Richard Crandall
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Richard E. Crandall is an American computer scientist and physicist who has made contributions to computational number theory, most notably the development of the irrational base discrete weighted transform, an important method of finding very large primes. He has, at various times, been Chief Scientist at NeXT Inc. and Apple's Chief Cryptographer. He is currently Vollum Adjunct Professor of Science and director of the Center for Advanced Computation at Reed College.