Biography of Professor Michael O. Rabin

Michael Rabin is T.J. Watson Sr. Professor of C.S. at Harvard University. Professor Rabin received his M.Sc. in Mathematics from the Hebrew University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University where he had his first academic appointment. He was Albert Einstein Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1972-75 he was Rector (Academic Head) of the Hebrew University.

At various times he was a visiting Professor at Yale University, University of California at Berkeley, M.I.T., University of Paris, The Courant Institute of Mathematics, Fairchild Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Columbia University. During 1981-1993 he served on IBM's Science Advisory Committee. In 1992 he was the Henry Saville Fellow at Merton College, Oxford.

Professor Rabin's scientific awards and prizes include The A.M. Turing Award in Computer Science, The Harvey Prize in Science and Technology, The Rothschild Prize in Mathematics, The Israel Prize for Exact Sciences in Computer Science, The IEEE Charles Babbage Award for Computer Science, and Best teacher awards at the Courant Institute of Mathematics and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He is an elected member or honorary foreign member of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, The US National Academy of Sciences, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The American Philosophical Society, and The French Academy of Sciences.

He has received Honorary Degrees from New York University, Haifa University, The University of Bordeaux I, Israel's Open University, and Ben-Gurion University.

Rabin's research interests include complexity of computations, efficient algorithms, randomized algorithms, DNA to DNA computing, parallel and distributed computations, and computer security. Over the past two years he has created Hyper-Encryption, the first ever encryption scheme provably providing everlasting secrecy against a computationally unbounded adversary, now being implemented at Harvard.