Carver Mead
Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Ph.D. - Caltech.


Kees Schouhamer Immink
President and founder of Turing Machines Inc., a Dutch-based research and consulting firm that contributes to science and technology., Ph.D. - Eindhoven University of Technology.


Samuel Fuller
CTO Emeritus of Analog Devices, Inc. Ph.D. - Stanford.


Thomas Kailath
Hitachi America Emeritus Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Sc.D. - MIT.


Whitfield Diffie
Visiting professor, Zhejiang University, China, and member of the technical advisory boards of BlackRidge Technology, and Cryptomathic.


Ron Rivest
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Ph.D. Stanford.

Note: the following books are not recommended by Professor Rivest. They are books that have been used as reference texts in one/some courses he has taught or recommended on his website.

Donald Knuth
Emeritus Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science, at Stanford University. Ph.D. - Caltech.

Note: the following books are not recommended by Professor Knuth. They are books that have been used as reference texts in one/some courses he has taught or recommended on his website.