Awards
Victor Miller of West Windsor, above left, received an award for inventing elliptic curve cryptography in 1985. Elliptic curve technology is now becoming the public-key crytpographic scheme of choice. It has recently been adopted by the U.S. Government to protect all mission critical information. It is used in a number of standards for secure communications on the Internet, as well as in the next model of Blackberry, some cell phones, DVD players, televsions, and by credit card companies. The award was presented by Certicom in Toronto, Canada, in November.
A graduate of Columbia College, Miller received his Ph.D. in math from Harvard University. While at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, he received three Research Division Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards and one Corporate Technical Achievement Award. Since 1993, he has been a research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analysis Center for Communication Research in Princeton. He received an IEEE Millennium Medal for his work in data compression in 1991.
Cheryl Ponchin of Plainsboro received her 20-year award for her work at the Institute for Defense Analysis Center for Communication Research in Princeton. She is a technical typist there.
