On 29 November 2001, at 4:00 p.m., the CS Department will host the first annual Paris Kanellakis lecture: Dr. Mihalis Yannakakis, of Avaya Laboratories, will speak on ``Progress in System Modeling and Testing.'' This lecture series honors Paris Kanellakis, a distinguished computer science theoretician who was an esteemed and beloved member of this department. His death in a December, 1995 airplane accident was a profound loss of which we are especially reminded at this time of year. We are therefore all the more delighted now to inaugurate this lecture series in his memory.

Participants in 1 Nov 2001 IPP Symposium

Last Thursday our Industrial Partners Program held its 28th IPP Symposium, organized by Prof. Shriram Krishnamurthi, on `Component Software and Technologies'. Speakers came to Brown from Northeastern, IBM, University of Utah, GTECH, IBM, and Sun Microsystems. There were unusually lively discussions to accompany the usual wonderful food (especially the sinfully opulent desserts!).

Shriram kicked off the day with an overview of component technologies and of some of the challenges facing them, summarizing some work being done at Brown along the way. The remaining speakers addressed specific topics. Mirek Kula and Bob Rogers of ...

The Fall, 2001 issue of conduit! has just hit the stands; it's available at

http://www.cs.brown.edu/publications/conduit/

as are all previous issues back to its beginning in March, 1992.

This website is, in fact, a very impressive ten-year collection of articles on technical matters leavened with lighter pieces about the doings of department members, CS undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni/ae. Do check it out -- it well repays serious browsing!

The most recent issue of Brown's George Street Journal contains a long and interesting article on CS's five ITR grants, complete with a picture of CS's own Michael Black: see

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/vol26/26GSJ08c.html