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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Website: http://www.matscieng.sunysb.edu/halada1.html

Dr. Gary P. Halada is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Laboratory for Surface Analysis and Corrosion Science in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stony Brook University. He has over sixty publications, including several chapters in technical books and papers in a number of international materials research journals. He is also director of the undergraduate program in Engineering Science, and a principal investigator or co-principal investigator for research programs in state-of-the-art materials and coatings development, nanoscale engineering, and environmental sciences, as well as for education programs from the middle school to the graduate level. Gary also has a long term association with science fiction at Stony Brook, having been one of the founders of ICON (as a committee member for the first ten or so conventions), a former three-term president and head librarian of the Science Fiction Forum, one of the originators of Destinies (the "voice of science fiction" on WUSB and currently one of the longest running science fiction radio shows anywhere), and one of the proud few who can claim to have attended every ICON (while remaining reasonably sane).