Leonard Adleman
Computer Scientist
1945 –
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Who is Leonard Adleman?
Leonard Max Adleman is an American theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA cryptosystem in 1977, and of DNA computing. RSA is in widespread use in security applications, including https.
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- Born
- Dec 31, 1945
San Francisco - Also known as
- Leonard Max Adleman
- Len
- Leonard M. Adleman
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Doctorate, University of California, Berkeley
EECS
( - 1976) - Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Berkeley
Mathematics
( - 1968)
- Doctorate, University of California, Berkeley
- Employment
- Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California
- Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Southern California
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- San Francisco
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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