Education, Career,  
  Grants, and Publications 
Neal R. Wagner

 Education:

 Career:     Web pages for some periods below: Courses Taught.
  • 1969-1974: Asst. and Assoc. Professor, Mathematics Dept., Univ. of Texas at El Paso. Received tenure.

  • 1974-1975: Programmer/Analyst, Singer/Link, Simulation Products Division, Johnson Space Center. (Simulating the shuttle to help with design issues and to start training astronauts, all before the shuttle was built.)

  • 1975-1976: Applications Programming Group Leader, Singer/Link. (The only time I supervised programmers who weren't students. It was both difficult and easy because they mostly knew what they were doing.)

  • 1976-1979: Assoc. Professor, Mathematical Sciences Dept., Univ. of Texas at El Paso.

  • 1979-1981: Visiting Assoc. Professor, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Houston.

  • 1981-1986: Assoc. Professor of Computer Science, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Drexel Univ. Received tenure.

  • 1986-2005: Assoc. Professor of Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio. Received tenure. (At this point, retired,)

  • Spring 2012- Fall 2014: Adjunct Prof. of Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio. (During each of 6 semesters, I taught one course to Junior-Senior CS majors: Algorithms (twice) and Programming Languages (four times).)

 Grants:
  • Grant from the National Science Foundation, 1990-1991 (with K. Robbins (PI) and S. Robbins
    (CO-PI)). Title: Concurrency Experiments in a UNIX Environment. Amount: $91,000.

  • Grant from the Advanced Research Program off the State of Texas, 1988-1990. Title: Non-linear Dynamics in Random Number Generation and Cryptography. Amount: $17,621.00.

  • Research Scholar award from Drexel University, 1985. Title: New Approaches to Public Key Cryptosystems. Amount: $5000.00 plus a research assistant and release time.

  • National Science Foundation Grant DCR-8403350, 1984-1987. Title: Database Security. Amount: $54,100.00.

  • Grant from Siemens Corporation of New Jersey for research in cryptography and data security, 1981-1982. Title: A Cryptography-based Secure Office System. Amount: $10,000.00.

  • Faculty research grant from Drexel Univ., 1982-1983. Title: Secure Personal Work- stations. Amount: $2,500.00.

 Representative Publications:
  • Wagner, N.R. and Magyarik, M.R., ``A public-key cryptosystem based on the word problem," Advances in Cryptology: Proceedings of Crypto 84, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 196, ed. by G.R. Blakley and D. Chaum, Springer Verlag, pp. 19-36. PDF copy,
    An entire seminiar was inspired by the article: 2006 seminar in this area.
    [Google Scholar Number: 230] (This was a new approach to a whole family of public-key cryptosystems that no one had thought of before.)

  • Wagner, N.R. ``Fingerprinting," Proceedings of the 1983 Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 18-22. PDF copy.    [Google Scholar Number: 337.] (Surprisingly many references, even though the article was mostly only a call to fingerprint all data. I think people decided to put on fingerprints much more often.)

  • Wagner, N.R., Fountain, R. L., and Hazy, R.J., ``The fingerprinted database,'' Proc. Sixth Intl. Conf. on Data Engineering, 1990, 330-336. PDF copy.
    [Implementation of this was someone's PhD dissertation in Computer Science.]

  • Wagner, N.R., ``Randomized fault-detecting leader election in a bi-directional ring,'' Proc. of the Second IEEE Symp. on Parallel & Distributed Processing , IEEE Computer Society Press, 1990, 506-510. PDF copy.

  • Wagner, N.R., ``The logistic equation in random number generation,'' Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993, 922-931. PDF copy.

 All Publications:

My Academic Genealogy (a few details omitted)

Illinois Math PhDs that I knew (includes interesting stories)

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