Chris Rivest

Chris Rivest is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of SunPrint (later Alion[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=83349594 "Semiconductors and Semiconductor Equipment: Alion Inc."], Bloomberg), a company that develops technology to inexpensively fabricate solar cells using acoustic printing.Biello, David, [http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=sunshine-is-free-so-can-photovoltai-2010-03-10 "Sunshine is free, so can photovoltaics be cheap?"], Scientific American, Mar 10, 2010Aaron, Tali, [http://buildaroo.com/news/article/one-step-photovoltaic-cell-production-solar-competitive/ "One-Step Process for Photovoltaic Cell Production Could Make Solar Competitive"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430013927/http://buildaroo.com/news/article/one-step-photovoltaic-cell-production-solar-competitive/ |date=April 30, 2011 }}, March 12 He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[http://alum.mit.edu/pages/sliceofmit/category/energy/ "Slice of MIT: The TR35: The List is Up. How Did MIT Fare in the TR35?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806105915/http://alum.mit.edu/pages/sliceofmit/category/energy/ |date=2011-08-06 }}, 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.[http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?TRID=957 "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., [https://books.google.com/books?id=NLngYyWFl_YC Introduction to Algorithms], MIT Press