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LEONARD ADLEMAN (1945- present) |
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| Leonard Adleman received a B.S.
in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of California at Berkeley in 1968 and 1976,
respectively. He was a member of the faculty of
mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
from 1976 to 1980, where he contributed to the invention
of the RSA Public-Key Cryptosystem, as well as
its related algorithms. He is also well known for his
work with DNA computing. More recently, he has been the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. He has also researched computer viruses . His other research interests include the computational complexity, number theory, molecular computation, molecular biology, immunology and computer viruses. Dr. Adleman is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Additional information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Adleman Photo courtesy of http://www.usc.edu/dept/molecular-science/pictures/fi-len-mankin-pic.jpg
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