| Native name | שמעון אבן |
|---|---|
| Birth date | June 15, 1935 |
| Birth place | Tel Aviv, British Mandate for Palestine (present-day Israel) |
| Death date | May 1, 2004 (aged 68) |
| Field | Computer Science, Cryptography |
| Work institution | Technion, Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Hao Wang |
| Doctoral students | Oded Goldreich, Baruch Awerbuch |
Shimon Even (Hebrew: שמעון אבן; June 15, 1935 – May 1, 2004) was an Israeli computer science researcher. His main topics of interest included, algorithms, graph theory and cryptography. He was a member of the Computer Science Department at the Technion, since 1974. Shimon Even was the PhD advisor of Oded Goldreich, a prominent cryptographer.
Books
- Algorithmic Combinatorics, Macmillan, 1973.
- Graph Algorithms, Computer Science Press, 1979. ISBN 0-7167-8044-5.