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5 total works indexed
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,277x
- A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems
· 1978 · cited 11,773x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,205x
- IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP
· 2013 · cited 9,541x
- Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans
· 2016 · cited 9,062x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1947-05-06 ) May 6, 1947 (age 79) , Schenectady, New York , U.S.
- Education
- Yale University ( BA ), Stanford University ( MS , PhD )
- Known for
- Public-key , RSA , RC2 , RC4 , RC5 , RC6 , MD2 , MD4 , MD5 , MD6 , Ring signature
- Awards
- Paris Kanellakis Award (1996) Turing Award (2002) Marconi Prize (2007) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2017) National Inventors Hall of Fame (2018)
- Fields
- Algorithms Cryptography Machine learning Election security
- Institutions
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Thesis
- Analysis of associative retrieval algorithms (1974)
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert W. Floyd
- Doctoral students
- Margrit Betke Avrim Blum Benny Chor Sally Goldman Burt Kaliski Andrea LaPaugh Anna Lysyanskaya Ron Pinter Robert Schapire Alan Sherman Mona Singh Donna Slonim
- Website
- people .csail .mit .edu /rivest /
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Encyclopedic overview
Ronald Linn Rivest (/rɪˈvɛst/; born May 6, 1947) 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 Intelligence Laboratory.
Along with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, Rivest is one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm, for which they won the 2002 ACM Turing Award. He is also the inventor of the symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2, RC4, and RC5, and co-inventor of RC6. (RC stands for "Rivest Cipher".) He also devised the MD2, MD4, MD5 and MD6 cryptographic hash functions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ron Rivest” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.