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Scott Vanstone

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Distinguished Professor EmeritusDepartment of Combinatorics and OptimizationUniversity of Waterloo

Scott Vanstone

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Department of Combinatorics and Optimization

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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No publications on record.
Principal investigator on 9 research grants (9 NSERC), most recently in 2007.

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Latest funding

MPrime Network (formerly MITACS) / Réseau MPrime (autrefois MITACS)
NSERC · 2009 · Co-investigator
$12,553,000
Efficient implementations of elliptic curve cryptography
NSERC · 2007 · Principal investigator
$125,000
Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems/Les mathématiques des technologies de l'information et des systèmes complexes
NSERC · 2005 · Co-investigator
$17,419,000

All 14 grants and awards

MPrime Network (formerly MITACS) / Réseau MPrime (autrefois MITACS)

Co-investigatorNSERC2009Networks of Centres of Excellence

Principal investigators: Gupta, Arvind

$12,553,000

Efficient implementations of elliptic curve cryptography

Principal investigatorNSERC2007Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Vanstone, Scott

$125,000

Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems/Les mathématiques des technologies de l'information et des systèmes complexes

Co-investigatorNSERC2005Networks of Centres of Excellence

Principal investigators: Gupta, Arvind

$17,419,000

Elliptic curve cryptography; security, implementation & application

Principal investigatorNSERC2002Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Vanstone, Scott

$175,000

Bell Emergis University Labs at the University of Waterloo: A Research Partnership with Bell Emergis

Co-investigatorCFI1999Innovation Fund: Institutional Innovation Fund over $350,000

Principal investigators: Mark, John

Keywords: Information technology, communications, networking, next-generation multimedia, internet, computer research infrastructure.

$1,400,000

Elliptic curve cryptography

Principal investigatorNSERC1998Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Vanstone, Scott

$136,950

NSERC/Conference Board Award - 1998

Principal investigatorNSERC1998Cooperative Activities

Principal investigators: Vanstone, Scott

$10,000

NSERC/Pitney Bowes IRC in cryptography

Principal investigatorNSERC1996Industrial Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Vanstone, Scott

$745,000

NSERC/Pitney Bowes Industrial Research Chair in Cryptography

Principal investigatorNSERC1996Industrial Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Vanstone, Scott

$336,500

Infrastructure support for the Insitute for Computer Research

Co-investigatorNSERC1995Infrastructure Grants (H)

Principal investigators: Forsyth, Peter

$528,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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