MEMORANDUM
To: Members And Friends
NFB R&D Committee
From: T. V. Cranmer, Chairman
Subject: Research on the Net
Date: October 10, 1994
By all accounts, Government, military and academic research played
a seminal role in founding and sustaining the Internet. Research
remains a major activity on the Net. It follows that the Net can
serve our research needs and speed our progress toward our R&D
goals, if we can develop strategies for efficient utilization of
it's resources.
Here are a few thoughts on how we might proceed. I invite your
comments on these ideas, and encourage new ideas from all on this
list.
Carefully crafted descriptions of our current research projects may
be posted to appropriate Usenet groups with an invitation to
interested people to contact us.
Mr. Buhrow might post an article describing our Unix box project to
some of the Unix groups. The hardware of this project is
assembled. Considerable programming is required. We don't have
the manpower (I should say the time,) to do this programming within
the Committee. We are prepared to pay for what we need to complete
the Unix box, provided Mr. Buhrow, the project director, proscribes
and monitors the outside work.
The numerically controlled router, dubbed the Wood Robot by Mr.
Jaquiss, is now operating--while in need of further refinement.
Can Net resources be harnessed in the final work on this project?
I should mention that the Wood Robot project owes its origin to the
Net.
I have long maintained that answers to some of our research goals
will be found in discovery or invention of new materials. To test
this posit, I will post to the Science.materials and
Science.chemistry groups an excerpt describing our need for a
Tactile Pencil from my paper presented two years ago at the
US/Canada Conference on Technology. (Smiles permitted here; but
don't laugh.(
More and more, people are working at their computers. more and
more of their computers are connected to the Net. We should enlist
them in our work.
How?
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