Leonard Adleman

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academic computer scientist cryptographer human

Leonard Adleman is an American computer scientist and cryptographer best known as one of the co-inventors of the RSA public-key cryptosystem.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → computer scientist → cryptographer → human →
academicDegree	PhD in Computer Science →
awardReceived	Göran Gustafsson Prize in Mathematics → IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award → Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award → Turing Award →
birthDate	1945-12-31 →
birthPlace	San Francisco, California, United States →
citizenship	United States of America →
coAuthorOf	original RSA paper →
coInvented	RSA public-key cryptosystem →
coInventedWith	Adi Shamir → Ron Rivest →
educatedAt	University of California, Berkeley →
employer	University of Southern California →
familyName	Adleman →
fieldOfWork	computer science → cryptography → theoretical computer science →
gender	male →
givenName	Leonard →
influenced	modern public-key cryptography →
knownFor	Adleman–Pomerance–Rumely primality test → RSA public-key cryptosystem → work in DNA computing →
languageSpoken	English →
memberOf	National Academy of Engineering → National Academy of Sciences →
name	Leonard Adleman →
nationality	American →
notableStudent	Lance Fortnow →
notableWork	“Molecular computation of solutions to combinatorial problems” →
pioneered	DNA computing →
positionHeld	Henry Salvatori Chair in Computer Science → Professor of Computer Science →
researchInterest	complexity theory → cryptographic protocols → number theory →
workplace	University of Southern California →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Adi Shamir → Ronald L. Rivest →	coAuthor
Adi Shamir →	coInventorWith
Leonard Adleman ("Adleman") →	familyName
RSA →	inventedBy
Leonard Adleman →	name
RSA →	namedAfter