Michael Ben-Or

Michael Ben-Or is a computer scientist associated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research addresses how computation can remain correct and private despite failures or adversarial behavior.

Security relevance

Ben-Or’s work on distributed agreement and secure multiparty computation provided rigorous constructions for collaboration among parties that may be faulty or malicious. It is a key bridge between distributed-systems reliability and cryptographic privacy.

Timeline

• 1982Receives a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University.
• 1983Publishes work on completely asynchronous agreement.
• 1988Co-authors a foundational paper on fault-tolerant distributed computation.
• 1997Co-authors work on fault-tolerant quantum computation with constant error rate.