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Silvio Micali

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Silvio Micali is an Italian American computer scientist, born in 1954, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founder of Algorand, a proof of stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol. His research at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory centers on cryptography and information security, and in 2012 he and Shafi Goldwasser won the ACM Turing Award.

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Birth Date
1954-10-13 1
Field
Cryptography and information security 1
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1. Silvio Micali, Wikipedia
  • Lead, first sentence
    Silvio Micali (born October 13, 1954) is an Italian computer scientist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founder of Algorand, a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol.
  • Lead, second sentence
    Micali's research at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory centers on cryptography and information security.
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