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Leonard Adleman
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American computer scientist
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Leonard Max Adleman is an American computer scientist, mathematician, cryptographer, and molecular biologist born in San Francisco in 1945. He has been employed by the University of Southern California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His academic background includes education at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California Botanical Garden.
Adleman is recognized for his work in cryptography, specifically the Adleman–Pomerance–Rumely primality test and DNA computing. He received the Turing Award and the Paris Kanellakis Award, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the ACM. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Association for Computing Machinery.
His doctoral advisor was Manuel Blum, and his doctoral student was Fred Cohen. Adleman has an Erdős number of 2. He is also recognized in the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Primality testing and Abelian varieties over finite fields
- Algorithmic number theory
- Primality testing and Abelian varieties over finitefields
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Official website
Department of Computer Science, Department of Molecular Biology
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Max
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- San Francisco
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Award
- ACM Fellow
- Notable work
- DNA computing
- Doctoral advisor
- Manuel Blum
- Doctoral student
- Fred Cohen
- Field of work
- cryptography
- Official website
- adleman.usc.edu
- Image
- Len-mankin-pic.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1945-12-31
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Commons category
- Leonard Adleman
- Erdős number
- 2
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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