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David Peleg (computer scientist)

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David Peleg (Template:Lang-he; born 1957) is an Israeli computer scientist. He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, holding the Norman D. Cohen Professorial Chair of Computer Sciences.

He received his undergraduate degree from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D from the Weizmann Institute under the supervision of David Harel. He has published numerous papers and a book, chaired leading conferences in computer science, and is an editor of several scientific journals. He is married and has four children.

In 2008, he was awarded the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing along with Baruch Awerbuch for their 1990 paper 'Sparse Partitions'[1].


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