Manuel Blum

Manuel Blum

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| education = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]], [[Master of Science|MS]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
| education = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]], [[Master of Science|MS]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
| doctoral_advisor = [[Marvin Minsky]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[Marvin Minsky]]
| doctoral_students = [[Leonard Adleman]]
[[Dana Angluin]]
[[Eric Bach|C. Eric Bach]]
[[Shafi Goldwasser]]
[[Mor Harchol-Balter]]
[[Russell Impagliazzo]]
[[Silvio Micali]]
[[Gary Miller (professor)|Gary Miller]]
[[Moni Naor]]
[[Ronitt Rubinfeld]]
[[Steven Rudich]]
[[Jeffrey Shallit]]
[[Michael Sipser]]
[[Umesh Vazirani]]
[[Vijay Vazirani]]
[[Luis von Ahn]]
[[Ryan Williams (computer scientist)|Ryan Williams]]
| doctoral_students = [[Leonard Adleman]]
[[Dana Angluin]]
[[Eric Bach|C. Eric Bach]]
[[Shafi Goldwasser]]
[[Mor Harchol-Balter]]
[[Russell Impagliazzo]]
[[Silvio Micali]]
[[Gary Miller (computer scientist)|Gary Miller]]
[[Moni Naor]]
[[Ronitt Rubinfeld]]
[[Steven Rudich]]
[[Jeffrey Shallit]]
[[Michael Sipser]]
[[Umesh Vazirani]]
[[Vijay Vazirani]]
[[Luis von Ahn]]
[[Ryan Williams (computer scientist)|Ryan Williams]]
| thesis_title = A Machine-Independent Theory of the Complexity of Recursive Functions
| thesis_title = A Machine-Independent Theory of the Complexity of Recursive Functions
| thesis_year = 1964
| thesis_year = 1964
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Some of his other work includes a protocol for [[Commitment scheme#Coin flipping|flipping a coin over a telephone]], [[median of medians]] (a linear time [[selection algorithm]]), the [[Blum Blum Shub]] [[pseudorandom number generator]], the [[Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem]], and more recently [[captcha|CAPTCHA]]s.Von Ahn, Luis; Blum, Manuel; Hopper, Nicholas J.; Langford, John (May 2003). "[https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/3-540-39200-9_18.pdf CAPTCHA: Using Hard AI Problems for Security]". Proceedings of the [[International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques]] (EUROCRYPT 2003).
Some of his other work includes a protocol for [[Commitment scheme#Coin flipping|flipping a coin over a telephone]], [[median of medians]] (a linear time [[selection algorithm]]), the [[Blum Blum Shub]] [[pseudorandom number generator]], the [[Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem]], and more recently [[captcha|CAPTCHA]]s.Von Ahn, Luis; Blum, Manuel; Hopper, Nicholas J.; Langford, John (May 2003). "[https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/3-540-39200-9_18.pdf CAPTCHA: Using Hard AI Problems for Security]". Proceedings of the [[International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques]] (EUROCRYPT 2003).


Blum is also known as the advisor of many prominent researchers. Among his Ph.D. students are [[Leonard Adleman]], [[Dana Angluin]], [[Shafi Goldwasser]], [[Mor Harchol-Balter]], [[Russell Impagliazzo]], [[Silvio Micali]], [[Gary Miller (professor)|Gary Miller]], [[Moni Naor]], [[Steven Rudich]], [[Michael Sipser]], [[Ronitt Rubinfeld]], [[Umesh Vazirani]], [[Vijay Vazirani]], [[Luis von Ahn]], and [[Ryan Williams (computer scientist)|Ryan Williams]].
Blum is also known as the advisor of many prominent researchers. Among his Ph.D. students are [[Leonard Adleman]], [[Dana Angluin]], [[Shafi Goldwasser]], [[Mor Harchol-Balter]], [[Russell Impagliazzo]], [[Silvio Micali]], [[Gary Miller (computer scientist)|Gary Miller]], [[Moni Naor]], [[Steven Rudich]], [[Michael Sipser]], [[Ronitt Rubinfeld]], [[Umesh Vazirani]], [[Vijay Vazirani]], [[Luis von Ahn]], and [[Ryan Williams (computer scientist)|Ryan Williams]].


== See also ==
== See also ==