Shafrira Goldwasser Quotes

“Our work was very unconventional at the time.”

“I am very proud to have won the Turing Award.”

“As the periodic table, relativity or the genome.”

“To allow a small error to setting new goals for security.”

“Their mathematical underpinnings are thus as important to modern society.”

“Algorithms govern our computing-based world in the same way that the laws of nature govern the physical one.”

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“Winning the award is further testimony to the fact that the cryptographic and complexity theoretic community embraced these ideas in the last 30 years.”

“We were graduate students and let our imagination run free, from using randomized methods to encrypt single bits to enlarging the classical definition of a proof.”

“The Simons Institute at Berkeley, under my leadership, will continue its dedication to the discovery of the fundamentals of computation and to findings that enable technological progress and positive social change.”