The Computer Science Department's
Industrial Partners Program
celebrates its 15th year with a special
IPP SUMMIT, May 24, 2004


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Welcome signage
IPP Bookmarks
Registration table in MacMillan
There were beautiful centerpieces.
And no end of refrigerator magnets!
The IPP Summit speakers and hosts: l to r: Host, Professor and IPP Co-Director, John Savage; keynote speaker, John Seeley Brown '62, Visiting Scholar, Annenberg Center, USC; Richard Waters '72, President and CEO, MERL; Saul Kaplan, Director, Business Development, RI Economic Development Corporation; John Preston, Senior Lecturer, MIT; Robert Sproull, Fellow and VP, Sun Microsystems; Host, Professor and IPP Co-Director, Michael Black; Alfred Spector, VP Services and Software, IBM Research; Jack Breese, Director, Microsoft Research; Per-Kristian Halvorsen, VP & Director, Solutions and Services, Research Center, HP Labs.
Participants during a break, under the watchful eye of W. Duncan MacMillan '53, for whom the building is named.
Speaker, Bob Sproull, center; Eli Upfal, CS Chairman to the right.
The sculpture "Brushstrokes" by Roy Lichtenstein, on loan to Brown for two years, was a colorful and lively addition to the Summit location.
CS Chairman Eli Upfal and a coterie of participants.
Prof. Eugene Charniak holding forth with speakers Breese and Halvorsen; John Schuster from Network Appliance, our newest Industrial Partner, is on the left (taken from inside the lobby).
The same subject taken from outside.
The following images show Summit participants enjoy lunch and sparkling conversation in the tent.
 
 

Speaker Jack Breese and Prof. Tom Dean enjoy a laugh over dessert.
CS staffer Dawn Reed and Joe Swaty from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
L to R: Professor John Donoghue (Bio-Med),Ex-GTECH CTO and now Brown CS Professor Don Stanford and Richard Stang of Business Innovation Group.
Participants taking a break.
 
Speakers in action.
Co-host Prof. Michael Black introducing Kris Halvorsen's talk.
Co-host Prof. John Savage prepares to introduce Jack Breese of Microsoft Research.
 
 
 
The panel discussion rounds out the day.
 
 


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