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Nationality
  
Italian American

Awards
  
Turing Award, Godel Prize

Doctoral advisor
  

Role
  
Computer scientist

Name
  
Silvio Micali

Organizations founded
  
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Born
  
October 13, 1954 (age 70) Palermo, Italy (
1954-10-13
)

Alma mater
  
La Sapienza University of RomeUniversity of California, Berkeley

Thesis
  
Randomness versus Hardness (1983)

Doctoral students
  
Mihir BellareRafail OstrovskyPhillip Rogaway

Known for
  
Goldwasser–Micali cryptosystemZero-knowledge proofPseudorandom FunctionsPeppercoin

Fields
  
Computer Science, Cryptography

Similar People
  
Shafi Goldwasser, Oded Goldreich, Charles Rackoff, Mihir Bellare, Manuel Blum

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Silvio Micali (born October 13, 1954) is an Italian computer scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a professor of computer science in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science since 1983. His research centers on the theory of cryptography and information security.

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Education

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Micali graduated in mathematics at La Sapienza University of Rome in 1978 and earned a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982; his PhD thesis adviser was Manuel Blum.

Research

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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.

Awards

Micali won the Gödel Prize in 1993. In 2007, he was selected to be a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the IACR. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Turing Award for the year 2012 along with Shafi Goldwasser for their work in the field of cryptography. In 2015 the University of Salerno acknowledges his studies giving him an honoris causa degree in Computer Science.


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References

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