Manuel Blum

Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum (left) with his wife Lenore and their son Avrim, 1973
Born (1938-04-26) 26 April 1938
Caracas, Venezuela
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, PhD)
Known forBlum complexity axioms
Blum integer
Blum's speedup theorem
Blum Blum Shub
Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem
Blum–Micali algorithm
CAPTCHA
reCAPTCHA
Commitment scheme
SpouseLenore Blum
AwardsACM's A.M. Turing Award, 1995
Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley, 1977
Sigma Xi's Monie A. Ferst Award, 1991
Herbert A.Simon Teaching award, 2007
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Carnegie Mellon University
ThesisA Machine-Independent Theory of the Complexity of Recursive Functions (1964)
Doctoral advisorMarvin Minsky
Doctoral studentsLeonard Adleman
Dana Angluin
C. Eric Bach
Shafi Goldwasser
Mor Harchol-Balter
Russell Impagliazzo
Silvio Micali
Gary Miller
Moni Naor
Ronitt Rubinfeld
Steven Rudich
Jeffrey Shallit
Michael Sipser
Umesh Vazirani
Vijay Vazirani
Luis von Ahn
Ryan Williams
Websitewww.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum

Manuel Blum (born 26 April 1938) is a Venezuelan-born American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".