The RSA algorithm was publicly described in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman at MIT ; the letters RSA are the initials of their surnames, listed in the same order as on the paper.

Since a paper describing the algorithm had been published in August 1977, prior to the December 1977 filing date of the patent application, regulations in much of the rest of the world precluded patents elsewhere and only the US patent was granted.

For Thomas Kuhn, who presented his thoughts in a paper presented in 1977, a sense of such a critical inheritance of tradition is, historically, what sets apart the best scientists who change their fields is an embrasure of tradition.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Hecht, Anthony: " Clair de lune " ( before 1977 ); Nyhart, Nina: " Captive Pierrot " ( 1988 ; after the Paul Klee painting above under # Works on canvas, paper, and board | Works on Canvas, Paper and Board ); Peachum, Jack: " Our Pierrot in Autumn " ( 2008 ).

Humphrey Carpenter in his 1977 biography relates that Tolkien owned a postcard entitled Der Berggeist (), and on the paper cover in which he kept it, he wrote " the origin of Gandalf ".

In 1977 the P2 took control of the Corriere della Sera newspaper, a leading paper in Italy.

In 1977 a committee reviewed all colleges of naturopathy in Australia and found that, although the syllabuses of many colleges were reasonable in their coverage of basic biomedical sciences on paper, the actual instruction bore little relationship to the documented course.

* The algorithm illustrated in Lempel and Ziv's original 1977 paper outputs all its data three values at a time: the length and distance of the longest match found in the buffer, and the literal which followed that match.

This newspaper was founded in 1977 by a former Conservative councillor on Merton Council, but since then the paper has been sold on and it is now widely published in different editions across South London.

Guy Steele pointed out in a 1977 paper that a well-designed programming language implementation can have very low overheads for procedural abstraction ( but laments, in most implementations, that they seldom achieve this in practice-being " rather thoughtless or careless in this regard ").

The pair rapidly became champions of the Punk scene and created a new tone for the paper ( Parsons ' time at NME is reflected in his 2005 novel Stories We Could Tell, about the misadventures of three young music paper journalists on the night of 16 August 1977, the night Elvis Presley died ).

In 1977 the paper opened a second site in Zürich.

In 1977 the Federal Reserve Board staff concluded Glass-Steagall permitted banks to privately place commercial paper.

) Writers in East-West Encounter, London: Macmillan, 1982 ( Originally delivered as a paper at the International Colloquium on the Cross-Cultural Encounter in Literature, East-West Center, Honolulu, October 1977 ).

It later became common to do clean-up on paper before the animation was copied, and with time and experience, the process improved in 1977 with the release of The Rescuers.

However, the 1977 paper on which the claim is based said only that the " most probable " area " may added be the site of a future large earthquake "; a " firm prediction of the occurrence time is not attempted.

His 1977 paper considered a problem in Ramsey theory, and gave a " large number " as an upper bound for its solution.

In 1977, it was the first local paper to launch a complaint page.

In his 1977 paper Quark Confinement and Topology of Gauge Groups, Alexander Polyakov demonstrated that instanton effects in 3-dimensional QED coupled to a scalar field lead to a mass for the photon.

Another paper by Hartmanis from 1977, with Leonard Berman, introduced the still-unsolved Berman – Hartmanis conjecture that all NP-complete languages are polynomial time isomorphic.

In 1977, Berkshire Hathaway purchased the Buffalo Evening News and resumed publication of a Sunday edition of the paper that ceased in 1914.

Some of his other works from that period are DIECIMILA ( 1977 ), a facsimile of an Italian 10, 000 Lira note, possibly the first fine art print that ( like paper money ) is printed on both sides of the paper ; The Speed of Light Machine ( 1983 ), in which he reconstructed a scientific experiment with which to " see " the speed of light ; and the installation C. B. T. V.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

Karpov was on record saying that he believed Spassky would easily beat him and win the Candidates ' cycle to face Fischer, and that he ( Karpov ) would win the following Candidates ' cycle in 1977.

* 1977 – The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKUltra.

Although amaranth was cultivated on a large scale in ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, nowadays it is only cultivated on a small scale there, along with India, China, Nepal, and other tropical countries ; thus, there is potential for further cultivation in those countries, as well as in the U. S. In a 1977 article in Science, amaranth was described as " the crop of the future.

* 1977 – The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

The first version of Applesoft was released in 1977 only on cassette tape and lacked proper support for high-resolution graphics.

In 1973 he presented a unique 6-part documentary on BBC Radio 1, The Rolling Stones Story, and in 1977 he established a Sunday-night blues and soul show on Radio 1, Alexis Korner's Blues and Soul show, which ran until 1981.

His seventh wife, Nina Bushkin, whom he married on May 30, 1977, was the director of development at Mannes College of Music and the daughter of composer and musician Joey Bushkin.

It was only in the subsequent period, from 1977 through 1988, that the three firms began to export arms on a large scale.

In August 1977 the British Lions made a stopover in Fiji on the way home from their tour of New Zealand.

They also were beaten by Fiji on their 1977 tour to New Zealand.

Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter ( known as " The soiling of Old Glory ") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis.

Plug was a comic based on the eponymous character from The Bash Street Kids that began with issue dated 24 September 1977, and is notable for being the first comic to make use of rotogravure printing.

* A 1977 song by Steely Dan on the Aja album, referring to the root beer float.

In addition to their earlier appearance together on Courtship, Benet guest-starred with him on his The Magician series in 1973, did an episode of The Love Boat with him in 1977, and guested on his The Incredible Hulk program in 1980 just before they divorced.

* Peter Gabriel ( 1977 album ), one of four albums named Peter Gabriel, often referred to as " Car " because of the photograph on the album cover

In 1977 Maore expelled peasants from Ngazidja and Nzwani who had recently settled in large numbers on the island.

Gauss ( aged about 26 ) on East German Postage stamp | stamp produced in 1977.