Leonard Adleman
American computer scientist
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Leonard Adleman 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. Wikipedia
Born: 1945 (age 78 years), San Francisco, CA
Education: University of California, Berkeley (1976) and University of California, Berkeley (1968)
Awards: Turing Award
Known for: RSA
Doctoral advisor: Manuel Blum
Thesis: Number-Theoretic Aspects of Computational Complexity (1976)