RALPH C. MERKLE
- THE FUTURE OF NANOTECH
DR. RALPH C. MERKLE
Dr. Merkle received his Ph.D. from
Stanford University in 1979 where he
co-invented
public key cryptography. He joined
Xerox PARC in 1988, where he
pursued research in security and computational nanotechnology until 1999. He was
a Nanotechnology Theorist at
Zyvex
until 2003, when he joined the
Georgia Institute of Technology as a Professor of Computing until 2006. He
is now a Senior Research Fellow at the
Institute for Molecular
Manufacturing, on the faculty at
Singularity University, a
Director of Alcor, and a co-founder of
the
Nanofactory Collaboration. He chaired the Fourth and Fifth
Foresight Conferences on Nanotechnology. He was co-recipient of: the
Feynman
Prize in Nanotechnology for theory, the
ACM's Kanellakis Award for Theory and Practice, the
IEEE Kobayashi Award, the
RSA Award
in Mathematics, the
IEEE Hamming
Award; and is a Fellow of the
IACR. Dr. Merkle has
fourteen patents, has published extensively and has
given hundreds of talks. His home page is at
www.merkle.com.
