Shmuel Winograd, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Shmuel Winograd

Israeli computer scientist

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1936

Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Date of Death: 25-Mar-2019

Profession: engineer, computer scientist

Nationality: United States, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Shmuel Winograd (Hebrew: ????? ????????; born January 4, 1936) is an Israeli-American computer scientist, noted for his contributions to computational complexity.
He has proved several major results regarding the computational aspects of arithmetic; his contributions include the Coppersmith–Winograd algorithm and an algorithm for the Fast Fourier Transform.Winograd studied Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his B.S.
and M.S.
degrees in 1959.
He received his Ph.D.
from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in 1968.
He joined the research staff at IBM in 1961, eventually becoming director of the Mathematical Sciences Department there from 1970–1974 and 1980–1994.