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Ron Rivest

1947 - Today

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Ronald Linn Rivest (; 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), 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. He is also the inventor of the symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2, RC4, and RC5, and co-inventor of RC6. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ron Rivest is the 64th most popular computer scientist (down from 62nd in 2019), the 3,887th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,882nd in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ron Rivest ranks 64 out of 245. Before him are James Gosling, Amir Pnueli, Yann LeCun, Brian Kernighan, J. C. R. Licklider, and Vernor Vinge. After him are Jean Bartik, Ruth Teitelbaum, Robert C. Martin, Leonard Adleman, Larry Wall, and James H. Wilkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Ron Rivest ranks 270. Before him are Harry Redknapp, Alan Dale, Ray Wise, António Marto, Stefan Persson, and Hugh Keays-Byrne. After him are Kailash Purryag, Deborah Lipstadt, Viktor Klima, Robert Kerman, Marouf al-Bakhit, and Jean-Yves Le Drian.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ron Rivest ranks 3,887 out of 20,380. Before him are Louise Bryant (1885), Juice Wrld (1998), Vernor Vinge (1944), Michael Chang (1972), Wilson Pickett (1941), and Keb' Mo' (1951). After him are Tony Goldwyn (1960), Philip Kaufman (1936), Jelly Roll Morton (1890), Sherilyn Fenn (1965), Philip Baker Hall (1931), and Fergie (1975).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Ron Rivest ranks 37. Before him are Allen Newell (1927), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Leslie Lamport (1941), Alan Perlis (1922), J. C. R. Licklider (1915), and Vernor Vinge (1944). After him are Jean Bartik (1924), Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), Leonard Adleman (1945), Larry Wall (1954), Jef Raskin (1943), and Richard M. Karp (1935).

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