Ronald L. Rivest, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Position:
- Not Clearly Pro or Con to the question "Do Electronic Voting Machines Improve the Voting Process?"
- Reasoning:
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“Electronic voting systems offer improved ease-of-use and flexibility. They do not intrinsically offer improved security.”
Testimony before U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration, May 24, 2001
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
- Member, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
- Advisory Board, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
- Former Director, International Association for Cryptologic Research and Financial Cryptography Association
- Elected Member, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences
- Elected Fellow, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM); International Association for Cryptographic Research; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and World Technology Network
- MITX Lifetime Achievement Award, 2005
- ACM Turing Award, 2002
- Testified before U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration about security in voting technology, May 24, 2001
- Co-recipient, IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award and Secure Computing Lifetime Achievement Award, 2000
- Education:
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- PhD, Computer Science, Stanford University, 1974
- BA, Mathematics, Yale University, 1969
- Other:
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- None found
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