Ronald L. Rivest

Dr. Ronald L. Rivest is the Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also a founder of RSA Data Security.

He is most famous for his work on Public-key encryption with Len Adleman and Adi Shamir, specifically the RSA algorithm, for which they won the 2002 ACM Turing Award.

He is also the co-author of Introduction to Algorithms, the standard textbook on algorithms used in most introductory courses on combinatorial algorithms.

External Links

• Ronald Rivest's homepage: " class="external">http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/