You're Invited: UNL ACM Chapter Presents Donald Costello

Donald Costello Will Present On April 19
Donald Costello Will Present On April 19

The UNL ACM Student Chapter is featuring Donald Costello on April 19 at 5:30 p.m. in Avery Hall Room 347. He will present "From the Enigma to Elliptic Curve Cryptography". There will be pizza and drawings for three prizes: a one year subscription for student membership with ACM and two Navajo Code Talker's Medals.

Don Costello has had a mixed career splitting his time between academia and business. He helped start three computer science departments and three university information technology facilities (University of Nebraska, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh and Madison, and Colorado State University).

Costello has taught undergraduate and graduate courses and has done work in research areas of statistical computing, performance modeling, standards for learning objects, and managing intellectual property. He is a 40-year member of ACM and is a fellow of the British Computing Society. He has lectured in the United States, England, Ireland, Austria, Germany, India, and Sri Lanka. He also held a four-year Carnegie Foundation Grant to investigate how IP is managed in universities around the world.

His business career included managing IT facilities, the founding and selling of two firms, and consulting with over 100 firms worldwide. His recent projects include five years consulting on ERP systems, SAP, as well as being a Technical Consultant on .com and e-Learning projects.

Costello currently holds a position as a Senior Lecturer and NCITE Scholar at the University of Nebraska and is working on the importance of standards in modeling the large systems needed to support e-Learning environments.