Ben-Zion "Benny" Chor (Hebrew: בני חור) (23 December 1956 – 10 June 2021) was an Israeli computer scientist.
Beyond cryptography, he also made important contributions in distributed shared-memory consensus and in the discovery of patterns in gene expression data.
He was an undergraduate mathematics student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduating in 1980 and earning a master's degree there in 1981.
[5] After postdoctoral research at MIT and Harvard University,[1] Chor became a faculty member at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from 1987 to 1999.
[1][3] Chor was the coauthor, with Amir Rubenstein, of the book Computational Thinking for Life Scientists: Using Algorithms in Biological Research, published posthumously by the Cambridge University Press in 2022.