UW Gazette, December 3, 1997

                         

     Daily Bulletin, November 25
     
     A faculty member at St. Jerome's College and one who's
about to come to UW from Nebraska, each described as "one of
the world's leading cryptographers", will soon be the
holders of industrial research chairs in their field.
     Such chairs, which are getting to be almost a habit at
UW, are sponsored by the Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council and corporate supporters. The two new
positions will be the NSERC/Certicom Industrial Chair in
Cryptography and the NSERC/Pitney Bowes Industrial Chair in
Cryptography.
     The chairholders will be Scott Vanstone of St. Jerome's
and the department of combinatorics and optimization (the
Pitney Bowes chair) and Douglas Stinson, now of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, who will arrive next July 1 to join
UW's C&O department. "We believe," an announcement says,
"that by combining the complementary strengths of these two
world leaders we have a strong basis to become the leading
academic research and advanced training centre in this vital
information technology area. As an umbrella for the
substantial activities, both theoretical and applied, we
plan to form the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research.
A junior faculty member has also been hired in cryptography,
returning to Canada from the University of Auburn."
     The chairs are also sponsored by Communications and
Information Technology Ontario, one of the "centres of
excellence". A launch celebration for them has been an
nounced for December 15 at 3 p.m. in the Davis Centre
lounge.