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Sebastian Ciancio, professor and chair of the Department of Periodontology in the School of Dental Medicine, presented the keynote address, "Periodontal Disease: Current Concepts," at the 12th Annual American Dental Veterinary Association meeting on Nov. 21 in New Orleans. He lectured at the Academy of General Dentistry meeting in Chicago Dec. 2, and will speak Jan. 15 at a USC symposium and Feb. 5 at the University of Seattle.

William J. Rapaport, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and adjunct professor of philosophy, is co-editor with Francesco Orilia of the Department of Philosophy and Human Sciences, University of Macerata, Italy, of the book, "Thought, Language and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castaņeda," in Kluwer Academic Publishers' Philosophical Studies Series. Rapaport is a member of the Center for Cognitive Science.

Stuart C. Shapiro, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), presented an invited talk at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Cognitive Robotics in Orlando, Fla. His topic, "Embodied Cassie," concerned work on embodied autonomous agents by Shapiro and his research group. His article, "A Procedural Solution to the Unexpected Hanging and Sorites Paradoxes," has been published in the October issue of Mind, a major journal of philosophy.

Christopher Gibbs, assistant professor of music, has been elected to the Chautauqua Institution Board of Trustees. Gibbs is editor of "The Cambridge Companion to Schubert" and has completed a biography of Schubert for Cambridge University Press.