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!

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Ed Bishop is President and owner of EDSys Incorporated, a consulting firm based in New Jersey providing innovative systems and software engineering solutions for government agencies, Fortune 100 and Inc 100 companies in a wide range of industries including financial services, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, alternative energy and nanotechnology.

He also participates in numerous and wide-ranging scientific research projects, including postgraduate research at Rutgers University in high-energy theoretical physics (superstring and quantum gravity theories), pure and applied mathematics (algebraic geometry, category theory, metamathematics, and quantum information theory) and computer science (artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, massively parallel computing and quantum computing).

Current projects include assisting a biotech startup in its clinical evaluations of 10 new antibiotics and 1 new anti-cancer drug developed from deep-ocean communal life forms called Rusticles and assisting the New York Fire Department in developing a detailed forensic reconstruction of the collapse of the Twin Towers and the spread of the resulting dust plumes by adapting mathematical and computer models from Vulcanology research (while also providing valuable test data for the models) in the hopes of saving many lives in the future by better understanding necessary evacuation ranges and potential areas of safety from skyscraper collapses and volcanic eruptions.

Ed has degrees in Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is a member in good standing of the American Physical Society (APS), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).