The 2017 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Electronics, Information and Communication
• Achievement:
  Contribution to information security through pioneering research on cryptography
• Lecture:
  Cryptography: Past, Present, Future

Awards

1983	The Israeli Mathematical Society Erdos Prize
1986	IEEE Baker Prize
1990	UAP Scientific Prize, France
1992	The Vatican's Pontifical Academy PIUS X1 Gold Medal
1997	Association for Computing Machinery, Kanellakis Prize
2000	IEEE Kobayashi Computers and Communications Prize
2002	Association for Computing Machinery, Turing Award
2008	Israel Prize
2008	Okawa Prize, Japan
2008	NEC Prize, Japan
2012	Grand Medaille of the French Academie des sciences, France

Education

1973	Tel Aviv University, BSc in mathematics
1975	Weizmann Institute of Science, MSc in Computer Science
1977	Weizmann Institute, PhD in Computer Science

Research and Career

1977-78	MIT, Department of Mathematics, Instructor,
1978-80	Assistant Professor, MIT
1980-84	Associate Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science
1984-	Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science

Affiliation

• Weizmann Institute of Science
  Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
  Jacob Ziskind Building Room 209
  234 Herzl Street, Rehovot 7610001, Israel

Publications, Thesis

• Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir, Leonard M. Adleman: A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems. Commun. ACM 21 (2), 120-126 (1978)
• Adi Shamir: How to Share a Secret. Commun. ACM 22 (11), 612-613 (1979)
• Adi Shamir: Identity-Based Cryptosystems and Signature Schemes. CRYPTO 1984, 47-53 (1984)
• Uriel Feige, Amos Fiat, Adi Shamir: Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Identity. J. Cryptology 1 (2), 77-94 (1988)
• Eli Biham, Adi Shamir: Differential Cryptanalysis of DES-like Cryptosystems. J. Cryptology 4 (1), 3-72 (1991)
• Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, Eran Tromer: Acoustic cryptanalysis.
  J. Cryptology, to appear.