Leonard Adleman
Leonard Adleman | |
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Born | Leonard Max Adleman December 31, 1945 San Francisco, California, US |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Known for | RSA |
Awards | 2002 Turing Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science, Cryptography |
Institutions | University of Southern California |
Thesis | Number-Theoretic Aspects of Computational Complexity (1976) |
Doctoral advisor | Manuel Blum |
Leonard Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist. He is one of the creators of the RSA encryption algorithm, for which he received the 2002 Turing Award.[1] He is also known for the creation of the field of DNA computing.
Biography
Leonard M. Adleman was born to a
Adleman is also an amateur boxer and has sparred with James Toney.[7]
Discovery
In 1994, his paper Molecular Computation of Solutions To Combinatorial Problems described the experimental use of
In 2002, he and his research group managed to solve a 'nontrivial' problem using DNA computation.[11] Specifically, they solved a 20-variable SAT problem having more than 1 million potential solutions. They did it in a manner similar to the one Adleman used in his seminal 1994 paper. First, a mixture of DNA strands logically representative of the problem's solution space was synthesized. This mixture was then operated upon algorithmically using biochemical techniques to winnow out the 'incorrect' strands, leaving behind only those strands that 'satisfied' the problem. Analysis of the nucleotide sequence of these remaining strands revealed 'correct' solutions to the original problem.[1]
He is one of the original discoverers of the Adleman–Pomerance–Rumely primality test.[12][13]
Fred Cohen, in his 1984 paper, Experiments with Computer Viruses credited Adleman with coining the term "computer virus".[14]
As of 2017, Adleman is working on the mathematical theory of Strata. He is a Computer Science professor at the University of Southern California.[15]
Awards
For his contribution to the invention of the
See also
References
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- ^ a b Leonard (Len) Max Adleman 2002 Recipient of the ACM Turing Award Interviewed by Hugh Williams, August 18, 2016 amturing.acm.org
- ^ Leonard Adleman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Sneakers". www.usc.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-11-01. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
- ^ "NAE Website - Dr. Leonard M. Adleman". www.nae.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
- ^ "Leonard Adleman". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
- ^ Professor Adleman versus World Champion Boxer – YouTube
- ^ "Adleman Papers". www.usc.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
- PMID 7973651. Archived from the original(PDF) on November 25, 2015.
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- ISSN 0036-8075.
- ^ Primality testing algorithms [after Adleman, Rumely and Williams], volume 901 of Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer Berlin. 1981.
- ^ "NAE Website - DNA Computing by Self-Assembly". www.nae.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
- ^ Cohen, Fred (1984), Computer Viruses – Theory and Experiments
- ^ "Adleman, Leonard - USC Viterbi Department of Computer Science". www.cs.usc.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-08-22. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- ^ "ACM Names 71 Fellows for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation". Association for Computing Machinery. January 19, 2022. Retrieved 2022-01-19.