IBM Research is pleased to announce that Yehuda Lindell of the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel is the recipient of the 2002 Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Lindell's dissertation is entitled "The Composition of Secure Protocols and a Study of Password-Based Security". He has chosen to spend his postdoctoral year at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York, investigating the topic of his choice: new aspects of secure multiparty computation.

This year, the review committee, which consisted of senior researchers from the IBM Almaden, Austin, Haifa and Watson labs, received 44 applications from around the world. The high quality of these applications made the selection process a difficult one. All of the applicants should be congratulated for the exciting research they have done and propose to do. The committee would like to thank all the applicants and the many others who wrote letters of support.

Background:

The 2002 Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computer Science and Computer Engineering is in memory of Dr. Raviv, the founder and director of IBM's Haifa Research Laboratory. Dr. Raviv had a distinguished research career in Information Theory and was a pioneer in the Israeli high-tech industry.

IBM has long pursued major research programs in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. More than 1200 CS/CE researchers work in IBM Research labs in six countries, pursuing topics in almost all disciplines of computer science. Last year, our researchers published more than 600 journal, conference, and workshop papers in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. For more information about the breadth of our activities, please see www.research.ibm.com/compsci and www.research.ibm.com/disciplines/electrical_eng.shtml .