Introduction to Algorithms

Thomas H. Cormen

born 1956 · American computer scientist

Profession

Computer scientist, Mathematician, Professor

Worked at

Dartmouth College

Studied at

Princeton, MIT

Studied under

Charles E. Leiserson

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Charles E. Leiserson

born 1953 · American computer scientist

• Professor at MIT

Profession

Computer scientist, Mathematician, Professor

Worked at

MIT

Studied at

Carnegie Mellon, Yale

Studied under

H. T. Kung, Jon Bentley

Prizes

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013), Presidential Young Investigator Award (1985), ACM Fellow (2006), Paris Kanellakis Award (2013), Ken Kennedy Award (2014), Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2015)

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Ronald L. Rivest

born 1947 · American cryptographer

• Turing Award
• Professor at MIT

Profession

Computer scientist, Mathematician, Professor

Worked at

MIT

Studied at

Stanford, Yale, Timothy Dwight College

Studied under

Robert W. Floyd

Prizes

Turing Award (2002), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2017), ACM Fellow (1994), Paris Kanellakis Award (1996), IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (2000), IACR Fellow (2004), Marconi Prize (2007)

The R in RSA encryption.

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Clifford Stein

born 1965 · American computer scientist

• Worked at Columbia

Profession

Computer scientist

Worked at

Columbia

Studied at

Princeton, MIT

Studied under

David Shmoys

Prizes

ACM Fellow (2012)

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