On May 1, 2004, the world of theoretical computer science su?ered a stunning loss: Shimon Even passed away. Few computer scientists have had as long, s- tained, and in?uential a career as Shimon. Shimon Even was born in Tel-Aviv in 1935. He received a B.Sc. in Elect- cal Engineering from the Technion in 1959, an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Northern Carolina in 1961, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1963. He held positions at the Technion (196467 and 19742003), Harvard University (196769), the Weizmann Institute (1969 74), and the Tel-Aviv Academic College (2003-04). He visited many universities and research institutes, including Bell Laboratories, Boston University, Cornell, Duke, Lucent Technologies, MIT, Paderborn, Stanford, UC-Berkeley, USC and UT-Dallas. Shimon Even played a major role in establishing computer science education in Israel and led the development of academic programs in two major insti- tions: the Weizmann Institute and the Technion. In 1969 he established at the Weizmann the ?rst computer science education program in Israel, and led this program for ?ve years. In 1974 he joined the newly formed computer science department at the Technion and shaped its academic development for several decades. These two academic programs turned out to have a lasting impact on the evolution of computer science in Israel.

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Klappentext

This volume commemorates Shimon Even, one of founding fathers of Computer Science in Israel, who passed away on May 1, 2004. This Festschrift contains research contributions, surveys and educational essays in theoretical computer science, written by former students and close collaborators of Shimon. The essays address natural computational problems and are accessible to most researchers in theoretical computer science.

Zusammenfassung

From the reviews:

"Shimon Even was ... considered a superb teacher that had great influence on his listeners and students. Overall, the book is a very fitting tribute to the legacy of Shimon Even. ... The editors attempted to a wide range of research contribution in the first part of the book accessible to a wide range of researchers by using both experts and nonexperts as reviewers. They succeeded in this attempt. The papers are accessible to anybody with some background in theoretical computer science." (Burkhard Englert, Computing Reviews, December, 2006)

Inhalt
The Reduced Automata Technique for Graph Exploration Space Lower Bounds.- Concurrent Zero-Knowledge with Timing, Revisited.- Fair Bandwidth Allocation Without Per-Flow State.- Optimal Flow Distribution Among Multiple Channels with Unknown Capacities.- Parceling the Butterfly and the Batcher Sorting Network.- An Application Intersection Marketing Ontology.- How to Leak a Secret: Theory and Applications of Ring Signatures.- A New Related Message Attack on RSA.- A Tale of Two Methods.- Dinitz' Algorithm: The Original Version and Even's Version.- Survey of Disjoint NP-pairs and Relations to Propositional Proof Systems.- On Promise Problems: A Survey.- A Pebble Game for Internet-Based Computing.- On Teaching Fast Adder Designs: Revisiting Ladner & Fischer.- On Teaching the Basics of Complexity Theory.- State.