Awarded ACM Fellow (2020).
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Martin Edward Hellman
Martin Edward Hellman is an American cryptologist and mathematician, best known for his invention of public-key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman is a longtime contributor to the computer privacy debate, and has applied risk analysis to a potential failure of nuclear deterrence.
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science · American cryptologist and academic (born 1945) · cryptographer · mathematician · computer scientist · academic · university teacher · electrical engineer · also Martin Edward Hellman, Martin Hellman, Martin E. Hellman, E.Hellman, Hellman
Born 2 October 1945 · Q476466
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2020· 1 entry
2016· 1 entry
Wrote a book with his wife, Dorothie Hellman, that links creating love at home to bringing peace to the planet (A New Map for Relationships: Creating True Love at Home and Peace on the Planet)
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded Turing Award (2015).
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And Whitfield Diffie won the ACM Turing Award
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded National Cyber Security Hall of Fame (2012).
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2011· 4 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2011).
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Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2011).
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Hellman was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum for his work, with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle, on public key cryptography
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Was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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2010· 1 entry
Won IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2010).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded IACR Fellow (2006).
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2002· 1 entry
For contributions to the theory and practice of cryptography
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2000· 3 entries
Awarded Marconi Prize (2000).
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Won the Marconi Prize for his invention of public-key cryptography to protect privacy on the Internet, also together with Whit Diffie
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For work on public-key cryptography and for helping make cryptography a legitimate area of academic research, and they were awarded the 2015 Turing Award for the same work
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
Hellman was a Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society, and in 2010 the IEEE Richard W
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1997· 3 entries
Won Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute (1997).
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Custom hardware brute force crackers were built that could break DES, making it clear that DES was insecure and obsolete
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Was awarded The Franklin Institute's Louis E
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Paris Kanellakis Award (1996).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded EFF Award (1994).
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1987· 1 entry
More than 30 scholars came together to produce Russian and English editions of the book Breakthrough: Emerging New Thinking, Soviet and Western Scholars Issue a Challenge to Build a World Beyond War
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
Martin Hellman was elevated to the grade of IEEE fellow for contribution to cryptography
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1976· 1 entry
With Dennis Branstad of NBS and representatives of the National Security Agency
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1971· 1 entry
As an assistant professor and served on the full-time faculty for twenty-five years before taking emeritus status as a full professor in 1996
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1969· 1 entry
Studied at Stanford University, Doctor (1969).
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1966· 1 entry
And at Stanford University he received a master's degree and a Ph
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1945· 1 entry
Born 1945-10-02.
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