Leonard Adleman
Leonard Adleman | |
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| Born | Leonard Max Adleman December 31, 1945 San Francisco, California, US |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA, MA, 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. He is also known for the creation of the field of DNA computing and coining the term computer virus.