Center for Communications and Computing Since the 1950s, IDA’s Center for Communications and Computing (C&C)[14] have performed fundamental research in support of the National Security Agency’s cryptology mission in: Foreign signals intelligence and the security of information and Communications of the U.S. Government. Despite the assertion of one official of the institute that IDA has always been completely independent of the government in order to ensure that the institute would be able to carry out studies that dont merely support some preconceived idea of the government, the CRD has always had the most intimate ties with the NSA. Selected as CRDs first director was Dr. J. Barkley Rosser, fifty, a professor of mathematics at Cornell and a specialist in numerical analysis. Chosen as his deputy, however, was Dr. Richard A. Leibler, forty-four, a five-year employee of the Puzzle Palace and a chief architect of Project Focus. A former mathematician with the Sandia Corporation who had also taught, at various times, at the University of Illinois (where he became friends with another math professor, Dr. Louis W. Tordella), Purdue, and Princeton, Leibler was primarily interested in probability and statistics. He apparently enjoyed what he once referred to as our lonely isolation in Princeton. In reference to NSA, he once wrote to William F. Friedman, For reasons which you must appreciate, I try to get down there and back as soon as possible,. so I usually manage to do all my work in a single day. Meraj Sirajuddin
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