Hagit Attiya

Hagit Attiya is an Israeli computer scientist who holds the Harry W. Labov and Charlotte Ullman Labov Academic Chair of Computer Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. After postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she joined the Technion faculty in 1990.

Awards and honors Attiya became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2009 for "contributions to distributed and parallel computing".

In 2011, Attiya and her co-authors Danny Dolev and Amotz Bar-Noy won the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their work on implementing shared memory using message passing, published in the Journal of the ACM in 1995. She was also the recipient of the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from Yad Hanadiv in 2011.

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