Cynthia Dwork
Encyclopedia
Cynthia Dwork is a distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research
who works on distributed computing
, cryptography
, and e-mail spam
prevention.
She received the Dijkstra Prize
in 2007 for her work on consensus
problems together with Nancy Lynch
and Larry Stockmeyer
. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
(AAAS) in 2008, and as a member of the National Academy of Engineering
in 2008.
Dwork received her Ph.D. from Cornell University
in 1983. Her advisor was John Hopcroft
.
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research is the research division of Microsoft created in 1991 for developing various computer science ideas and integrating them into Microsoft products. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R. Hoare, Butler Lampson, and Charles P...
who works on distributed computing
Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...
, cryptography
Cryptography
Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...
, and e-mail spam
E-mail spam
Email spam, also known as junk email or unsolicited bulk email , is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by email. Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. One subset of UBE is UCE...
prevention.
She received the Dijkstra Prize
Dijkstra Prize
The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is given for outstanding papers on the principles of distributed computing, whose significance and impact on the theory and/or practice of distributed computing has been evident for at least a decade...
in 2007 for her work on consensus
Consensus (computer science)
Consensus is a problem in distributed computing that encapsulates the task of group agreement in the presence of faults.In particular, any process in the group may fail at any time. Consensus is fundamental to core techniques in fault tolerance, such as state machine replication.- Problem...
problems together with Nancy Lynch
Nancy Lynch
Nancy Ann Lynch is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department and heads the Theory of Distributed Systems research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.She is the...
and Larry Stockmeyer
Larry Stockmeyer
Larry Joseph Stockmeyer was a computer scientist. He was one of the pioneers in the field of computational complexity theory, and he also worked in the field of distributed computing...
. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and...
(AAAS) in 2008, and as a member of the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
in 2008.
Dwork received her Ph.D. from Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
in 1983. Her advisor was John Hopcroft
John Hopcroft
John Edward Hopcroft is an American theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on theory of computation and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields. He is the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science at Cornell University.He received his...
.
External links
- Cynthia Dwork's home page.
- Cynthia Dwork's publications in DBLPDBLPDBLP is a computer science bibliography website hosted at Universität Trier, in Germany. It was originally a database and logic programming bibliography site, and has existed at least since the 1980s. DBLP listed more than 1.3 million articles on computer science in January 2010...
. - Microsoft Research: Database Privacy project.
- Microsoft Research – News: Women in Research – Cynthia Dwork: Protecting Your Privacy, by Suzanne Ross.