Roger Wattenhofer
Professor of Distributed Systems in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineerin at ETH
About Roger Wattenhofer
Born 1969. Roger Wattenhofer is a computer scientist.
Roger Wattenhofer, born in 1969, is a Swiss computer scientist, active in the field of distributed computing, networking, and algorithms. He is a professor at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) since 2001. He has published numerous research articles in computer science and a book on Bitcoin.
Together with Christian Decker in 2014, he uncovered that nearly 850,000 of the Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox could not have been stolen by malleability attacks, as claimed by Mt. Gox. In 2017, he appeared in a movie about the Blockchain. .
Awards and honors In 2012, Wattenhofer won the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing, awarded annually at the SIROCCO conference. . In 2026, he was jointly awarded the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their paper on Distributed Verification and Hardness of Distributed Approximation.
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Who is Roger Wattenhofer?
Professor of Distributed Systems in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineerin at ETH
When was Roger Wattenhofer born?
Roger Wattenhofer was born on 17 November 1969 in Canton of Schwyz.
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Roger Wattenhofer is a computer scientist.
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