Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2018).
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Ron Rivest
Ronald Linn Rivest is an American cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics, cryptography, machine learning, and election integrity. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a member of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and its Computer Science and Artificial Intel…
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science · American cryptographer (born 1947) · mathematician · cryptologist · computer scientist · university teacher · information professional · scientist · also Ron Rivest, Ronald Linn Rivest, Ronald L. Rivest, Rivest
Born 6 May 1947 · Q578036
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2017).
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2016· 1 entry
Ars Technica: Topic: ron rivest
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Marconi Prize (2007).
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The Marconi Fellow, and on May 29, 2008, he also gave the Chesley lecture at Carleton College
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2005· 1 entry
Received the MITX Lifetime Achievement Award
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded IACR Fellow (2004).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Turing Award (2002).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for RSA cryptosystem (2000).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Paris Kanellakis Award (1996).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Fellow (1994).
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1990· 2 entries
And 1992 respectively,[C4][C5] and a sequence of symmetric key block ciphers that include RC2, RC4, RC5, and RC6
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It has extended into four editions, the latest in 2022
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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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1973· 1 entry
Rivest and his coauthors published the first selection algorithm that achieved linear time without using randomization
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1947· 1 entry
Born 1947-05-06.
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