Biography
Hinsdale was born in Chicago to Janice M. and Benjamin Hinsdale, the youngest in a large Midwestern family of 11, and raised in Westchester, Illinois. He began using computers in 1979 at the Saint Ignatius prep school in downtown Chicago. This enthusiasm led him to MIT where he majored in Computer Science and conducted research in cryptography under professor Ronald L. Rivest (the "R" of RSA), taking a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 1986, and then on to Columbia University, taking a Master's degree, also in Computer Science, in 1995.
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