Lenore Carol Blum is an American computer scientist and mathematician who has made contributions to the theories of real number computation, cryptography, and pseudorandom number generation.
17 Facts About Lenore Blum
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Lenore Blum was a distinguished career professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University until 2019 and is currently a professor in residence at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Lenore Blum is known for her efforts to increase diversity in mathematics and computer science.
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Lenore Blum married Manuel Blum, then a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and transferred in 1961 to Simmons College, a private women's liberal arts college in Boston.
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Lenore Blum had switched to being advised by Sacks after being unable to follow an earlier advisor in his move to Princeton University because, at the time, Princeton did not accept female graduate students.
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Lenore Blum served as the head or co-head of the department for 13 years.
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In 1983 Lenore Blum won a National Science Foundation Visiting Professorship for Women award to work with Michael Shub for two years at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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In 1992 Lenore Blum became the deputy director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, working there with its director William Thurston.
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Lenore Blum founded Project Olympus at CMU, a business incubator program that led to many startups in Pittsburgh associated with CMU and its computer program.
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Lenore Blum published a book on the subject, and in 1990 she gave an address at the International Congress of Mathematicians on computational complexity theory and real computation.
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In 2002, Lenore Blum was selected to be an Association for Women in Mathematics Noether Lecturer.
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In 2005, Blum was a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, given by president George W Bush "for her efforts to mentor girls and women in technology fields where traditionally they are underrepresented".
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Lenore Blum was given the Simmons University 2018 Distinguished Alumnae Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
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Lenore Blum was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1979.
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In 2012, Lenore Blum became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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Lenore Blum is included in a deck of playing cards featuring notable women mathematicians published by the Association of Women in Mathematics.
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Lenore Blum is married to Manuel Blum and is the mother of Avrim Blum.