Alan Konheim
Alan G. Konheim (* 1934 ) is an American computer scientist and cryptologist .
Konheim studied electrical engineering (bachelor's degree in 1955) and mathematics (master's degree in 1957) at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. In 1960 he received his PhD in mathematics from Cornell University . From 1960 to 1982 he was in the mathematics department of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center at IBM . He belonged to Horst Feistel's group that developed the Data Encryption Standard in the 1970s.
In 1962 he was a visiting scientist at Caltech , in 1966 at the University of Heidelberg (as a Fulbright Scholar) and in 1972 a visiting lecturer at the Technion . He has also taught at Yeshiva University (Balfour School of Science), City College of New York, and the Courant Institute at New York University.
In addition to cryptography, he initially dealt with early neural network models ( perceptron ), hash techniques and computer communication. He also worked with Roy Adler on dynamic systems.
Fonts
- Cryptography. A primer , Wiley 1981
- Computer security and cryptography , Wiley 2007
- Hashing in computer science. Fifty years of slicing and dicing , Wiley 2010
Web links
- Literature by and about Alan Konheim in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Homepage
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| SURNAME | Konheim, Alan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Konheim, Alan G. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist and cryptologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1934 |