title: Shimon Even
text: # Shimon Even
  
  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.
  