Ronald L. Rivest
Professor Rivest is
an
Institute Professor
at
MIT.
He joined MIT in 1974 as a faculty member in the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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.
He is a co-author (with Cormen, Leiserson, and Stein) of the text,
Introduction to Algorithms.
He is also a founder of
RSA Data Security,
now named
RSA Security
(the security division of EMC), Versign, and Peppercoin.
Professor Rivest has research interests in cryptography, computer and
network security, electronic voting, and algorithms.