This is an announcement for the paper "Random processes via the combinatorial dimension: introductory notes" by Mark Rudelson and Roman Vershynin. Abstract: This is an informal discussion on one of the basic problems in the theory of empirical processes, addressed in our preprint "Combinatorics of random processes and sections of convex bodies", which is available at ArXiV and from our web pages. Archive classification: Functional Analysis; Probability Theory Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B09, 60G15, 68Q15 Remarks: 4 pages The source file(s), rv-processes-description.tex: 12005 bytes, is(are) stored in gzipped form as 0404193.gz with size 5kb. The corresponding postcript file has gzipped size 30kb. Submitted from: vershynin@math.ucdavis.edu The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.FA/0404193 or http://arXiv.org/abs/math.FA/0404193 or by email in unzipped form by transmitting an empty message with subject line uget 0404193 or in gzipped form by using subject line get 0404193 to: math@arXiv.org.