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Adam D. Smith

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About Adam D. Smith

Adam D. Smith was an American computer scientist.

Adam D. Smith is a computer scientist at Boston University, where he is a founding member of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. His areas of research include cryptography and information privacy. He is known, along with Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, and Kobbi Nissim, as one of the co-inventors of differential privacy, for which he won the 2017 Gödel Prize.

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Important facts

Occupation
Nationality
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McGill University
Employers
Pennsylvania State University, University of Pennsylvania, Boston University
Awards
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers; Gödel Prize; Paris Kanellakis Award; ACM Fellow
Also known as
Adam Davison Smith, Adam Smith

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Adam D. Smith was American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Adam D. Smith

· Wikidata: Q39075036

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