COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Ron Rivest

1947 - Today

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Ronald Linn Rivest (; born May 6, 1947) is an American cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics, cryptography, machine learning, and election integrity. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a member of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Along with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, Rivest is one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm. He is also the inventor of the symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2, RC4, and RC5, and co-inventor of RC6. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ron Rivest has received more than 647,336 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Ron Rivest is the 62nd most popular computer scientist (up from 71st in 2019), the 3,882nd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,418th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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  • 3.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ron Rivest ranks 62 out of 245. Before him are Warren Weaver, Larry Wall, Ole-Johan Dahl, James H. Wilkinson, Alfred Aho, and Pierre Bézier. After him are Jay Wright Forrester, Edward Feigenbaum, Charles P. Thacker, Dana Scott, Martin Hellman, and Gary Kildall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Ron Rivest ranks 280. Before him are Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein, Joe Morton, Ann Hui, Adam Cheng, Martin Winterkorn, and Michael McKean. After him are Mick Box, Viktor Yerofeyev, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Jacki Weaver, Aziz Dweik, and Haruomi Hosono.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ron Rivest ranks 3,882 out of 20,380. Before him are Winnaretta Singer (1865), Doug Savant (1964), James Quinn (1906), Emily Warren Roebling (1843), Lois Lowry (1937), and Benjamin Libet (1916). After him are Olivia Rodrigo (2003), Mimsy Farmer (1945), Greg Kinnear (1963), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), William Stewart Halsted (1852), and Paul Reiser (1957).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Ron Rivest ranks 37. Before him are Leslie Lamport (1941), Edwin Catmull (1945), Vernor Vinge (1944), Don Norman (1935), Warren Weaver (1894), and Larry Wall (1954). After him are Jay Wright Forrester (1918), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), Charles P. Thacker (1943), Dana Scott (1932), Martin Hellman (1945), and Gary Kildall (1942).

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