State comptroller to visit: The James Norris Oliphant Distinguished Fellows Lecture Series is sponsoring the visit of New York State Comptroller H. Carl McCall to campus on Monday, April 28. McCall will be at Sigma Phi Fraternity from 3 to 5 p.m., and the event is free and open to the public. Attendees will have the opportunity to talk informally with McCall and ask questions. The visit is co-sponsored by the Cornell Democrats, the Office of the Dean of Students, the Department of Romance Studies, CRESP, the American Indian Program, the Black Graduate and Professional Students Association, MILRSO and the Department of Government. For information, contact Peter Lallas, chairman of the Oliphant Lecture Series, at 257-6831.
Computer technology symposium: Cornell engineers and computer scientists are invited to a symposium featuring J. Peter Krusius, professor of electrical engineering, and H. Malvin Kalos, professor of physics, on April 30 at 3 p.m. in 101 Phillips Hall. Krusius, director of the Joint Services Electronic Program and director of the Electronic Packaging Program at Cornell, will address the topic "Chips and Packages as Drivers of Computing Technology." He will discuss the past, present and future of chip and packaging technology and sketch the structure, capabilities and perhaps cost of computer technology around 2010. Kalos, director of the Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering, will discuss "The Future of High-Performance Computational Science." He will review the accomplishments of the past years and predict the challenges of the next 10: the continuing antithesis of large-scale versus small-scale computing, of centralized versus local computing versus geographically distributed computing. The symposium honors Patrick A. Toole, retired IBM senior vice president and group executive, Technology Group. Toole served as IBM's partnership executive to Cornell and was an active sponsor of the Cornell Theory Center and the Electronic Packaging Program.
Advisory board applications: The Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Resource Office is accepting applications for seats on its advisory board for the coming year. Cornell faculty, staff, undergraduate and graduate students and alumni may apply by Friday, April 25. For more information, contact the office at LGBRO@cornell.edu or 254-4987.