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Openly gay marine Stephen Funk comes out as the first conscientious objector of the U.S. war with Iraq as of May 13, 2003. When his Marine reserve unit was called to active duty in February, 21-year-old Funk did not report. But on April 1, 2003 after having been AWOL for 47 days, Funk turned himself in, in San Jose, California. In his hands he carried papers declaring himself a conscientious objector of the war. In a surprising move of leniency, Funk was not arrested, though at press time the Marines were deciding to punish him. He instead must report to San Jose in California while his application is processed. If convicted as a deserter, he could face up to two years in military prison.

Examines some of the process-specific papers in the 2003 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference in San Jose, California. Embedded software; Novel circuit architectures; Memory paradigms and packaging challenges.

Reports that the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference will be moved from May to September 21-24, 2003 at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, California. Benefit of the change to attenders and presenters; Deadline for the submission of papers for the event.

Previews the 2002 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) to be held in San Jose, California. Design-related papers, panels and workshops to be featured; Parallel workshops on the OpenAccess standards effort, open-source circuit simulation and languages; Opening keynote address to be given by Chekib Akrout, director of microprocessor development at IBM Microelectronics.

Focuses on the winners of the Young Investor Award for the paper entitled 'New Photorefractive Polymer Composites Highly Sensitive at 1500 nm,' announced at the Photonics West trade show in San Jose, California on January 2002.