Computer Science Professor Andries van Dam will address the undergraduate Class of 2006 and entering graduate and medical students during Opening Convocation Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2002, on The College Green. Van Dam, who co-founded Brown's Department of Computer Science in 1978, will deliver an address that alludes to a Yogi Berra line, "The Future Ain't What It Used To Be." He will speak about the future of information technology, its implications and impact on society.

The ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. with a procession of faculty, administrators and students through the Van Wickle Gates ...

We write to welcome to the CS Department -- and to Brown -- Anna Lysyanskaya, this year's new Assistant Professor. She comes to us with a fresh-minted Ph.D. from MIT, where she also got a Master's; her Ph.D. thesis advisor was Ronald Rivest, and her topic "Using cryptography to ensure privacy." She received her undergraduate degree from Smith, also the source of Ruth Simmons, Brown's highly regarded President.

Anna is a theoretician, with an emphasis on the important subfield of cryptography. She's had extensive teaching experience at MIT and has spent many summers working ...