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The Institute for Advanced Study has received a grant of $650,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City to support visiting memberships for young scholars in the School of Historical Studies. This funding is a renewal of a grant initiated in academic year 1997-98, and will cover the five-year period of academic year 2002-03 through 2006-07.

Walter Gilbert, Carl M. Loeb University Professor in Harvard University's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, will speak on "Origin and Evolution of Genes" at 4:30 p.m. on April 18 in Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study. The event is part of the Institute's Public Lecture Series in Biology. A reception in the Common Room of Fuld Hall will follow the lecture.

The Institute for Advanced Study is presenting a day of public lectures on March 24, to be held in Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the Institute.

The lectures are being offered as part of the Biennial Conference of the Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study (AMIAS), an organization of scholars who at some time during their academic career have spent from three months to three years pursuing research at the Institute.

Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak on "Intimate Machines: Human Identity and 'Affective' Computing" on March 28 at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study. A reception will follow.

The talk will explore a new set of identity effects of the computer presence that are associated with several new directions in the development of computer technology.