Ronald L. Rivest - Code Breaking Insights

March 15, 2011
Cambridge, MA

Ronald L. Rivest is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a member of the lab's Theory of Computation Group and a founder of its Cryptography and Information Security Group. Rivest's research interests include cryptography, computer and network security, voting systems, and algorithms. Among his awards he was a co-winner of the 2000 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, the 2002 ACM Turing Award, and the 2009 NEC C&C Prize. He is a recipient of the Secure Computing Lifetime Achievement Award and the MITX Lifetime Achievement Award; in 2007, he received both the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference Distinguished Innovator Award and the Marconi Prize. Rivest has served as a Director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and as a Director of the Financial Cryptography Association. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the International Association for Cryptographic Research. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy in 1993.