About Us

Who we are

Mario A. Forcinito was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he took his Bachelor degree in Engineering. He obtained his doctorate in Engineering at the University of Calgary under the supervision of M. Epstein.

Dr. Forcinito is a Professional Engineer (member of APEGGA and APEY) with over fifteen years experience as an industrial consultant. His experience includes the direction of R&D efforts, patenting and technical documentation for an encryption company and the .

He is a member of IEEE Computer Society and ASME and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and lectured on, cryptography, biomechanics and numerical methods.

Aiden A. Bruen was born in Galway, Ireland. He read mathematics for his Undergraduate and Master's degree in Dublin. He received his doctorate at the University of Toronto, supervised by F. A. Sherk. At Toronto he also worked with H. S. M. Coxeter, E. Ellers and A. Lehman.

Dr. Bruen is an adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Calgary. He has over 100 published articles in referred journals and has served for many years on the editorial Board of Designs, Codes and Cryptography . Prior to his appointment in Calgary he worked in mathematical biology at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

His research interests include Error-Correcting codes, number theory, algebraic geometries, information theory and cryptography.