Victor S. Miller

Victor Saul Miller ( born March 3, 1947 in Brooklyn ) is an American mathematician and computer scientist.

Miller studied mathematics at Columbia University ( bachelor's degree, 1968) and in 1975 at Harvard University with Barry Mazur on the number theory of elliptic curves doctorate ( Diophantine and p- Adic Analysis of Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms). 1973 to 1978 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, and from 1978 in the Department of computer science (since 1984 in the Department of Mathematics ) of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM. From 1993 he was a scientist at the Center for Communications Research (CCR ) of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton.

Miller focuses on Algorithmic number theory, combinatorics, data compression and cryptography. He is co-inventor (along with Neal Koblitz ) of Elliptic Curve Cryptography and invented by Mark N. Wegman about the same time as Terry Welch LZW algorithm for data compression. In 1983, she reported on the LZW algorithm, a patent for IBM (as the same time Terry Welch for Sperry Corporation, its algorithm published in 1984 ). They also introduced other variants ( so 1985 LZMW algorithm). LZW algorithm and its variants can be used in numerous applications. In 1986 he described a cryptographic algorithm that is based on the Weil pairing on an algebraic curve. Miller also dealt with later cryptography based on algebraic curves.

Miller is a Fellow of the IEEE and received at the RSA Conference 2009 Excellence in the Field of Mathematics price.