Harvard University Computer Science Professor Cynthia Dwork has been awarded the 2020 Donald E. Knuth Prize for “fundamental and lasting contributions to computer science.” In announcing the award, the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory said Dwork’s research has transformed several fields, including data privacy. She is known for the “introduction and development of differential privacy,” which SIGACT said has “profoundly influenced the science of data privacy.”
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