Turing Award Winner and Cryptography Pioneer Michael O. Rabin Has Died

Michael O. Rabin, the Israeli-American computer scientist whose work helped define modern cryptography and non-deterministic computation, has died. A 1976 Turing Award recipient (shared with Dana Scott), Rabin's algorithms — including the Miller-Rabin primality test and Rabin fingerprinting — remain load-bearing in the systems the internet runs on.