Joan Feigenbaum | |
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Born | 1958 (age 65–66) |
Education | Harvard University |
Occupation | American theoretical computer scientist |
Partner | Jeffrey Nussbaum |
Children | 1 |
Joan Feigenbaum (born 1958 in Brooklyn, New York) is a theoretical computer scientist with a background in mathematics. She is the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science at Yale University.[1] At Yale she also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics. Feigenbaum co-invented the computer-security research area of trust management.[2]
Feigenbaum did her undergraduate work in Mathematics at Harvard University. She became interested in computers during the Summer Research Program at AT&T's Bell Labs between her junior and senior years. She then earned a Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University, under the supervision of Andrew Yao,[3] while working summers at Bell Labs. After graduation she joined Bell Labs. She became the Hopper Professor at Yale in 2008.[1]
She is married to Jeffrey Nussbaum. They have a son, Sam Baum. Baum was chosen as the child's surname as the greatest common suffix of Feigenbaum and Nussbaum.[4]
In 1998 Feigenbaum was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[5] In 2001 she became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for her "foundational and highly influential contributions to cryptographic complexity theory, authorization and trust management, massive-data-stream computation, and algorithmic mechanism design."[6] In 2012 she was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[7] and, in 2013, a member[8] of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. The Connecticut Technology Council chose her as a Woman of Innovation in 2012. She acts as one of the three award-committee members on ACM SIGecom test of time award.[9]