Lenore Blum

1942 -

Country of citizenship: United States

Languages spoken, written or signed: English

Educated at: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Simmons University

Occupation: mathematician, computer scientist, university teacher

Award received: Noether Lecture, Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Position held: President of the Association for Women in Mathematics

Official website: www.cs.cmu.edu/~lblum

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Lenore Carol Blum (née Epstein, born December 18, 1942) is an American computer scientist and mathematician who has made contributions to the theories of real number computation, cryptography, and pseudorandom number generation. She was a distinguished career professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University until 2019 and is currently a professor in residence at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also known for her efforts to increase diversity in mathematics and computer science. Source: Wikipedia (en)