Yael Tauman Kalai’s breakthroughs secure our digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum future. The post The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Yael Tauman Kalai is a pioneering theoretical computer scientist who’s won impressive awards and changed the way people think about the internet. But as a kid, she wasn’t exactly a model student. “I was a troublemaker,” she said. “I was basically — not quite, but basically — kicked out of high school.” Kalai was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, in an academic family. Her father, Yair Tauman…