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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Sheldon J. Reaven is a professor at SUNY/Stony Brook, in the Department of Technology and Society, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (where he directs a graduate program in Environmental and Waste Management), and in the Marine Sciences Research Center. He is a graduate of Princeton University (B.A.) and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.) He works on environmental disputes, such as those over nuclear waste and power risks, recycling and pollution prevention, global warming, and cool futuristic technologies, and philosophy and history of science and technology, especially the diagnosis of methodological, conceptual, and ethical issues underlying scientific controversies.

For the past five years, he has been working especially on nuclear, chemical, and biological threats and teaching his Honors College course, "Weapons of Mass Destruction and the War on Terrorism."

Professor Reaven is an inveterate military history buff, a passionate crusader for classical music, and an ardent admirer of golden retrievers -- the Cadillac of Dogs. Frightened in his tender years by giant ants in Them and the giant squid in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, he has been an aficionado of science fiction ever since. Inasmuch as he has the requisite strange and wide-ranging interests, he was Faculty Advisor to I-CON and to the Science Fiction Forum for twelve years.