Jeff and Max installing the computer museum

Take a look at one of the real coups of CS's current renovation/expansion! The department's "computer museum", which used to be clustered in the dark under the 4th floor stairs, is now on five go-go-dancer platforms in the center of the third-to-fifth-floor stairwell. Here Jeff Coady is installing the Ramtek 9400 raster-graphics display (used in CS from ca. 1979 to 1984) with Max Salvas looking on. Above the Ramtek is a Sun-3/60 (1985-89), and in the background is a Sun-2 (1987-1990).

We’re happy to announce that Prof. David Laidlaw has received a grant of $100,000 in research seed funds from Brown’s Office of the Vice President of Research. The purpose of this seed funding, according to the OVPR web page, is “to help faculty develop competitive proposals for external support, principally for large-scale multi-investigator projects”; it is thus intended for research projects early in their gestation, well after they’re a gleam in the PI’s eye but before a fundable proposal about them could be written.

David’s project entails getting “pilot results in support of a ...