Benny Chor


1980 - B.Sc., Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1981 - M.Sc., Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1985 - Ph.D., Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Computational Biology; Cryptography and Pseudorandomness; Randomized Distributed Algorithms; Computer Science Education for Kids.
 

CHOR, B., HENDY, M., and PENNY, D., "Analytic Solutions for Three Taxon MLMC Trees with Variable Rates Across Sites ," WABI 2001, August 2001. Talk slides Download (PDF)

CHOR, B., HENDY, M., HOLLAND, B., and PENNY, D., "Multiple maxima of likelihood in phylogenetic trees: an analytic approach," Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol. 17, No.10, September 2000,  pp. 1529--1541. Download (PDF)

BEN-DOR, A., CHOR, B., and PELLEG, D., "Radiation hybrid ordering (RHO)", Genome Research, Vol. 10, No. 3,pp. 365-378, 2000. Download (PDF)

CHOR, B., GOLDREICH, O., KUSHILEVITZ, E., and SUDAN, M., "Private information retrieval", Journal of ACM, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 965-981, 1998. Download (PDF)

CHOR, B., and NELSON, L., "Solvability in asynchronous environments II: finite interactive tasks", SIAM Journal on Computing, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 351-377, 1999. Download (PDF), Download (PS)

CHOR, B., and SUDAN, M., "A geometric approach to betweenness", SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 511-523, 1998. Download (PDF), Download(PS)

BEN-DOR, A., CHOR, B., GRAUR, D., OPHIR, R., and PELLEG, D., "Constructing Phylogenies from Quartets: Elucidation of Eutherian

Superordinal Relationships", Journal of Computational Biology, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 377-390, 1998. Download (PS)
 
CHOR, B., GERÉB-GRAUS, M., and KUSHILEVITZ, E. "Private computations over the integers", SIAM Journal on Computing, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 376-386, 1995. Download (PS)
 
BEIMEL, A., and CHOR, B., "Universally ideal secret sharing schemes", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 786-794, 1994. Download (PS)
 
CHOR, B., and GOLDREICH, O., "Unbiased bits from sources of weak randomness and probabilistic communication complexity", SIAM Journal on Computing, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 230-261, 1988.
 
ALEXI, W., CHOR, B., GOLDREICH, O., and SCHNORR, C.P., "RSA/Rabin Functions: Certain parts are as hard as the whole", SIAM Journal on Computing, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 194-209, 1988.
 
CHOR, B., GOLDWASSER, S., MICALI, S. , and AWERBUCH, B. ,``Verifiable Secret Sharing and Achieving Simultaneity in the Presence of Faults'', Proceedings of the 26th IEEE Conference on the Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), October 1985, pp. 383--395.
 
 
 

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Contact Information


Email: benny@cs.technion.ac.il
Office: Taub 638
Phone: (+972-4-829) 4952

Fax: +972-4-8221128 (or +972-4-8294353)
 

Address:

Computer Science Department,
Technion,
Haifa 32000, Israel.