Niels Provos

cryptographer
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Niels Provos

Summary

Niels Provos is a human[1]. He worked as a cryptographer[2] and engineer[3]. He ranks in the top 0.73% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (45 views/month, #7,282 of 1,000,298).[4]

Key Facts

  • Niels Provos's professions included cryptographer[2].
  • Niels Provos worked as an engineer[3].
  • Niels Provos was employed by Google[5].
  • Among Niels Provos's employers was Stripe[6].
  • Niels Provos was educated at University of Michigan[7].
  • Niels Provos's education included a stint at University of Hamburg[8].
  • Niels Provos's doctoral advisor was Peter Honeyman[9].
  • Niels Provos's image is recorded as Niels provos.jpg[10].
  • Niels Provos is recorded as male[11].
  • Niels Provos's instance of is recorded as human[12].
  • Niels Provos's ISNI is recorded as 0000000384366140[13].
  • Niels Provos's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 275030306[14].
  • Niels Provos's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n2007033410[15].
  • Niels Provos's IdRef ID is recorded as 128595485[16].
  • Niels Provos's Mathematics Genealogy Project ID is recorded as 85269[17].
  • Niels Provos's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0gkxncj[18].
  • Niels Provos's given name is recorded as Niels[19].
  • Niels Provos's ACM Digital Library author ID is recorded as 81330496990[20].
  • Niels Provos's Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID is recorded as 316233668[21].
  • Niels Provos's BIBSYS ID is recorded as 7064410[22].
  • Niels Provos's product or material produced is recorded as OutGuess[23].
  • Niels Provos's product or material produced is recorded as bcrypt[24].
  • Niels Provos's product or material produced is recorded as libevent[25].
  • Niels Provos's product or material produced is recorded as Systrace[26].
  • Niels Provos's product or material produced is recorded as Honeyd[27].

Body

Education

Educated at University of Michigan[7], a public research university[28], in United States[29], founded in 1817[30], headquartered in Ann Arbor[31] and University of Hamburg[8], a public university[32], in Germany[33], founded in 1919[34], headquartered in Hamburg[35]. Niels Provos's doctoral advisor was Peter Honeyman[9].

Career and Affiliations

Recorded occupations include cryptographer[2] and engineer[3]. Employers include Google[5], a business[36], in United States[37], founded in 1998[38], headquartered in Mountain View[39] and Stripe[6], a business[40], in United States[41], founded in 2010[42], headquartered in San Francisco[43].

Why It Matters

Niels Provos ranks in the top 0.73% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (45 views/month, #7,282 of 1,000,298).[4]

FAQs

What did Niels Provos do for work?

Niels Provos worked as cryptographer[2] and engineer[3].

Where did Niels Provos go to school?

Niels Provos was educated at University of Michigan[7] and University of Hamburg[8].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [10] . wikidata.org.
  2. [11] . wikidata.org.
  3. [12] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . citi.umich.edu. Retrieved . citi.umich.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . citi.umich.edu. Retrieved . citi.umich.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [2] . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] . wikidata.org.
  8. [5] . wikidata.org.
  9. [6] . wikidata.org.
  10. [9] . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  14. [41] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  15. [42] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  16. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [4] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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