Events and Sightings

This department article features stories about the following: History session at the annual conference of the Associazione Italiana per l´Informatica e il Calcolo Automatico (the Italian Computer Society); the announcement of Thomas J. Misa as the new director of the Charles Babbage Institute; the 2004 IEEE Conference on the History of Electronics; obituaries of Jerre D. Noe, William O. Baker, and Shigeru Takahashi; a notice about Computer History Museum events; and the reconstruction of a Greek planetarium.