In March, 1989, MIT Professor Emeritus Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposed a groundbreaking new way to manage information retrieval and sharing, which would go on to become the World Wide Web, one of the most impactful technological inventions of our time.
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Online shopping wouldn’t be possible without the invention of the RSA Algorithm by MIT colleagues Adi Shamir, Leonard Adleman, and Professor Ronald Rivest. Originally published in a 1978 paper, this algorithm has had enormous implications for secure online interactions.
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In 1999, MIT Professor Barbara Liskov’s impactful paper “Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance” was published, proposing methods that would go on to be vital to the development and deployment of blockchain technology.
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