1. Roger Michael Needham was a British computer scientist.
14 Facts About Roger Needham
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Roger Needham attended Doncaster Grammar School for Boys in Doncaster going on to St John's College, Cambridge in 1953, and graduating with a BA in 1956 in mathematics and philosophy.
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Roger Needham worked on a variety of key computing projects in security, operating systems, computer architecture and local area networks.
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Roger Needham pioneered the technique of protecting passwords using a one-way hash function.
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Roger Needham was made a professor in 1981 and remained with the laboratory until his retirement in 1998.
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Between 1996 and 1998, Roger Needham served as the pro-vice chancellor at the University of Cambridge.
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Roger Needham was a founding Fellow of University College, Cambridge, which became Wolfson College.
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Roger Needham was made a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1994.
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Roger Needham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1985 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1993.
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Roger Needham was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his contributions to computing in 2001.
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Roger Needham held honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Twente, Loughborough University, and the University of Kent.
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Roger Needham has several awards named after him in his honour.
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Roger Needham married fellow computer scientist Karen Sparck Jones in 1958.
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Roger Needham died of cancer in March 2003 at his home in Willingham, Cambridgeshire.