Shimon Even

Shimon Even
Shimon Even
Born	June 15, 1935; Tel Aviv, British Mandate for Palestine (present-day Israel)
Died	May 1, 2004
Alma mater	Harvard University
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science, Cryptography
Institutions	Technion,; Weizmann Institute of Science
Doctoral advisor	Hao Wang
Doctoral students	Oded Goldreich, Baruch Awerbuch

Shimon Even (Hebrew: שמעון אבן‎; June 15, 1935 – May 1, 2004) was an Israeli computer science researcher. His main topics of interest included algorithms, graph theory and cryptography. He was a member of the Computer Science Department at the Technion since 1974. Shimon Even was the PhD advisor of Oded Goldreich, a prominent cryptographer. During his life, Shimon Even has published more than seventy papers in international journals and wrote two books on Graph Theory. He also supervised fourteen Doctorate students and over twenty Master's students. He was a member of a three-person team that designed in 1965 the first commercial mini-computer in the world, Elbit100, which was the first product of the Elbit Company. He also licensed nine patents.

Education

1. 1959 - B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Technion - I.I.T.

2. 1961 - M.A., Mathematics - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

3. 1963 - Ph.D., Applied Mathematics - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Research Area

His former research area was in Switching and Automata Theory, Combinatorial Algorithms, Complexity Theory, Cryptography. His current research area is in Graph Algorithms, Interconnection and Sorting Networks, Circuit Layout.

Awards and Distinction

1. The Henry Taub Award, 1992.

2. Outstanding Teacher, Technion, 1982 and 1999.

3. Salmon Simon Mani Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996.

4. ETH Distinguished Lecturer, 1994.

5. Keynote speaker, ESA'95.

6. Invited speaker, CIAC' 97.

7. NJIT Distinguished Lecturer, 1997.

8. Visiting Scientist at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies 1996-97 and Summer 1998.

9. Program Committee Member, STOC '97.

10. Editorial board of the Journal of Algorithms and Theory of Computer Systems.

11. Chairman of the Computer Science Department, Technion, 1979-80 and 1986-89.

Honors

1. Fischbach Scholarship (1955-59).

2. The George Farkas Chair in Computer Science (1981).

Positions

1964-1967: Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Math. Dept., Technion.

1967-1969: Visiting Professor, Harvard.

1969-1974: Associate Professor, Weizmann Institute.

1974-2003: Professor, Computer Science Dept., Technion.

Visiting Positions

1. Visiting Scientist at Bellcore, Morristown NJ, 1990.

2. Visiting Professor at Berkeley, BU, Cornell, Duke, Lyngby, Lecce, MIT, Paderborn, Salerno, Stanford, UNAM, USC, and UTD.

3. Visiting Scientist at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and Sperry Rand Research Center.

Books

Algorithmic Combinatorics, Macmillan, 1973.
Graph Algorithms, Computer Science Press, 1979. ISBN 0-7167-8044-5.

External links

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