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 ...

Turing Award-winning computer scientist Shafi Goldwasser will become the new director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley, on January 1, 2018.

Shafi Goldwasser is Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, and Professor of EECS at the University of California Berkeley, Professor of EEECS at MIT, and Professor of Computer ...

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 ...

Two MIT professors have been named as the winners of the 2012 A.M. Turing Award for their pioneering work in the fields of cryptography and complexity theory. The ACM A.M Turing Award is widely ...

"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 ...

Donna Tam covers Amazon and other fun stuff for CNET News. She is a San Francisco native who enjoys feasting, merrymaking, checking her Gmail and reading her Kindle. Two cryptography scientists from ...

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.” ...