Siegfried Bocionek, Chief Operating Officer, Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services, presented a lecture on March 15, 2005 entitled, “The Digital Hospital: Development of Metrics- Driven Efficient Software.” Dr. Bocionek is responsible for technology and innovation at Siemens and directs the development of workflow-based solutions across all business segments. Dr. Bocionek has served as a Visiting Scientist in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon and has produced two books on the topics of rule-based programming in artificial intelligence (AI) and the programming of intelligent robots.

Hital R. Meswani, Executive Director, Reliance Industries Limited, was the guest lecturer on April 7, 2005, presenting his talk entitled, “Ideas that Worked: Creation of World-Class Businesses through Management of Technology.” Mr. Meswani also serves on the board of the flagship company of the Reliance Group based in India. He is responsible for all manufacturing and project activities of the entire group and for the business operations of Reliance Petroleum, including refining and downstream marketing. Mr. Meswani is a Management and Technology graduate of Penn, receiving a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the School of Engineering and a B.S. in Economics from Wharton. He also serves on the Board of Overseers of the School of Engineering.

Barbara Liskov, Ford Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was the honored speaker at the Saul Gorn Memorial Lecture on April 14, 2005, sponsored by the Department of Computer and Information Science and the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. Dr. Liskov’s lecture entitled, “Providing Secure Storage on the Internet,” discussed the critical need for reliability in storage on the Internet. Her research addresses the need for large-scale, high-performance storage on a large collection of servers with a large number of simultaneous users. The Saul Gorn Lecture Series was established to honor the late Dr. Saul Gorn who played a key role in the establishment of the Computer Science Graduate Group in the Moore School, which later became the Department of Computer and Information Science.

William B. Russel, A.W. Marks ‘19 Professor of Chemical Engineering and Dean of the Graduate School, Princeton University, was this year’s honoree. Dr. Russel’s lecture on January 24, 2005, “Adventures in Micro-Fabrication: Patterning of Thin Polymer Films via Electrostratic and Elastic Instabilities,” addressed his work in the area of colloid and interface science. Additional information on the John A. Quinn Lecture Series may be found in article, Former Students Sponsor Quinn Lecture Series.