Gordon Agnew
Encyclopedia
Gordon B. Agnew is an engineering professor at the University of Waterloo
, in Ontario
, Canada
. Agnew's primary research interests are in the fields of encryption
and data security
.
He received his BASc degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo
in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1982. He has worked closely with industry and is a co-founder of Certicom Corp..
Dr. Agnew is a Foundation Fellow of the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications and was recently inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...
, in Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. Agnew's primary research interests are in the fields of encryption
Encryption
In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key. The result of the process is encrypted information...
and data security
Data security
Data security is the means of ensuring that data is kept safe from corruption and that access to it is suitably controlled. Thus data security helps to ensure privacy. It also helps in protecting personal data. Data security is part of the larger practice of Information security.- Disk Encryption...
.
He received his BASc degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo
University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...
in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1982. He has worked closely with industry and is a co-founder of Certicom Corp..
Dr. Agnew is a Foundation Fellow of the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications and was recently inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.