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ADVISORY/L.I. Students to Hear From Incremax CEO About "Practical Computing".


--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Native of Long Island will Discuss "Aggressive Learning"

Kerry Gerontianos, president of Incremax Technologies, the New York-based software services firm, will speak November 18 to a group of Stony Brook Stony Brook may refer to:

Massachusetts:
  • Stony Brook, a tributary of the Charles River in Boston
  • Stony Brook (MBTA station) on the Orange Line in Jamaica Plain
  • Stony Brook (B&M station), a former Boston and Maine Railroad station in Weston
 students on "The Future of Practical Computing." The campus Computing Society will host.

The experienced software executive will explain how "learning how to learn" offers the ability to keep pace with rapidly changing technologies. He will also discuss how the fast-paced computing industry demands "aggressive learning" to avoid obsolescence ob·so·les·cent  
adj.
1. Being in the process of passing out of use or usefulness; becoming obsolete.

2. Biology Gradually disappearing; imperfectly or only slightly developed.
.

Mr. Gerontianos will explain why the 70s "structured programming" remains such a critical topic today, and how object-oriented programming object-oriented programming, a modular approach to computer program (software) design. Each module, or object, combines data and procedures (sequences of instructions) that act on the data; in traditional, or procedural, programming the data are separated from the  has its roots therein.

Stony Brook's Computer Science Department is ranked 15th nationwide by the prestigious Gourman Report The Gourman Report is Dr. Jack Gourman's own ranking guide for undergraduate programs and professional programs in American and International Universities. It has been widely criticized for not disclosing criteria or ranking methods,[1][2] .

Kerry Gerontianos was born on Long Island and raised in Dix Hills. He has been working in the technology field for the last 15 years and has played prominent technical and managerial roles in both software services and product companies.

He has a considerable knowledge of a wide range of technologies. He formed Incremax five years ago as a services company and is planning to enter the product arena within the next 18 months. Incremax clients include Dover Corporation Dover Corporation (NYSE: DOV) is a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of specialized industrial products and equipment within six segments. It was historically best known for its former business of the manufacture of elevators from the late 19th Century through the 1990s. , The Carson Group, International Flavors & Fragrances, Integra Information, and others.

Kerry Gerontianos will be available for interviews.

DATE: November 18, 1998

TIME: 12:45-2:00 p.m.

PLACE: Old Engineering 145

For Further Information, Contact: William H. Douglass

For other people named William Douglas, see William Douglas (disambiguation).
William Harris Douglas (December 5, 1853 - January 27, 1944) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
 (212) 888-1900 billd@incremax.com www.incremax.com
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