Jeffrey Shallit

Jeffrey Outlaw Shallit (born October 17, 1957) is a computer scientist, number theorist, and a noted advocate for civil liberties on the Internet. He is married to Anna Lubiw, also a computer scientist. Shallit was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1957. His father was Joseph Shallit, a journalist and author, and a son of Jewish immigrants from Vitebsk, Russia (now in Belarus). His mother was Louise Lee Outlaw Shallit, a writer. He has one br... more

Jeffrey Outlaw Shallit (born October 17, 1957) is a computer scientist, number theorist, and a noted advocate for civil liberties on the Internet. He is married to Anna Lubiw, also a computer scientist. Shallit was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1957. His father was Joseph Shallit, a journalist and author, and a son of Jewish immigrants from Vitebsk, Russia (now in Belarus). His mother was Louise Lee Outlaw Shallit, a writer. He has one brother, Jonathan Shallit, a music professor. He earned a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from Princeton University in June 1979. He received a Ph.D., also in mathematics, from the University of California, Berkeley in June 1983. His doctoral thesis was entitled Metric Theory of Pierce Expansions and his advisor was Manuel Blum. Since 1996, Shallit has held the position of Vice-President of Electronic Frontier Canada. In 1997, he gained attention for the publication on the Internet of Holocaust Revised: Lies of Our Times (also called the... less