He is a Computer Science professor at the University of Southern California. Awards For his contribution to the invention of the RSA cryptosystem, Adleman, along with Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir, has been a recipient of the 1996 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award and the 2002 Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of Computer Science. Adleman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006 and a 2021 ACM Fellow. See also List of famous programmers Important publications in cryptography References External links Adleman's homepage Turing Award Citation Mathematical consultant for movie Sneakers American computer programmers American science writers American people of Belarusian-Jewish descent 1945 births Living people Modern cryptographers Public-key cryptographers Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area Turing Award laureates University of Southern California faculty Writers from San Francisco Jewish scientists Jewish biologists UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences 20th-century American scientists 21st-century American scientists Computer security academics UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni