Michael Schroeder is a computer scientist perhaps best known as the co-inventor of the Needham?Schroeder protocol. In 2001 he co-founded the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley lab and was the Assistant Managing Director until the lab was disbanded in 2014. Starting in 1976 he has been on the MIT EECS department faculty, at Xerox PARC, and at the DEC Systems Research Center. His areas of research include computer security, distributed systems and operating systems. At MIT he was involved in the Multics project. Some other systems he has built are Grapevine, the filesystem of Cedar, Topaz, Autonet and Pachyderm. In 2004 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2006 ACM SIGSAC presented him with the Outstanding Innovations Award "for technical contributions to the field of computer and communication security that have had lasting impact in furthering or understanding the theory and/or development of commercial systems." In 2007 NIST/NSA gave him the National Computer Systems Security Award. [More at Wikipedia]

1945 in Richland