Victor S. Miller, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Victor S. Miller

mathematician, cryptographer

Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1947

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher, cryptographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Victor S. Miller

  • Victor Saul Miller (born 3 March 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American mathematician at the Center for Communications Research (CCR) of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
  • He received his A.B.
  • in mathematics from Columbia University in 1968, and his Ph.D.
  • in mathematics from Harvard University in 1975.
  • He was an assistant professor in the Mathematics Department of the University of Massachusetts Boston from 1973 to 1978.
  • In 1978 he joined the IBM 801 project in the Computer Science Department of the Thomas J.
  • Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and moved to the Mathematics Department in 1984.
  • Since 1993 he has been at CCR. His main areas of interest are in Computational Number Theory, Combinatorics, Data Compression and Cryptography.
  • He is one of the co-inventors of Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
  • He is also one of the co-inventors, with Mark Wegman, of the LZW data compression algorithm, and various extensions, one of which is used in the V.42bis international modem standard.
  • He received an IEEE Millennium medal for this invention.
  • He is also the inventor of Miller's Algorithm which is of fundamental use in pairing-based cryptography.
  • He is also one of the co-inventors of the Lagarias-Miller-Odlyzko prime counting algorithm.Miller is the recipient of the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics which was given in the RSA Conference 2009, a Fellow of the IEEE, the International Association for Cryptologic Research and the Association for Computing Machinery.

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