HBD, Martin Hellman! Hellman received the #ACMTuringAward in 2015 for inventing and promulgating both asymmetric public-key #cryptography and a practical cryptographic key-exchange method. Watch him explain the idea behind his Ph.D. dissertation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umVSICLdrhM&t=2s
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Today, let’s remember Richard Hamming, who was born #OTD 1915. Hamming received the 1968 #ACMTuringAward for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes. Read Hamming’s bio, here: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/hamming_1000652.cfm
