Shmuel Winograd

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Shmuel Winograd is a computer scientist, noted for his work on fast algorithms for arithmetic, and in particular for the algorithm known as the Coppersmith-Winograd algorithm and for his FFT algorithm. From 1970-1974 and 1980-1994 he was the director of the Mathematical Science Department at IBM. In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.