Press Releases

Dr. David K.P. Li, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank of East Asia, Ltd., in Hong Kong, has been appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study.

Li was educated at Cambridge University, where he received an M.A. in economics and law. Cambridge awarded him an honorary LL.D. in 1993, and he has received honorary doctor of laws degrees from the University of Warwick and the University of Hong Kong, as well as an honorary doctorate in social sciences from Lingnan College.

The Institute for Advanced Study has announced the appointment of Jonathan Irvine Israel, a leading historian of early modern Europe, to the faculty of its School of Historical Studies

Benjamin Weil, Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, will speak on "Digital Art and Museum Culture" on January 17 at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study. A reception will follow.

November 14, 2000: George Dyson, visiting lecturer and research associate at Western Washington University, will speak on "What If Artificial Life Isn't? The Origins of the Digital Universe at the Institute for Advanced Study" on November 29 at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study. A reception will follow. He will discuss the role of the Institute's Electronic Computer Project (1945-57) in the origins of digital computing.