Name: Manuel Blum
Born: April 26, 1938, in Caracas, Venezuela
Computer-related contributions
- Computer scientist known for his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking.
- In the 1960s, he developed an axiomatic complexity theory, which was independent of concrete machine models.
- His recent work is around CAPTCHAs.
Honors and awards
- Elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences (2002).
- Received the Turing Award (1995).