Jun 26, 2007 - Archived - This is the archive of the I-CON 26 website, it will no longer be updated. For the latest I-CON news, please visit the main I-CON site at http://iconsf.org

Apr 30, 2007 - Indie Movies - The final list of indie movies shown at I-CON26 has been updated, check it out at the films page.

Apr 17, 2007 - AeroSith at I-CON 26 on Youtube - You can find a video of AeroSith performing at I-CON 26 on youtube here. Enjoy!

Apr 3, 2007 - Charity Auction - A video of Spat doing some creative auctioning for charity at I-CON 26 can be found on youtube here. Our charity auction this year benefited Breast Cancer Help, find more info here!

Mar 25, 2007 - I-CON 26 Photo Highlights - A small photo gallery has been added here. It will be updated as frequently as possible. Enjoy the pics!

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

When not doing computer systems and software engineering consulting work, Ed's research projects in the past year include: continuing the development of advanced analytical methods for computing Standard Model predictions for high-energy particle experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (due to begin "low-power" experiments this Fall, full-power next year) using the mathematics of Roger Penrose's Twistors; reviewing some startling data from Long Island's own Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, which at the very least could be the first application of Superstring/M-Theory *mathematics* to successfully explain and predict experimental results (a technique known as ADS/CFT or "Maldecena" Correspondence is being applied to predict and explain observed TeV-range quark-gluon plasma jets that Quantum Chromodynamics can't explain); and assisting in the effort to identify which one of an estimated 10^500 4-dimensional "ground states" of the 11-dimensional Superstring/M-Theory exactly represent our universe, including progress on a proof that an exhaustive computational approach to this search is an NP-Complete problem and progress on modeling this search on a (hypothetical) massive quantum computer to (hopefully) accomplish it in less than one lifetime!

He has Bachelors and Masters 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), and the IEEE Computer Society.