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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Ron Rivest

1947 - Today

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Ronald Linn Rivest (; born May 6, 1947) is a 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 588,081 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Ron Rivest is the 71st most popular computer scientist (down from 58th in 2019), the 4,430th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,074th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ron Rivest ranks 71 out of 201Before him are Adam Osborne, Dana Scott, Mary Kenneth Keller, John Draper, John Henry Holland, and John Cocke. After him are Judea Pearl, James H. Wilkinson, Leonard Adleman, Ed Roberts, Ivar Jacobson, and Martin Hellman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Ron Rivest ranks 299Before him are Jean Echenoz, Bernard Giraudeau, Andréa Ferréol, Jozef De Kesel, David Zucker, and Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov. After him are Adam Cheng, Mirza Khazar, Mel Collins, Alaksandar Milinkievič, Gunter Demnig, and Apasra Hongsakula.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ron Rivest ranks 4,430 out of 18,182Before him are Vince Gilligan (1967), Paul Butterfield (1942), James J. Corbett (1866), Tab Hunter (1931), Nick Cassavetes (1959), and Chris Hardwick (1971). After him are Victor Wong (1927), Michael Cristofer (1945), Mehmet Oz (1960), Meriwether Lewis (1774), John R. Commons (1862), and Robert Mueller (1944).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Ron Rivest ranks 44Before him are Larry Tesler (1945), Gary Kildall (1942), Dana Scott (1932), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), John Henry Holland (1929), and John Cocke (1925). After him are Leonard Adleman (1945), Ed Roberts (1941), Martin Hellman (1945), Stephen Cook (1939), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), and David A. Huffman (1925).