Five students received their PhDs at Brown's May 2000 graduation, and a sixth has finished her PhD since then. Congratulations, all!

Costas Busch, "A Study on Distributed Structures" (advisor: Maurice Herlihy). Costas is now an assistant professor at RPI.

Jose G. Castanos, "Parallel Adaptive Unstructured Computation" (advisor: John Savage). Jose is now on the research staff at IBM Yorktown Heights.

Vasiliki Chatzi, "Integer-Coordinate Crystallline Meshes" (advisor: Franco Preparata). Vaso is now working at Synopsys, Inc. in Mountain View.

Niyu Ge, "An Approach to Anaphoric Pronouns" (advisor: Eugene Charniak). Niyu is also ...

We are delighted to announce that InterTrust Technologies is our newest Industrial Partner; we now have 10 Partner companies. By a happy coincidence, Joe Marconis, who previously worked for EMC and was largely responsible for their joining the IPP fold, recently began working for InterTrust and was responsible for InterTrust's becoming a Partner. Joe is an avid IPP disciple, and we are grateful for his enthusiastic support.

Based in Santa Clara, California, InterTrust is involved with digital rights management technology for the Internet. Their MetaTrust Utility provides a unique approach to commercializing DRM technology. They have recently opened a ...