Biography
Ronald Linn Rivest ( / r ɪ ˈ v ɛ s t / ; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] born May 6, 1947) is an American cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics, cryptography, machine learning, and election integrity. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), [ 5 ] and a member of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory . Along with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman , Rivest is one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm, for which they won the 2002 ACM Turing Award . He is also the inventor of the symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2 , RC4 , and RC5 , and co-inventor of RC6 . ( RC stands for "Rivest Cipher".) He also devised the MD2 , MD4 , MD5 and MD6 cryptographic hash functions . Rivest earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University in 1969, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1974 for research supervised by Robert W. Floyd . [ 1 ] Fields: Algorithms, Cryptography, Machine learning, Election security Education: Yale University BA Stanford University MS PhD Award Citation: .mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0} Paris Kanellakis Award (1996) Turing Award (2002) Marconi Prize (2007) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2017) National Inventors Hall of Fame (2018)
About the Turing Award
The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and is colloquially known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing."
Quick Facts
- Award: ACM A.M. Turing Award
- Added: 2026-02-07
- Source: Wikipedia
- Prize: $1,000,000 (USD)
- Presented by: ACM
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Notable Winners
- Donald Knuth (1974)
- Tim Berners-Lee (2016)
- Geoffrey Hinton (2018)
- Yoshua Bengio (2018)
- Yann LeCun (2018)