Greetings! Prof. Tate is no longer at UNT in a regular capacity (although he retains an adjunct appointment to continue advising Ph.D. students who have been working with him). Prof. Tate is now Department Head for the Department of Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This home page (at UNT) will stay around for a little while as an archive of past information, but will not be updated. For the latest from Prof. Tate, please see his UNCG homepage.

You've reached Steve Tate's new and improved home page at the University of North Texas. Here you can find information about my research and teaching, as well as contact information. I'm experimenting with a more modern design — a good thing seeing how I really hadn't changed my web page since around 1993. If you find anything that doesn't look right, or if you find any dead links, please let me know.

About me: I've been at UNT since 1993, and am currently working in the area of computer security and cryptography. I have created several courses in this area, and students wanting to focus on computer security can see my computer security advising page.

I'm director of the Center for Information and Computer Security, a multi-disciplinary center with technical, business, and legal expertise in the area of computer security and related areas such as computer crime. My own research lab, the CoPS Lab, is more tightly focused on problems of cryptographic protocols, secure communication, and hardware-assisted security.

For more detailed information, please see the links over on the left.