Jewish Recipients of the ACM Kanellakis Award

Listed below are recipients of the Association for Computing Machinery's Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award who are Jewish (or of partial Jewish descent, as noted). The Kanellakis Award is considered to be one of the most prestigious in theoretical and applied computer science.

Leonard Adleman (1996)
Martin Hellman (1996)
Adi Shamir (1996)
Abraham Lempel (1997)
Jacob Ziv (1997)
Daniel Sleator¹ (1999)
Robert Tarjan² (1999)
Michael Rabin (2003)
Robert Solovay (2003)
Yoav Freund (2004)
Robert Schapire (2004)
Robert Kurshan (2005)
Moshe Vardi (2005)
Vladimir Vapnik (2008)
Phillip Rogaway (2009)
Hanan Samet (2011)
Andrei Broder (2012)
Robert Blumofe (2013)
Amos Fiat (2016)
Moni Naor (2016)
Scott Shenker (2017)
Pavel Pevzner (2018)
Noga Alon (2019)
Yossi Matias (2019)
Yossi Azar (2020)
Andrei Broder (2020)
Anna Karlin (2020)
Michael Mitzenmacher (2020)
Eli Upfal (2020)
Avrim Blum (2021)
Irit Dinur (2021)
Cynthia Dwork (2021)
Kobbi Nissim (2021)

NOTES
1. Jewish mother (née Esther Kaplan), non-Jewish father. See http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1688/Sleator-William-Warner-III-1945.html and the fifth paragraph of the third chapter of Oddballs ("Frank's Mother"), by brother William Sleator: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/oddballs/oddballs-web/oddballs.html.
2. Son of Dr. George Tarjan, 112th President of the American Psychiatric Association, who "was raised in an intellectual, liberal Jewish family" in Hungary, where his parents and younger brother Endre perished in the Holocaust; see obituary in the American Journal of Psychiatry (150:5, May 1993, pp. 691-694).

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