This story is part of The Privacy Divide, a series that explores the fault lines and disparities–economic, cultural, philosophical–that have developed around ...

When Shafi Goldwasser chose to focus on cryptography and algorithmic number theory as a new graduate student in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979, her timing was ...

Shafi Goldwasser, one of only three women to have won the Turing Award, referred to as “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” will become the new director of the campus’s Simons Institute for the Theory of ...

A pair of MIT professors and security researchers whose work paved the way for modern cryptography have been named winners of the 2012 A.M. Turing Award, also known as the “Nobel Prize in Computing.” ...

"Their advanced crypto-protocols enable the safe and secure transmission of electronic data, ranging from e-mail to financial transactions. In addition, their work provides the underpinning for ...

On June 15, EECS professor Shafi Goldwasser and engineering professor Silvio Micali will receive the A. M. Turing Award for their pioneering work in cryptography and complexity theory. The two ...

Goldwasser is the third member of the Weizmann Institute faculty to receive the Award. The others are Profs. Amir Pnueli (1996) and Adi Shamir (2002). ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, ...

Masses of information is collected every day by governments, companies and agencies. The question of what they hold on you and how best to protect your privacy in a big data world will be discussed ...

Israeli who pioneered computer security wins top prize The work done by the Weizmann Institute’s Shafi Goldwasser is a cornerstone of safe network interactions. For that, she and her American research ...

Goldwasser is the third member of the Weizmann Institute faculty to receive the Award. The others are Profs. Amir Pnueli (1996) and Adi Shamir (2002). ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, ...