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Sarah Flannery (born 1982, County Cork, Ireland) was, at sixteen years old, the winner of the 1999 Esat Young Scientist Exhibition for development of the Cayley–Purser algorithm, based on work she had done with researchers at Baltimore Technologies during a brief internship there. The project, entitled "Cryptography - A new algorithm versus the RSA", also won her the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award for 1999. Her book In Code (2001), co-written with her father, mathematician David Flannery, retells the story of the making and breaking of the algorithm and of the enjoyment that she got, as a child and throughout her life, from solving mathematical puzzles.
She studied computer science at Peterhouse, a college of the University of Cambridge graduating in 2003, and, as of 2006, worked for Electronic Arts as a software engineer. She now works at Tirnua, which she helped found, as a "Chief Scientist".[1]
The lights on St. Patrick's Street, one of the main thoroughfares of Sarah's home city of Cork are named after her.
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Family
Sarah Flannery is the daughter of David and Elaine Flannery. She has four younger brothers. Mick, Brian, David and Eamonn. Sarah is the sister of Irish rock/folk singer Mick Flannery. Her education includeed a primary all-girls school and a secondary co-ed school.
Bibliography
- Sarah Flannery and David Flannery. In Code: A Mathematical Journey, 2001 ISBN 1-56512-377-8
- Cryptography - A new algorithm versus the RSA.
See also
- Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
- Linear algebra
- Cryptography
- Cayley–Purser algorithm
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References
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