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Michael Luby

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Information theorist and cryptographer

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Michael Luby
Computer Science
#785
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#812
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#425
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Information Theory
#12
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#13
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#9
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Database
#1715
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#1799
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#438
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According to Wikipedia, Michael George Luby is a mathematician and computer scientist, CEO of BitRipple, senior research scientist at the International Computer Science Institute , former VP Technology at Qualcomm, co-founder and former chief technology officer of Digital Fountain. In coding theory he is known for leading the invention of the Tornado codes and the LT codes. In cryptography he is known for his contributions showing that any one-way function can be used as the basis for private cryptography, and for his analysis, in collaboration with Charles Rackoff, of the Feistel cipher construction. His distributed algorithm to find a maximal independent set in a computer network has also been influential.

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