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Re:2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf] by fraggle222 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @08:41PM (#23162041)
Basically invented Proof of Work (see Bitcoin):

Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor. Pricing via processing or combatting junk mail. In Proceedings of Crypto, 1992. Also available as http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il:81/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ ncstrl.weizmann_il/CS95-20.

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