Chris Rivest is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of SunPrint (later Alion"Semiconductors and Semiconductor Equipment: Alion Inc.", Bloomberg), a company that develops technology to inexpensively fabricate solar cells using acoustic printing.Biello, David, "Sunshine is free, so can photovoltaics be cheap?", Scientific American, Mar 10, 2010Aaron, Tali, "One-Step Process for Photovoltaic Cell Production Could Make Solar Competitive" , March 12 He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."Slice of MIT: The TR35: The List is Up. How Did MIT Fare in the TR35?" , Thu 26 Aug 2010, MIT Alumni News
In 2010 he was recognized as a "young innovator" by being listed in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list."2010 Young Innovators Under 35: Chris Rivest, 28: SunPrint Printing cheaper solar cells", Technology Review, MIT, 2010
He is the son of Ron Rivest, the cryptographer and founder of RSA.Cf. Acknowledgements, p.xxi, in Cormen, Rivest, et al., Introduction to Algorithms, MIT Press
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External links TR35 profile (archived 2011)