Apr 12, 2006 - Site Downtime - Some of you may have noticed problems with the I-CON site over the past few days. We have been having hardware issues with our server, which have now been resolved. All site functionality should now be fully restored... if you notice any issues, please email webmaster@iconsf.org. Thank you.

Mar 22, 2006 - Important Travel Update! - The Suffolk County Half Marathon will be taking place this Sunday, resulting in closures on Nichols Road between the Long Island Expressway and Rt. 347. Please use these directions to get to the convention on Sunday.

Mar 22, 2006 - New I-CON Community - ICON Science Fiction, Inc. is proud to announce its new project, community.iconsf.org. Designed to encourage community involvement and the open sharing of ideas and information, community.iconsf.org is our new hub for everyone who is interested in Science Fiction, Fact, and Fantasy (and Gaming, Anime, and everything else you might see at I-CON - and likely a whole lot more!). We encourage you all to stop in, take a look, and speak your mind - this site was created to allow you to immerse yourself further in the things that matter to you (and us).

Mar 22, 2006 - Indie Film Schedule - In addition to the main schedule and gaming schedule linked from our home page, the Indie Film schedule is now online. Also, an HTML (webpage) version of the schedule is coming soon, we thank everyone for their patience.

Mar 21, 2006 - Schedule Coming Soon Posted! - We know that many of you were anxiously awaiting the schedule for I-CON. Well, it's here! Go to the site index and check it out to see everything what I-CON 25 has in store for you!

News Archive

Confirmed Guests:

Ed Bishop President/Owner of EdSys Incorporated	Kevin Conod Astronomer for the Newark Museum's Dreyfuss Planetarium	Dr. Gary Halada Material Science and Nanotechnology Expert
Yoji Kondo Astrophysicist and Sci Fi Author (a.k.a. Eric Kotani)	Chirakkal V. Krishnan, Ph. D. Chemistry Magic Show	Michael Laine President, LiftPort Space Elevator Group
Charles Liu Astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History	Wil McCarthy Scientist	Elizabeth Mezzacappa Experimental Psychologist
Roderick Milliron Rocket Systems Engineer, President/Co-founder of Interorbital Systems	Randa Relich Milliron CEO, CIO, Interorbital Systems	Benjamin J. Parris Executive Directior, Long Island Museum of Science & Technology
Corey Powell Senior Editor - Discover magazine	Sheldon Reaven SUNY Stony Brook Professor	Gary Shaw Vice Dean of Touro Law, Intellectual Property Rights Expert
Dr. Jed Shumsky Neuroscientist	Ian Randal Strock Chronicle News Editor	Helio Takai, Ph.D. BNL Physicist

The Science and Technology Track looks forward to 2006 as we look back. What are the Science Facts of Time Travel? What other science fiction has been brought to reality?

What has evolved since ICON was founded?
Were you born?
What were computers like?
What were video, card, or board games like?

If you have attended I-CONs past as convention staff or as a guest, please do let us know which ones! Travel back in your scrapbook for the best panels, coolest ideas, springboards we may have helped you with.

Our 2nd Annual Mad Science Fair is accepting project applications on (or off, if it's cool) the theme of Time Travel. See the rules here. The Mad Science Fair has been cancelled this year. We appologize for the inconvencience.

Tentative guests include:

• Astronomers - How better to gaze back in time than peer to the oldest, outermost edges of the Universe?
• Astrophysicists - What do Strings have to do with time travel?
• Space advocates look at the shuttle and the ISS, and new NASA projects.
• Cryogenics experts freeze and preserve your head (or more) until medicine can cure what ail(ed) you.
• Faculty from Brookhaven National Lab, SUNY Stony Brook, and others answering questions like:
  • How can people live safely in Space?
  • What is it like inside the sun?
  • Can we engineer bacteria (or other organisms) to make the Earth nicer?
  • Who will genetically tailored mice help?
  • Why do we still rely on gasoline so strongly?
  • When will vast computing power reach its next limit? What can we do next?
• FIRST LEGO League - test your LEGO skill and make a fully automated futuristic helper robot!
• Long Island Advanced Rocketry Society brings us their rocket launch - TWICE.
• We've invited private space ventures LiftPort and Interorbital. On rockets or on tether - where do we go from here?

We welcome guest ideas and panel topic ideas from our members and visitors - drop a suggestion to scitech@iconsf.org!

All participants, information, and programming subject to change without notice prior to the convention - though every effort will be made to give you notice!