Leonard Adleman

Leonard Adleman
Born
Leonard Max Adleman

(1945-12-31) December 31, 1945 (age 78)
San Francisco, California, US
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA, PhD)
Known forRSA
AwardsTuring Award (2002)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Cryptography
InstitutionsUniversity of Southern California
Thesis Number-Theoretic Aspects of Computational Complexity  (1976)
Doctoral advisorManuel 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.

  1. ^ "Leonard M. Adleman | American computer scientist". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2015-11-24.