Awarded ACM Fellow (2021).
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Leonard Adleman
Leonard Max Adleman is an American computer scientist. He is one of the creators of the RSA encryption algorithm, for which he received the 2002 Turing Award. He is also known for the creation of the field of DNA computing and coining the term computer virus.
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science · American computer scientist (born 1945) · computer scientist · mathematician · cryptographer · molecular biologist · programmer · university teacher · also Leonard Adleman, Leonard Max Adleman, Leonard M. Adleman, Len Adleman, Adleman
Born 31 December 1945 · Q918650
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2018).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded National Cyber Security Hall of Fame (2012).
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Turing Award (2002).
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And his research group managed to solve a 'nontrivial' problem using DNA computation
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for RSA cryptosystem (2000).
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded Paris Kanellakis Award (1996).
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Became a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the theory of computation and cryptography
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1994· 1 entry
His paper Molecular Computation of Solutions To Combinatorial Problems described the experimental use of DNA as a computational system
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1978· 1 entry
Published “A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems” in Communications of the ACM — cited 11,799 times.
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1945· 1 entry
Born 1945-12-31.
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