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 |
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| Fields | Distributed computing andComputer networks |
| Institutions | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Chung Laung Liu |
| Doctoral students | Tamar Eilam |
Schmuel Zaks (Hebrew:שמואל זקס; born 1949) is acomputer scientist andmathematician who works in the fields ofdistributed computing andcomputer networks. He is a professor atTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he holds the Joan Callner-Miller Chair in Computer Science.
Zaks received his BSc degree from Technion in 1971 and MSc from Technion in 1972. In 1979 he received his PhD degree fromUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his PhD supervisor wasChung Laung Liu.[1] Since then, he has done joint work with numerous co-authors, including the prolific mathematicianPaul Erdős.
During the 23rdInternational Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2009), a series of lectures was organized to celebrate Schmuel Zaks's andMichel Raynal's 60th birthdays and their contributions in the development of the field of distributed computing.[2]
In 2017, Zaks received thePrize for Innovation in Distributed Computing, at the SIROCCO 2017 conference, for his lifetime achievements in Distributed Computing.
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