Shimon Even

Shimon Even was born in 1935 in Tel Aviv

Shimon Even was born in 1935. He studied electrical engineering at the Technion and earned a bachelor's degree in 1959. He then received a master's degree in mathematics from the University of North Carolina in 1961 and a doctorate in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1963, under Hao Wang.

He taught at Harvard University, the Technion and the Weizmann Institute of Science. At the Weizmann Institute he led the opening of the first computer science degree program in Israel in 1969. From 1970 to 1975 he also taught early computer science courses at Tel Aviv University.

In 1965 he was on the team that built the Elbit 100, the first commercial computer made in Israel. From 1974 he was a professor in the Technion's computer science faculty and headed it twice. His research covered algorithms, graph theory, cryptography and computational complexity, and his students included Oded Goldreich.

After retiring from the Technion he headed computer science at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo and served as its vice president for academic affairs. He died in Israel in 2004. He left a wife and 3 children, among them Professor Guy Even.