Pioneers

Manuel Blum

Algorithms and Complexity Theory

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Computing Atlas. "Manuel Blum." Accessed September 1, 2026. https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/manuel-blum.

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Computing Atlas. (n.d.). Manuel Blum. Retrieved September 1, 2026, from https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/manuel-blum

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@misc{computingatlas-manuel-blum,
  author = {Computing Atlas},
  title = {Manuel Blum},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/manuel-blum},
  note = {Accessed September 1, 2026}
}

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

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Birth Year

1938 1

Birth Date

1938-04-26 1

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Also in Education Atlas: University of California, Berkeley, member of there.
Also in Science Atlas: Turing Award, discussed there.

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1. Wikipedia: Manuel Blum

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

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April 26, 1938

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