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Born July 6, 1952 (age 72) • Tel Aviv–Yafo • Israel
Awards And Honors Turing Award (2002)
Inventions RSA encryption
Subjects Of Study digital certificate • data encryption • cryptographic key • public-key cryptography
Adleman, Leonard M.
Leonard M. Adleman
American computer scientist
Ronald L. Rivest
American computer scientist
Michael Oser Rabin
Israeli American mathematician
Alan Jay Perlis
American mathematician and computer scientist
Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland
American electrical engineer and computer scientist
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
Chinese American computer scientist
Minsky, Marvin
Marvin Minsky
American scientist
Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist
Amir Pnueli
Israeli computer scientist
Joseph Weizenbaum
American computer scientist
Vannevar Bush with Differential Analyzer
Vannevar Bush
American engineer
Nicholas Negroponte
American architect and computer scientist
Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton
American computer scientist
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist
Vinton Gray Cerf
Vinton Cerf
American computer scientist
Maurice Wilkes
Maurice Wilkes
British computer scientist
Computer interface pioneer Douglas EngelbartEngelbart holding a video conference on the right side of the computer screen while working on a document with a remote collaborator during a 1968 computer conference in San Francisco, California.
Douglas Engelbart
American inventor
Robert Kahn
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Allen Newell
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