| Shimon Even | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 15, 1935 Tel Aviv, British Mandate for Palestine (present-day Israel) |
| Died | May 1, 2004 |
| Fields | Computer Science, Cryptography |
| Institutions |
Technion, Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Hao Wang |
| Doctoral students | Oded Goldreich, Baruch Awerbuch |
Shimon Even (Hebrew: שמעון אבן; June 15, 1935 – May 1, 2004) was an Israeli computer science researcher. His main topics of interest included algorithms, graph theory and cryptography. He was a member of the Computer Science Department at the Technion since 1974. Shimon Even was the PhD advisor of Oded Goldreich, a prominent cryptographer.