Michael Reiter (computer scientist)

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

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|workplaces = Duke University
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Carnegie Mellon
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|alma_mater = North Carolina
Cornell

|doctoral_advisor = Kenneth P. Birman

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|awards = Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

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Michael K. Reiter is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a James B. Duke Professor at Duke University. He was formerly the Lawrence M. Slifkin Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.unc.edu/cms/our-people/faculty/michael-k.-reiter/?searchterm=reiter|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130626183217/http://www.cs.unc.edu/cms/our-people/faculty/michael-k.-reiter/?searchterm=reiter|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 26, 2013|title=Faculty Biography: Michael Reiter|work=People|publisher=Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|accessdate=February 20, 2010}} He was previously a professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Reiter's research interests are in computer and communications security and distributed computing.