@article{6955c8eb75624183845114344829fdc6,
title = "Special issue in honor of the 60th birthday of Amihood Amir",
author = "Gary Benson and Martin Farach-Colton and Moshe Lewenstein and Ely Porat",
note = "Funding Information: Amir coauthored approximately 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers. His research has been funded by most of the major Israeli funding agencies, and by bi-national grants of Israel{\textendash}US, Israel{\textendash}Italy, Israel{\textendash}Korea, Israel{\textendash}UK, Israel{\textendash}Finland, Israel{\textendash}France. He has also been PI or co-PI 10 times for US National Science Foundation grants. He serves on the Information and Computation editorial board and has served on numerous program committees, including STOC, CPM, SPIRE, LATIN, ESA, WABI and LATA. He co-chaired the Conference for Pattern Matching in 2001 and 2010 and the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval in 2008. Amir is one of the founders of the Israel Stringology Workshop. He was invited to be the keynote speaker in WSP 1997, CompBioNets 2004, PSC 2004, CPM 2006, AWOCA 2008, and SPIRE 2012.",
year = "2016",
month = jul,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1016/j.tcs.2016.05.039",
language = "English",
volume = "638",
pages = "1--2",
journal = "Theoretical Computer Science",
issn = "0304-3975",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
}