Shafrira “Shafi” Goldwasser, born in 1958, is an American-Israeli computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award in 2012. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, co-founder and chief scientist of Duality Technologie and the director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in Berkeley, CA
“A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things.” —Grace Hopper