Ron Rivest

American cryptographer · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1947 · age 79

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.

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2018National Inventors Hall of FameAward2017BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge AwardAward2007Marconi PrizeAward2004IACR FellowAward2002Turing AwardAward2000IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications AwardAward1996Paris Kanellakis AwardAward1994ACM FellowAward1947Born6 May 1947

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National Inventors Hall of Fame2018

BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award2017

Marconi Prize2007

IACR Fellow2004

Turing Award2002

IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award2000

Paris Kanellakis Award1996

ACM Fellow1994

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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.

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