(We mean the city, not the TV show, though the TV show's been getting darn good ink too recently.) The December, 2000 issue of Money magazine rates Providence as `the best place to live in the Northeast', saying that, indeed, it's not unlike the `idyllic town with a clean, sparkling river, colonial-style homes and well-groomed lawns' that appears on TV. The article (to be found at http://www.money.com/money/depts/real_estate/bplive/providence.html) cites the environmentally and aesthetically sensitive new construction boom in Providence's downtown, including Waterplace Park and the upscale 150-store mall. And ...

Peter Wegner Professor Emeritus, Brown University

"For many years of generous service to ACM and the computing community,including outstanding and inspiring leadership in publications and in charting research directions for computer science."

During his distinguished research career Peter Wegner has written or edited over a dozen books in the areas of programming languages and software engineering. For decades, he has been an initiator in ACM's educational and publication efforts, performing invaluable service to innumerable readers, researchers, practitioners and students. As editor-in-chief of ACM Press Books (1987-1992), and the ACM Computing Surveys (1995-1999), Dr. Wegner demonstrated innovative ...

Readers of the New Yorker encountered an unexpected name in its November 27 issue on "The Digital Age": that of Steve Feiner, Brown B.A. (Music) 1973, Ph.D. (Computer Science) 1987. In a leisurely article discussing the Global Positioning System (GPS) in the bemused layperson's tone typical of the magazine, the writer describes his search for some use for GPS -- something to justify its recent description as `a revolutionary tool of the digital world.' This search led him to the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Laboratory at Columbia, where he talked at length to Steven K ...

Brown undergraduates Meredith Ringel and Andrew Schwerin have received honorable mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate competition. They are two out of only 27 undergraduates nationwide so honored. Heartiest congratulations, Merrie and Andrew!

In announcing the awards, CRA's Selection Committee said:

"This year's nominees were a very impressive group. A number of them were commended for making significant contributions to more than one research project, several were authors or coauthors on multiple papers, others had made presentations at prestigious conferences, some had produced software artifacts that were in widespread use, and a few had ...