Shafrira Goldwasser made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Shafrira Goldwasser as American computer scientist.
Shafrira Goldwasser was born at New York City in 1958. Her recorded nationality is the United States. She was educated at Carnegie Mellon University and University of California, Berkeley.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives her occupations as cryptographer, mathematician and computer scientist.
Her affiliations include Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Weizmann Institute of Science.
Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
Her recorded fields of work are computer science.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Turing Award (2012).
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Shafrira Goldwasser is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Turing Award — 2012
- Affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Weizmann Institute of Science
- Educated at Carnegie Mellon University and University of California, Berkeley
- Worked as cryptographer, mathematician and computer scientist
