Sponsored by the
Poughkeepsie Chapter of the Association For Computing Machinery
and Marist College
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Program: Cryptography: From Enigma to Elliptical Curve Cryptography
Speaker: Donald Costello
Senior Lecturer and NCITE scholar
Department of Computer Science
University of Nebraska
Email: dcostello@cse.unl.edu
About the Topic:
The story of cryptography goes back 4000 years and some of the
mathematics employed goes back nearly as long. With the coming
of the computer age both the field of cryptography and the
mathematics supporting it have been reawakened.
This talk will address the history of cryptography beginning
with the Enigma used by Germany in WWII and broken by world
famous mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing. It will
continue down to today’s advanced crypto systems such as RSA, PGP
and elliptic curve cryptography.
The lecture will point out the key role that cryptography plays
in the future of e-commerce and the new products and ways of
doing business that result when secure communications through
cryptography are available.
About the Speaker:
Don Costello's career has taken him many times from academia to
the business world and back.
He helped start three Computer Science Departments and three
University Information Technology facilities. He has taught both
undergraduate and graduate courses, and he has done research in
the areas of Statistical Computing, Performance Modeling,
Standards for Learning Objects, and Managing Intellectual
Property. He also held a four-year Carnegie Foundation grant to
investigate how IP is managed in universities around the world.
In his business career Don founded and sold two firms and has
consulted with over 100 firms throughout the world. Recent
consulting includes work on ERP systems and on SAP, as well as
being a technical consultant on .com and e-Learning projects. He
is also working on standards for modeling large systems needed to
support e-learning environments.
Don is a 40-year member of the ACM and is a fellow of the
British Computing Society.
When: 7:30 pm, Monday, Sept 20, 2010
Where: Performing Arts Room
(Room 346 in the Student Center)
Marist College, Route 9, Poughkeepsie, NY
Directions: Building 32 on the map at
www.marist.edu/welcome/map.html
Parking: Parking, on campus, on the west side of Route 9 can
be difficult. It may be easier to park on the east
side of Route 9, across from Building 25 on the
Marist campus map at www.marist.edu/about/map.html.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Dinner: 6 pm at The Mill House Panda, 289 Mill Street,
Poughkeepsie. Phone: 845.454.2530. For directions see
www.millhousepanda.com. The menu may be the Standard
Package at www.millhousepanda.com/Catering.html.
All are welcome to join us for dinner.
Refreshments are served after the meeting. For further
information, email collier@acm.org or call 845.522.1971.
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