Roger Wattenhofer

{{Short description|Swiss computer scientist (born 1969)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1969|11|17}}

| birth_place = Schwyz, Switzerland

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| nationality = Swiss

| fields = Computer Science

| workplaces = ETH Zurich, Brown University, Microsoft Research

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| alma_mater = ETH Zurich

| thesis_title = Distributed Counting – How to Bypass Bottlenecks

| thesis_url = https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-002015403

| thesis_year = 1998

| doctoral_advisor = Peter Widmayer

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Roger Wattenhofer,[http://dcg.ethz.ch/members/wroger.html Roger Wattenhofer's personal page] on ETH Zurich's website born in 1969, is a Swiss computer scientist, active in the field of distributed computing, networking, and algorithms.{{cite web|title=Biographies of Invited Speakers|url=http://algo.math.ntua.gr/~gd2016/index.php?id=invited-speakers|website=24th International Symposium on Graph Drawing & Network Visualization}}{{cite web|title=Keynote by Prof. Roger Wattenhofer|url=http://sensys.acm.org/2017/keynote/|website=ACM SenSys 2017}} He is a professor at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) since 2001. He has published numerous research articles in computer science[http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/w/Wattenhofer:Roger Roger Wattenhofer's bibliography] on DBLP{{cite web|title=Roger Wattenhofer|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EG3VPm4AAAAJ|website=Google Scholar}} and a book on Bitcoin.

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| title = The science of the blockchain

| date = 2016

| publisher = Inverted Forest Publishing

| isbn = 978-1-5227-5183-0

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In 2012, Wattenhofer won the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing, awarded annually at the SIROCCO conference.Idit Keidar, [http://people.csail.mit.edu/idish/sigactNews/DC-col50-Jun13.pdf ACM-SIGACT News Distributed Computing Column, June 2013] Together with Christian Decker in 2014,{{cite book|last1=Decker|first1=Christian|last2=Wattenhofer|first2=Roger|title=Computer Security - ESORICS 2014 |chapter=Bitcoin Transaction Malleability and MtGox |date=1 January 2014|volume=8713|pages=313–326|language=English|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-11212-1_18|series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science|isbn=978-3-319-11211-4|arxiv=1403.6676|s2cid=14555943}} he uncovered that nearly 850,000 of the Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox could not have been stolen by malleability attacks, as claimed by Mt. Gox.{{Cite web | url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-mt-gox-bitcoin-debacle-an-update | title=The Mt. Gox Bitcoin Debacle: An Update| date=2015-11-03}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/526161/the-troubling-holes-in-mtgoxs-account-of-how-it-lost-600-million-in-bitcoins/ | title=The Troubling Holes in MtGox's Account of How It Lost $600 Million in Bitcoins}}

In 2017, he appeared in a movie about the Blockchain.{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8959008/ | title=Roger Wattenhofer| website=IMDb}}