Manuel Blum

Name: Manuel Blum

Born: April 26, 1938, in Caracas, Venezuela

Computer-related contributions

• Computer scientist known for his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking.
• In the 1960s, he developed an axiomatic complexity theory, which was independent of concrete machine models.
• His recent work is around CAPTCHAs.

Honors and awards

• Elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences (2002).
• Received the Turing Award (1995).