Michael Rothstein

Associate Professor


Address:

Professor Michael Rothstein


Dept. of Computer Science
Kent State University
P. O. Box 5190
268 MCS Building
Kent, OH 44242-0001

Telephone:

(330)-672-9065

Fax:

(330)-672-0737

E-Mail:

rothstei at cs.kent.edu

Office:

268 Math and Computer Science Bldg



Brief biography: 

Michael Rothstein received a B. S. in Mathematics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 1970, and his M. S. and Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin in 1974 and 1976 respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Student at the University of Utah in 1975-76, and an Assistant (then Aggregate) Professor in Computer Science at Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela in 1977-1979. Since 1980, he has been at Kent State University, first as an Assistant, then as an Associate Professor in Computer Science.

Research interests:

Rothstein's research interests include symbolic and algebraic computation, information security, specially cryptology and access control.

Courses for Spring 2009:

CS 4/59995 ST: Secure Coding
Tuesday and Thursday 11:00-12:15
Syllabus
Printable Syllabus(pdf)
Class Notes
File Update Homework.

CS 6/79995 Advanced Information Securityi and Cryptology
Tuesday and Thursday 2:15-3:30
Syllabus
Printable Syllabus(pdf)
Class Notes(Campus restricted)
Talks given by Students.

Other links:

An introduction to Modular arithmetic and Public Key cryptography.

A Tutorial on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (restricted to Kent State)

Another Good tutorial on Elliptic Curve Cryptography.

My dissertation (FWIW)

Notes for CS 10051 Introduction to Computer Sciencea
Summer 2008 Syllabus (html)
Summer 2008 Syllabus (pdf)
Class notes(restricted to Kent State)
History Timeline from www.computersciencelab.com
Some nice pictures relevant to the history of computing.
Other interesting files for CS 10051, downloaded from the net.


Office hours for Spring 2009:
Tuesday and Thursday from 12:30 to 2:00.

rothstei at cs.kent.edu