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Zvi Galil ( Hebrew : צבי גליל ; born June 26, 1947) is an Israeli-American computer scientist . He has served as the dean of the Columbia University School of Engineering and as president of Tel Aviv University from 2007 through 2009. From 2010 to 2019, he was the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing . His research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms , computational complexity and cryptography . He has been credited with coining the terms stringology and sparsification. He has published over 200 scientific papers and is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher . "Institute names next College of Computing Dean" (Press release). Georgia Institute of Technology . 2010-04-09 . The Prague Stringology Club . Czech Technical University in Prague . The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography . ISI Web of Knowledge .
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Zvi Galil ( ; born 1947) is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician . He is the incoming dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing . His research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms , computational complexity and cryptography . He has published over 150 scientific papers and is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher . "Institute names next College of Computing Dean" . 2010-04-09 .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Zvi Galil ( ; born 1947) is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician . He is the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing . His research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms , computational complexity and cryptography . He has been credited with coining the terms stringology and sparsification. He has published over 150 scientific papers and is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher . "Institute names next College of Computing Dean" (Press release).Georgia Institute of Technology . 2010-04-09 .The Prague Stringology Club .Czech Technical University in Prague .Journal of the ACM . 44 (5): 669– 696 .The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography .ISI Web of Knowledge .
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Zvi Galil ( ; born June 26, 1947) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and mathematician .Galil served as the President of Tel Aviv University from 2007 through 2009.From 2010 to 2019, he was the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing . His research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms , computational complexity and cryptography . He has been credited with coining the terms stringology and sparsification. He has published over 200 scientific papers and is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher . "Institute names next College of Computing Dean" (Press release). Georgia Institute of Technology . 2010-04-09 . The Prague Stringology Club . Czech Technical University in Prague . The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography . ISI Web of Knowledge .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Israeli mathematician and computer scientist Zvi Galil ( ; born June 26, 1947) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and mathematician . Galil served as the president of Tel Aviv University from 2007 through 2009. From 2010 to 2019, he was the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing . His research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms , computational complexity and cryptography . He has been credited with coining the terms stringology and sparsification. He has published over 200 scientific papers and is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher . "Institute names next College of Computing Dean" (Press release). Georgia Institute of Technology . 2010-04-09 . The Prague Stringology Club . Czech Technical University in Prague . The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography . ISI Web of Knowledge .
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israeli computer scientist and mathematician
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israeli-american computer scientist
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