Shimon Even - Brief Bio

The following text was translated from Hebrew (and slightly formated). The original is a BIO in Hebrew (available from here) that was prepared by Shimon in 2003.

Born 15.6.35 in Ramat-Gan, Israel.
[Studies]
- BSc in Electrical Engineering, Technion (1959).
- MA in Mathematics, UNC (1961).
- PhD in Applied Mathematics, Harvard (1963).
[Positions]
- 1964-1967: Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Math. Dept., Technion.
- 1967-1969: Visiting Professor, Harvard.
- 1969-1974: Associate Professor, Weizmann Institute.
- 1974-2003: Professor, Computer Science Dept., Technion.
[Visiting Positions]
- Visiting Professor at Berkeley, BU, Cornell, Duke, Lyngby, Lecce, MIT, Paderborn, Salerno, Stanford, UNAM, USC, and UTD.
- Visiting Scientist at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and Sperry Rand Research Center.

Founded (at Weizmann Institute) the first graduate program in Computer Science in Israel (1969).
[Honors]
- Fischbach Scholarship (1955-59).
- The George Farkas Chair in Computer Science (1981).
- The Henry Taub Award (1992).
- Salmon Simon Mani Award for Excellence in Teaching (1996).
Research Interests: Algorithms, Cryptography, Interconnection and Sorting Networks, Circuit Layout.
Published more than seventy papers in international journals and wrote two books on Graph Theory.
Supervised fourteen Doctorate students and over twenty Master's students.
Was a member of a three-person team that designed in 1965 the first commercial mini-computer in the world, Elbit100, which was the first product of the Elbit Company.
Licensed nine patents.