Fred B. Schneider

{{Short description|American computer scientist}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|12|07|mf=y}}

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| nationality = American

| fields = Computer science

| workplaces = Cornell University

| alma_mater = Stony Brook University

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| doctoral_advisor = Arthur Jay Bernstein

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| known_for = Distributed computing

| awards = IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2012)
NAE (2011)
IEEE Fellow (2008)
ACM Fellow (1995)
AAAS Fellow (1992)

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Fred Barry Schneider (born December 7, 1953{{cite web| title=Fred B. Schneider Vita | url=http://www.osti.gov/eprints/topicpages/documents/record/835/1607302.html | website=U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015950/http://www.osti.gov/eprints/topicpages/documents/record/835/1607302.html |archive-date=5 March 2016|url-status=dead}}) is an American computer scientist, based at Cornell University, where he is the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science.[http://www.cs.cornell.edu/fbs/biog.html Fred B. Schneider — biography], Cornell University, USA.Baaba Andam, [http://www.cis.cornell.edu/schneider.html Fred B. Schneider — Network Security Systems: Building a Better Defense], Faculty of Computing and Information Science, Cornell University, USA. He has published in numerous areas including science policy, cybersecurity, and distributed systems.[http://www.cs.cornell.edu/fbs/fullist.html Fred B. Schneider Publications], Cornell University, USA. His research is in the area of concurrent and distributed systems for high-integrity and mission-critical applications.

Schneider received a B.Sc. degree in Engineering from Cornell University in 1975 followed by a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University where he was a student of Arthur J. Bernstein. In Fall 1978, he joined the faculty at Cornell University.

He has been editor-in-chief of Distributed Computing and associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Security and Privacy. He has also edited ACM Computing Surveys, High Integrity Systems, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and Information Processing Letters.

Schneider is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1992), the Association for Computing Machinery (1995), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2008), and the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.{{citation|url=https://www.ntva.no/medlemmer/|title=Medlemmer|publisher=Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences|accessdate=2020-04-06}} He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 for contributions to the design of trustworthy and secure computer systems.

In 1996, Schneider was named Professor-at-Large at the University of Tromsø, Norway.[http://www.educause.edu/Community/MemDir/Profiles/FredBSchneider/66567 Fred B. Schneider — biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607002809/http://www.educause.edu/Community/MemDir/Profiles/FredBSchneider/66567 |date=2011-06-07 }}, EDUCAUSE, USA.

In 2003, he was awarded an honorary DSc degree by Newcastle University in the United Kingdom.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/about/hon_degrees/ |title=Newcastle University, School of Computing, Honorary Degree |access-date=2017-11-15 |archive-date=2017-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115222427/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/about/hon_degrees/ |url-status=dead }}

He was named as the recipient of the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award for 2012.{{cite web|title=IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Recipients|url=http://www.ieee.org/documents/piore_rl.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130217000243/http://www.ieee.org/documents/piore_rl.pdf|archive-date=February 17, 2013|access-date=March 20, 2021|publisher=IEEE}}

In 2018 he and Bowen Alpern received the Dijkstra Prize for their 1985 paper "Defining liveness".[https://www.podc.org/dijkstra/2018-dijkstra-prize 2018 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing], ACM Principles of Distributed Computing 2018