17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
John Young says:
The New York Times has an interesting article today on the life and career of Leonard Adelman, with remarks on RSA and public key cryptography. Friendly, not technical.
The article contains a serious inaccuracy -- it credits Adleman with having invented the term "Computer Virus", when, in fact, it was probably John Brunner in his novel "The Shockwave Rider" over ten years earlier. It also inaccurately credits one of his students with developing the first one as a test, when in fact they existed for a long time before. .pm