Shimon Even

Shimon Even (Hebrew: שמעון אבן; June 15, 1935 – May 1, 2004) was an Israeli computer science researcher. His main topics of interest included, algorithms, graph theory and cryptography. He was a member of the Computer Science Department at the Technion since 1974. Shimon Even was the PhD advisor of Oded Goldreich, a prominent cryptographer.

Shimon Even
שמעון אבן
Born	(1935-06-15)June 15, 1935 Tel Aviv, British Mandate for Palestine (present-day Israel)
Died	May 1, 2004(2004-05-01) (aged 68)
Alma mater	Harvard University
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science, Cryptography
Institutions	Technion, Weizmann Institute of Science
Doctoral advisor	Hao Wang
Doctoral students	Oded Goldreich, Baruch Awerbuch

Books

• Algorithmic Combinatorics, Macmillan, 1973.
• Graph Algorithms, Computer Science Press, 1979. ISBN 0-7167-8044-5.

See also

• Oblivious transfer

External links

• Memorial page
• Bibliography on DBLP
• Prof. Even's "genealogy" (PDF)
• Shimon Even at the Mathematics Genealogy Project