Greetings! You've reached Steve Tate's home page at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I am Department Head for the Department of Computer Science at UNCG, and you can find links to department information here as well as information about my research and teaching. If you want to contact me, see the "Contact" link to the left.

Basic Information

My work is in the area of computer security and cryptography, and you can find more information by following the "Research" link to the left. I'm completely committed to leading the Department of Computer Science, and strongly feel that keeping active and current in my own research is an important part of this - if you'd like to chat about my research or about computer security (or computer science) in general, please feel free to contact me!

Teaching for Fall 2008

I am teaching CSC 653, Advanced Theory of Computation in Fall 2008 - graduate students who have had any prior exposure to theory of computing should take this course rather than CSC 553.

Events, Conferences, etc.

I have been involved with many conferences, workshops, and journals in the past, but there are a few current ones that I'd like to place here to get some publicity:

• The 5th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing: I am a Vice Program Chair for this conference, which will be held June 23-25, 2008 in Oslo, Norway. Please contribute to the program by submitting a paper! The call for papers is available as either plain text or a PDF file.
• The Journal of Information Assurance and Security: I'm on the editorial board of this journal, and we're looking for quality submissions of original research in IA/security. If you have a question about submitting something to this journal, feel free to ask me!

About Computer Science

One of the things on my "to do" list is to do some writing about computer science as a discipline - what it is, what it isn't, and why it's particularly valuable today. Maybe I'll even join the hordes of bloggers and write more regularly. However, since my "to do" list is a bit long at the moment, I'll refer people who want to read about such things to an excellent article by David Chisnall entitled Is Computer Science Dying? (the answer is "no").

My History

Before joining UNCG in 2007, I was at The University of North Texas for 14 years, in what was originally the Department of Computer Science and later became the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. At UNT I created the Center for Information and Computer Security, which won recognition by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. I received my Ph.D. from Duke University in 1991, followed by a 2 year postdoc supported by NASA. I have worked and published in several areas, including algebraic algorithms, circuit complexity, online algorithms, and data compression.