Lenore Blum received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968 (the same year Princeton University first allowed women to enter their graduate program). She then went to the University of California, Berkeley as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Mathematics. In 1973 she joined the faculty of Mills College where in 1974 she founded the Mathematics and Computer Science Department (serving as its Head or co-Head for 13 years). In 1979 she was awarded the first Letts-Villard Chair at Mills. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Mathematics Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: Mathematics Look up Mathematics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikimedia Commons has more media related to: Mathematics Bogomolny, Alexander: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... For other Princetons, see Princeton. ... University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, University of California, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated in Berkeley, California, USA to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... Mills College is a private womens liberal arts college located in Oakland, California, USA. It has played an important role in modern American music through its post-graduate program in experimental music. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Computer Science Open Directory Project: Computer Science Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Belief that title science in computer science is inappropriate Categories: Computer science ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

An National Science Foundation Career Advancement Award in 1983 enabled Blum to embark on a longtime scientific collaboration with Mike Shub. She spent part of the next two years in New York as Visiting Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and returned to New York in 1987 as Visiting Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent United States government agency responsible for supporting basic science research mainly by providing research funding. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) (NYSE: IBM) (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, NY, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ...

In 1988 Blum joined the Theory Group of the newly formed International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley. From 1992 to 1996 she also served as Deputy Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley. The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) is a non-profit research lab located in Berkeley, California, and is affiliated with UC Berkeley. ... The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), founded in 1982, is a mathematical research institution whose funding sources include the National Science Foundation. ...

Straddling the historic handover of Hong Kong from Britain to the People's Republic of China on July 1, 1997, Blum's two years, 1996-1998, at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) were productive ones. While Visiting Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at CityU, she completed her book, Complexity and Real Computation (Springer), with colleagues and co-authors Felipe Cucker, Mike Shub and Steve Smale. // Overview The City University of Hong Kong (Traditional Chinese: 香港城市大學) is one of the universities in Hong Kong. ...

In the fall of 1999, Blum joined the faculty of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University where she is Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and co-Director of ALADDIN: A Center for ALgorithm, ADaption, Dissemination and INtegration (funded by the National Science Foundation).

Lenore Blum's research, from her early work in model theory and differential fields (logic and algebra) to her more recent work with Shub and Smale in developing a theory of computation and complexity over the real numbers (mathematics and computer science), has focused on merging seemingly unrelated areas. In 1990 she was invited to talk on this latter work at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto. She has also given numerous invited talks at international conferences in the United States, Europe, China, Southeast Asia, the former Soviet Union, Latin America and Africa.

Blum is well known for her work in increasing the participation of girls and women in mathematics and scientific fields. She was instrumental in founding the Association for Women in Mathematics (serving as its third President from 1975 to 1978), the Math/Science Network and its Expanding Your Horizons conferences for high school girls (serving as co-Director from 1975 to 1981) and served as co-PI for the Mills Summer Mathematics Institute for undergraduate women. At Carnegie Mellon she has been faculty advisor to the Women@SCS.

Throughout her career, Blum has been an active member of the professional societies. She served on the Council and as Vice President of the American Mathematical Society (1990-92). After representing the AMS at the Pan African Congress of Mathematicians in Nairobi, (Summer 1991), she became committed to building links between the American and African mathematics communities. She served as Chair of the AAAS Mathematics Section for the years 1998-99.

In 1979 Blum was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In June 1999, on the 25th anniversary of the founding the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Mills College, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.

Lenore is married to Manuel Blum and mother of Avrim Blum, both also MIT alumni and professors of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. Manuel Blum (born 26 April 1938) is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking. Some of his work includes the Blum Blum Shub pseudorandom number generator, the... Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ...

External links

• Lenore Blum's Home Page
• Some of Lenore Blum's publications