[9] "First, people have to develop a level of trust in § fully homomorphic encryption...its unique unhackable character and the confidence that no one but the owner can see the plain text data.

While at Stanford, Rhines co-invented the magnesium-doped gallium nitride blue light-emitting diode, for which he, Herb Maruska and David Stevenson were awarded a U.S. patent in 1974.

[11] Isamu Akasaki built directly on this gallium-nitride research and eventually won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura.

[24] A January 1991 article in Electronic Business Buyer reported that "[s]ources say that TI has the only profitable general purpose DSP operation in the world.

Rhines has been elected five times (1996, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010) to serve two-year terms as chair of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium, the international trade association for the EDA industry.

[40] "Aware that a PhD thesis has to be based on original research, Maruska realized that he needed to adopt a different approach compared to his colleagues back East.

He spoke at length with another graduate student, Walden C. Rhines, who sat at an adjacent desk in the McCullough Building at Stanford.

[52] From 1996 to 2020 he served on the board of Classic Wines Auction in Portland, which supports a variety of children and family charities.