Brown CS News

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 …

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 …

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

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 …