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[[FILE:rivest_photo.jpg|border|right|thumb|240px|link=http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/| Ronald L. Rivest <ref>[http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/ Ronald L. Rivest : HomePage]</ref> ]]
'''Ronald (Ron) Linn Rivest''',<br/>
an American mathematician, computer scientist and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography cryptographer],
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Viterbi Andrew and Erna Viterbi] Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT's]] Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory] (CSAIL).
Ron Rivest is one of the inventors of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA RSA algorithm] (with [[Mathematician#AShamir|Adi Shamir]] and [[Mathematician#LAdleman|Leonard Adleman]]) <ref>[http://www.candc.or.jp/kensyo/2009/group_b.pdf RSA] (pdf)</ref>, and inventor of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_key symmetric key] encryption algorithms [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC2 RC2], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4_%28cipher%29 RC4], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC5 RC5], co-inventor of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC6 RC6], designer of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function cryptographic hash functions] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD2_%28cryptography%29 MD2], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD4 MD4] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5 MD5] message-digest algorithms, co-designer of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD6 MD6], and co-author (with [[Charles Leiserson]] et al.) of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms Introduction to Algorithms].
He further researched and published on [[Learning|machine learning]] and [[Search|game tree search]] by Min/Max approximation <ref>[[Ronald L. Rivest]] ('''1987'''). ''Game Tree Searching by Min/Max Approximation''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_(journal) Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 34, No. 1</ref>.
=Photos=
[[FILE:rsa-photo.jpeg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/photos/rsa-photo.jpeg]]
[[Mathematician#AShamir|Adi]], Ron, and [[Mathematician#LAdleman|Len]] <ref>[http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/photos/photos.html Ronald L. Rivest: Photos]</ref> <ref>[https://www.simplethread.com/The-Programmer-Dress-Code---Part-Deux/ The Programmer Dress Code – Part Deux | CodeThinked] by [https://github.com/jetheredge Justin Etheredge], December 11, 2007</ref>
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/publications.html Ronald L. Rivest: Publications and Talks]</ref> <ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref> <ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/r/Rivest:Ronald_L= dblp: Ronald L. Rivest]</ref>
==1987 ...==
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]] ('''1987'''). ''Game Tree Searching by Min/Max Approximation''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_(journal) Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 34, No. 1, [http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rivest-GameTreeSearchingByMinMaxApproximation.pdf pdf 1995]
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]] ('''1987'''). ''Learning Decision Lists''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_%28journal%29 Machine Learning], Vol. 2, [https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/Riv87b.pdf pdf]
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [[Robert Schapire]] ('''1987'''). ''Diversity-Based Inference of Finite Automata''. (Extended Abstract) [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/focs/focs87.html#RivestS87 FOCS 1987], [https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RS87c.pdf pdf]
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [[Robert Schapire]] ('''1989'''). ''Inference of Finite Automata Using Homing Sequences''. (Extended Abstract) [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/stoc/stoc89.html#RivestS89 STOC 1989], [https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/RivestSchapire-InferenceOfFiniteAutomataUsingHomingSequences-STOC89.pdf pdf]
==1990 ...==
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [[Robert Schapire]] ('''1990'''). ''A new approach to unsupervised learning in deterministic environments''. in [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=120048 Machine learning: an artificial intelligence approach volume III], [https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RS87a.prepub.pdf pdf preprint]
* [[Mathematician#THCormen|Thomas H. Cormen]], [[Charles Leiserson|Charles E. Leiserson]], [[Ronald L. Rivest]] ('''1990'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms Introduction to Algorithms]''. (1st edition). MIT Press and McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-262-03141-8.
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [[Robert Schapire]] ('''1994'''). ''Diversity-Based Inference of Finite Automata''. [[ACM#Journal|Journal of the ACM]], Vol. 41, No. 3, [https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~schapire/papers/diversity-based-inference.pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[Mathematician#THCormen|Thomas H. Cormen]], [[Charles Leiserson|Charles E. Leiserson]], [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [[Mathematician#CliffordStein|Clifford Stein]] ('''2001'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms Introduction to Algorithms, 2nd Edition]''. ISBN 0-262-53196-8.
* [[Mathematician#THCormen|Thomas H. Cormen]], [[Charles Leiserson|Charles E. Leiserson]], [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [[Mathematician#CliffordStein|Clifford Stein]] ('''2009'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition]''. ISBN 0-262-03384-4.
==2010 ...==
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]] ('''2011'''). ''The invertibility of the XOR of rotations of a binary word''. [https://dblp1.uni-trier.de/db/journals/ijcm/ijcm88.html International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Vol. 88], [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8177/7b0bb30aa7ca12f9a1aea57691a6fb1e1249.pdf 2009 pdf preprint]
* [[Erik D. Demaine]], [[Martin L. Demaine]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yair_Minsky Yair N. Minsky], [[Mathematician#JSBMitchell|Joseph S. B. Mitchell]], [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai_P%C4%83tra%C8%99cu Mihai Pătrașcu] ('''2012'''). ''Picture-Hanging Puzzles.''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3602 arXiv:1203.3602]
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5EMVIoEAAAAJ&hl=en Philip B. Stark] ('''2017'''). ''[https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/sp/2017/03/msp2017030048-abs.html When Is an Election Verifiable]''? [[IEEE]] Security & Privacy
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]] ('''2018'''). ''Consistent Sampling with Replacement.'' [https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10016 arXiv:1808.10016]
* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uWNrcTUAAAAJ&hl=en Soheil Behnezhad], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avrim_Blum Avrim Blum], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fkGRlH0AAAAJ&hl=en Mahsa Derakhshan], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Hajiaghayi Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0lZoXCUAAAAJ&hl=en Mohammad Mahdian], [[Mathematician#CHPapadimitriou|Christos H. Papadimitriou]], [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SAEI0jwAAAAJ&hl=en Saeed Seddighin], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5EMVIoEAAAAJ&hl=en Philip B. Stark] ('''2018'''). ''[https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/1.9781611975031.148 From Battlefields to Elections: Winning Strategies of Blotto and Auditing Games]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/soda/soda2018.html SODA 2018] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blotto_game Blotto game from Wikipedia]</ref>
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Rivest Ron Rivest from Wikipedia]
* [http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/ Ronald L. Rivest : HomePage]
* [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=50081 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Ronald Rivest]
* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6qE0tdAAAAAJ&hl=en Ronald L. Rivest - Google Scholar Citations]
* [http://marconisociety.org/fellows/ronald-l-rivest/ Ronald L. Rivest – Marconi Society]
=References=
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[[FILE:rivest_photo.jpg|border|right|thumb|240px|link=http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/| Ronald L. Rivest <ref>[http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/ Ronald L. Rivest : HomePage]</ref> ]]
'''Ronald (Ron) Linn Rivest''',<br/>
an American mathematician, computer scientist and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography cryptographer],
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Viterbi Andrew and Erna Viterbi] Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT's]] Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory] (CSAIL).
Ron Rivest is one of the inventors of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA RSA algorithm] (with [[Mathematician#AShamir|Adi Shamir]] and [[Mathematician#LAdleman|Leonard Adleman]]) <ref>[http://www.candc.or.jp/kensyo/2009/group_b.pdf RSA] (pdf)</ref>, and inventor of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_key symmetric key] encryption algorithms [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC2 RC2], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4_%28cipher%29 RC4], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC5 RC5], co-inventor of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC6 RC6], designer of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function cryptographic hash functions] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD2_%28cryptography%29 MD2], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD4 MD4] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5 MD5] message-digest algorithms, co-designer of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD6 MD6], and co-author (with [[Charles Leiserson]] et al.) of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms Introduction to Algorithms].
He further researched and published on [[Learning|machine learning]] and [[Search|game tree search]] by Min/Max approximation <ref>[[Ronald L. Rivest]] ('''1987'''). ''Game Tree Searching by Min/Max Approximation''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_(journal) Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 34, No. 1</ref>.
=Photos=
[[FILE:rsa-photo.jpeg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/photos/rsa-photo.jpeg]]
[[Mathematician#AShamir|Adi]], Ron, and [[Mathematician#LAdleman|Len]] <ref>[http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/photos/photos.html Ronald L. Rivest: Photos]</ref> <ref>[https://www.simplethread.com/The-Programmer-Dress-Code---Part-Deux/ The Programmer Dress Code – Part Deux | CodeThinked] by [https://github.com/jetheredge Justin Etheredge], December 11, 2007</ref>
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/publications.html Ronald L. Rivest: Publications and Talks]</ref> <ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref> <ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/r/Rivest:Ronald_L= dblp: Ronald L. Rivest]</ref>
==1987 ...==
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]] ('''1987'''). ''Game Tree Searching by Min/Max Approximation''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_(journal) Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 34, No. 1, [http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rivest-GameTreeSearchingByMinMaxApproximation.pdf pdf 1995]
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]] ('''1987'''). ''Learning Decision Lists''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_%28journal%29 Machine Learning], Vol. 2, [https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/Riv87b.pdf pdf]
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [[Robert Schapire]] ('''1987'''). ''Diversity-Based Inference of Finite Automata''. (Extended Abstract) [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/focs/focs87.html#RivestS87 FOCS 1987], [https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RS87c.pdf pdf]
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [[Robert Schapire]] ('''1989'''). ''Inference of Finite Automata Using Homing Sequences''. (Extended Abstract) [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/stoc/stoc89.html#RivestS89 STOC 1989], [https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/RivestSchapire-InferenceOfFiniteAutomataUsingHomingSequences-STOC89.pdf pdf]
==1990 ...==
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [[Robert Schapire]] ('''1990'''). ''A new approach to unsupervised learning in deterministic environments''. in [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=120048 Machine learning: an artificial intelligence approach volume III], [https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RS87a.prepub.pdf pdf preprint]
* [[Mathematician#THCormen|Thomas H. Cormen]], [[Charles Leiserson|Charles E. Leiserson]], [[Ronald L. Rivest]] ('''1990'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms Introduction to Algorithms]''. (1st edition). MIT Press and McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-262-03141-8.
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [[Robert Schapire]] ('''1994'''). ''Diversity-Based Inference of Finite Automata''. [[ACM#Journal|Journal of the ACM]], Vol. 41, No. 3, [https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~schapire/papers/diversity-based-inference.pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[Mathematician#THCormen|Thomas H. Cormen]], [[Charles Leiserson|Charles E. Leiserson]], [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [[Mathematician#CliffordStein|Clifford Stein]] ('''2001'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms Introduction to Algorithms, 2nd Edition]''. ISBN 0-262-53196-8.
* [[Mathematician#THCormen|Thomas H. Cormen]], [[Charles Leiserson|Charles E. Leiserson]], [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [[Mathematician#CliffordStein|Clifford Stein]] ('''2009'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition]''. ISBN 0-262-03384-4.
==2010 ...==
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]] ('''2011'''). ''The invertibility of the XOR of rotations of a binary word''. [https://dblp1.uni-trier.de/db/journals/ijcm/ijcm88.html International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Vol. 88], [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8177/7b0bb30aa7ca12f9a1aea57691a6fb1e1249.pdf 2009 pdf preprint]
* [[Erik D. Demaine]], [[Martin L. Demaine]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yair_Minsky Yair N. Minsky], [[Mathematician#JSBMitchell|Joseph S. B. Mitchell]], [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai_P%C4%83tra%C8%99cu Mihai Pătrașcu] ('''2012'''). ''Picture-Hanging Puzzles.''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3602 arXiv:1203.3602]
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5EMVIoEAAAAJ&hl=en Philip B. Stark] ('''2017'''). ''[https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/sp/2017/03/msp2017030048-abs.html When Is an Election Verifiable]''? [[IEEE]] Security & Privacy
* [[Ronald L. Rivest]] ('''2018'''). ''Consistent Sampling with Replacement.'' [https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10016 arXiv:1808.10016]
* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uWNrcTUAAAAJ&hl=en Soheil Behnezhad], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avrim_Blum Avrim Blum], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fkGRlH0AAAAJ&hl=en Mahsa Derakhshan], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Hajiaghayi Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0lZoXCUAAAAJ&hl=en Mohammad Mahdian], [[Mathematician#CHPapadimitriou|Christos H. Papadimitriou]], [[Ronald L. Rivest]], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SAEI0jwAAAAJ&hl=en Saeed Seddighin], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5EMVIoEAAAAJ&hl=en Philip B. Stark] ('''2018'''). ''[https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/1.9781611975031.148 From Battlefields to Elections: Winning Strategies of Blotto and Auditing Games]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/soda/soda2018.html SODA 2018] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blotto_game Blotto game from Wikipedia]</ref>
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Rivest Ron Rivest from Wikipedia]
* [http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/ Ronald L. Rivest : HomePage]
* [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=50081 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Ronald Rivest]
* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6qE0tdAAAAAJ&hl=en Ronald L. Rivest - Google Scholar Citations]
* [http://marconisociety.org/fellows/ronald-l-rivest/ Ronald L. Rivest – Marconi Society]
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