Shmuel Winograd

Shmuel Winograd (Hebrew: שמואל וינוגרד‎; born January 4, 1936) is an Israeli-American computer scientist, noted for his contributions to computational complexity. He has proved several major results regarding the computational aspects of arithmetic; his contributions include the Coppersmith–Winograd algorithm and an algorithm for the Fast Fourier Transform.[1]

Shmuel Winograd
Born (1936-01-04) January 4, 1936
Tel Aviv, Israel
Died2019
New York
NationalityIsraeli American
Alma materNew York University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forCoppersmith–Winograd algorithm
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorJacob T. Schwartz

Winograd studied Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his B.S. and M.S. degrees in 1959. He received his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in 1968. He joined the research staff at IBM in 1961, eventually becoming director of the Mathematical Sciences Department there from 1970–1974 and 1980–1994.[1]

Honors

Books
  • Winograd, Shmuel (1980). Arithmetic complexity of computations. CBMS-NSF regional conference series in applied mathematics. 33. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 978-0-89871-163-9.

References
  1. Shmuel Winograd: 1974 W. Wallace McDowell Award Recipient IEEE
  2. Shmuel Winograd IBM Fellow IBM.
  3. Fellows list, IEEE
  4. Winograd, Shmuel, National Academy of Sciences.
  5. Fellows of the ACM Archived 2010-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, ACM.
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