Shmuel Zaks
Israeli computer scientist and mathematician
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Schmuel Zaks (Hebrew: שמואל זקס; born 1949) is a computer scientist and mathematician who works in the fields of distributed computing and computer networks. He is a professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he holds the Joan Callner-Miller Chair in Computer Science.
Shmuel Zaks | |
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שמואל זקס | |
| Born | 1949 (age 76–77) |
| Alma mater | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Distributed computing and Computer networks |
| Institutions | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| Chung Laung Liu | |
Doctoral students | Tamar Eilam |
Zaks received his BSc degree from Technion in 1971 and MSc from Technion in 1972. In 1979 he received his PhD degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his PhD supervisor was Chung Laung Liu.[1] Since then, he has done joint work with numerous co-authors, including the prolific mathematician Paul Erdős.
During the 23rd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2009), a series of lectures was organized to celebrate Schmuel Zaks's and Michel Raynal's 60th birthdays and their contributions in the development of the field of distributed computing.[2]
In 2017, Zaks received the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing, at the SIROCCO 2017 conference, for his lifetime achievements in Distributed Computing.