In This Issue:

New Departmental Space

Presidential Fellows

Class of 2004

CVN is "Best of Web"

TAs Receive Awards

Heffner Hydrologic Lab

SEAS Teachers Honored

Free Email Forwarding

High School Students Build Robot

Annual Fund Hits New High

Alumni Briefs

Camp Columbia Reunion

Marconi Honors Privacy Pioineers

New Marconi Fellows Whitfield Diffie, center left, and Martin Hellman, center right, hold their Marconi Awards, flanked by John Jay Iselin, left, and Martin Meyerson, right, president and chairman, respectively, of the Marconi International Fellowship Foundation.

Hellman and Diffie, who created mathematical formulations to protect private communications on the Internet, were honored at the Marconi Foundation's annual dinner in Low Library on October 10. They share the $100,000 Fellowship prize that is often called the "Nobel prize in telecommunications.

"At a symposium that preceded the awards, George Heilmeier, chairman emeritus of Bellcore, discussed the future of information systems. His prediction: The network of the future will be less "robust" than the network of today.

Whitfield Diffie warned of security concerns for information that is outsourced, saying that encryption solves only 1% of the privacy problem while Martin Hellman credited their success to disregarding obstacles and "being foolish in the best sense of the word."