Leonard Adleman | |
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Born | Leonard Max Adleman December 31, 1945 San Francisco, California, US |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BA, PhD) |
Known for | RSA |
Awards | Turing Award (2002) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science Cryptography |
Institutions | University of Southern California |
Thesis | Number-Theoretic Aspects of Computational Complexity (1976) |
Doctoral advisor | Manuel Blum |
Leonard Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist. He is one of the creators of the RSA encryption algorithm, for which he received the 2002 Turing Award.[1] He is also known for the creation of the field of DNA computing.