The Growth of Cryptography

Ronald L. Rivest
February 8, 2011
Running Time: 1:09:00

Ronald L. Rivest, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science who helped develop one of the world's most widely used Internet security systems, was MIT’s James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award winner for 2010–2011. Rivest, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), is known for his pioneering work in the field of cryptography, computer, and network security. Read more at MIT News.

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Erich P. Ippen
Spring of 2002

Erich P. Ippen, the Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Physics, has been awarded the James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award for 2001–02. Professor Ippen is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Arthur Schawlow Prize from the American Physical Society, the Quantum Electronics Award from the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Harold E. Edgerton Award from the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers and the R.W. Wood Prize from the Optical Society of America. Read more at the MIT News Office.

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Marvin L. Minsky
Spring 1990

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Adventures in Carbon Research

Mildred S. Dresselhaus
April 1, 1987

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Lecture titles:
On Learning and Teaching and Electrodynamics
Noise, the Uncertainty Principle, and Picosecond Optics

Hermann A. Haus
April, 1983

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