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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 |
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.
CS 4/57221 Introduction to Cryptology
Monday and Wednesday 11:00-12:15
Syllabus
Printable Syllabus(pdf)
Homework Assignments
Questionaire for the First Midterm
CS 13401 User Level Computer Security and CS 10051 Intro to Computer Science(Honors)
Monday and Wednesday 2:15-3:30
CS 10051 students please refer to the general CS 10051 website for their
Syllabus and other class materials.
Syllabus for 13401
Printable Syllabus for 13401(pdf)
Class Notes
CS 33011 Speed Programming Techniques
Monday 5:30-8:15
Syllabus
Printable Syllabus(pdf)
Problem set for Oct 24, 2009.
An introduction to Modular arithmetic and Public Key cryptography.
Slides for a brief Intro to Cryptology by Matt Bishop.
Some explanatory slides on Rijndael.
A Tutorial on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (restricted to Kent State)
Another Good tutorial on Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
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 Fall 2009:
Monday and Wednesday from 12:30 to 2:00 and 3:45 to 5:00 except when pre-empted by dept meetings.