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{{Short description|Israeli computer science researcher (1935 – 2004)}}
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| native_name       = שמעון אבן
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| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1935|6|15}}
| birth_place       = [[Tel Aviv]], [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate for Palestine]] (present-day [[Israel]])
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2004|5|1|1935|6|15}}
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| field             = [[Computer Science]], [[Cryptography]]
| work_institution  = [[Technion]],<br>[[Weizmann Institute of Science]]
| alma_mater        = [[Harvard University]]
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Hao Wang (academic)|Hao Wang]]
| doctoral_students = [[Oded Goldreich]], [[Baruch Awerbuch]]
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'''Shimon Even''' ({{langx|he|שמעון אבן}}; June 15, 1935 – May 1, 2004) was an Israeli [[computer science]] researcher. His main topics of interest included [[algorithm]]s, [[graph theory]] and [[cryptography]]. He was a member of the Computer Science Department at the [[Technion]] since 1974. Shimon Even was the PhD advisor of [[Oded Goldreich]], a prominent cryptographer.

==Books==
* ''Algorithmic Combinatorics'', Macmillan, 1973.
* ''Graph Algorithms'', Computer Science Press, 1979. {{ISBN|0-7167-8044-5}}.

== See also ==
* [[Oblivious transfer]]

==External links==
* [http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/s_even.html Memorial page]
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/e/Even:Shimon.html Bibliography on DBLP]
* [https://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~reuven/EVEN/even_tree.pdf Prof. Even's "genealogy" (PDF)]
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[[Category:1935 births]]
[[Category:2004 deaths]]
[[Category:Modern cryptographers]]
[[Category:Graph theorists]]
[[Category:Israeli computer scientists]]
[[Category:Israeli cryptographers]]
[[Category:Harvard University alumni]]
[[Category:Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology|Even Shimon]]
[[Category:Burials at Yarkon Cemetery]]


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