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Address: |
Professor Michael Rothstein |
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Dept. of Computer Science |
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Telephone: |
(330)-672-9065 |
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Fax: |
(330)-672-0737 |
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E-Mail: |
rothstei at cs.kent.edu |
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Office: |
268 Math and Computer Science Bldg |
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Office hours for Spring 2013: |
Monday 1:00-5:00, Wednesday 2:00-5:00 except when pre-empted by departmental meetings. |
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Office hours the week of April 8: |
Monday: 3:00-5:00, Wednesday 2:00-3:30 |
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.
Rothstein's research interests include symbolic and algebraic computation, information security, specially cryptology and access control.
Courses for the spring of 2013.
A short description of Computer Science; due to Professor A. Ruttan.
Using ssh on Windows (from UCSF)
An Introduction to Linux.A short survey of Computer Security.
An Introductory Lecture on Security (restricted access).
A tongue-in-check explanation of the Internet.
One of the dangers of RFID Technology
Eric Levenez has some cool charts giving the history of Unix, Windows and some Programming Languages.
An introduction to Modular arithmetic and Public Key cryptography.
Slides for a brief Intro to Cryptology by Matt Bishop.
Another proof of the Harrison-Rizzo-Ullman result.
Some explanatory slides on Rijndael.
An introduction to Security in OS, as presented 11/13/2006 (access restricted to KSU)
A Tutorial on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (restricted to Kent State)
Another Good tutorial on Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
Archive:
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.
Courses taught in Spring of 2010.
Course on Operating System Security taught in the Summer of 2010.
Courses taught in the Fall of 2010.
Courses taught in the Spring of 2011.
Courses taught in the Fall of 2011.
Courses for the Spring of 2012.
rothstei at cs.kent.edu