This news item originally appeared in the September 18th issue of the Brown Daily Herald. The complete story can be read at the Herald's website.

When Masi Oka '97 graduated from Brown with a degree in computer science, he never expected that within a few short years he would appear in such television series as Scrubs, Will and Grace and Gilmore Girls. This September marks a new chapter in Oka's career, as he prepares for his first leading role in the NBC series Heroes, which will premiere Monday, Sept. 25.

Oka knew he wanted a career that would ...

Bryan Cantrill '96, Mike Shapiro '96, '97 Sc.M., and Adam Leventhal '01 -- all engineers at Sun Microsystems -- received the top prize in the Wall Street Journal's 2006 Innovation Awards for their work on DTrace.

The following originally appeared on the Wall Street Journal's website.

"Bryan Cantrill and a team of engineers at Sun Microsystems Inc. have devised a way to diagnose misbehaving software quickly and while it's still doing its work. While traditional trouble-shooting programs can take several days of testing to locate a problem, the new technology, called DTrace, is able to track down ...