography.[15] In the University of Salerno acknowledged his studies by giving him an honoris causa degree in Computer Science. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in [16]

References

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  2. ^ abcdefghSilvio Micali at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  4. ^Silvio Micali at DBLP Bibliography Server
  5. ^Silvio Micali author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
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  8. ^"Sylvio Micali". Retrieved 14 August
  9. ^Blum, M.; Feldman, P.; Micali, S. (). "Non-interactive zero-knowledge and its applications". Proceedings of the twentieth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing - STOC '88. p.&#; doi/ ISBN&#;. S2CID&#;
  10. ^"CoreStreet Founder Wins Award".
  11. ^"Silvio Micali | MIT CSAIL". . Retrieved
  12. ^" Gödel Prize". . Archived from the original on Retrieved
  13. ^"RSA conference award for mathematics". . Archived from the original on Retrieved
  14. ^"MIT CSAIL Theory of Computation". . Retrieved
  15. ^"Goldwasser, Micali Receive ACM Turing Award for Advances in Cryptography". ACM. Archived from the original on 16 March Retrieved 13 March
  16. ^ACM Recognizes Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, December 11, , retrieved