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In article <11105@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> (woodruff@cs.ucdavis.edu), woodruff@cs.ucdavis.edu (Allison Woodruff) writes:
> 
>    Through my job at the California Department of Water Resources, I'm 
> involved in Project Sequoia 2000 (which is the successor to Project Athena
> at MIT, which produced X-windows).  The objective of 
> Project Sequoia 2000 is to produce a new computer paradigm for 
> global change researchers, i.e. earth system scientists studying
> things like oceanography, climate, solar irradiance, vegetative
> mapping, etc.  The basic premise is that the current computer systems
> are not adequate to support the kinds of applications that these
> scientists would like to do; Project Sequoia 2000 will develop new
> applications which will enable better research on the environment,
> natural resources management, etc.
> 
>     The researchers, both global change scientists and
> computers scientists, are from UC.  There are a lot of industry 
> sponsors for the project (it's Digital Equipment Corporation's 
> flagship project), for example, DEC, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox.  
> Funding for the next three years is approximately 40 million dollars.  
> Research areas will include networking, database management, 
> scientific visualization, and hardware.
> 
>     As part of the project, there will be a demo which will be completed
> in April-May 1992.  There will be 3-5 minute intro during which 
> scientific visualization sequences, animation sequences, video,
> geographic information systems coverages, satellite images, weather
> mapping, etc. will be shown.  After the introduction, someone will
> probably do some examples of operations with the software.  The
> purpose of the demo is to promote public awareness of the project,
> encourage further industry support, etc.
> 
>     We're starting to make decisions about what music to use for the demo,
> and would appreciate comments on the following: 
> 
> o  Suggestions of pieces with an environmental focus
> 
> o  Suggestions of pieces which would be good for a demo of this type
> 
> o  Suggestions of artists who might be willing to donate copyrights
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You stated above that the funding for the next three years is approximately
40 million dollars and you expect an artist to "donate copyrights"
of their livelyhood?  For what purpose?  For the so-called
"honor" ?   No doubt that you will get a university educator
with time on there hands and a number of grad students doing
their busy work so they can "donate copyrights".  I would
think that people in the music business will pass on this.
                                                        


>    for music for this environmental cause
> 
> o  Information on copyright laws, esp. for performances of classical music
> 
> 
>    I've enclosed a more detailed abstract of the Sequoia 2000 Project
> below, for those who are interested.  Thank you for your time.
> 
>    Please mail responses to me: woodruff@cs.ucdavis.edu
> 
>    
> --Allison Woodruff
> 
> 
> Abstract:
> 
> Better data management is crucial to the success of scientific 
> investigations of natural resources management.  Achieving the 
> goals of the U.S. Global Change Research Program will depend not 
> only on improved measurement systems, but also on improved data 
> systems that will allow scientists to manipulate the resulting 
> large-scale data sets and climate system models, as well as 
> compare model results with observations.  New modes of research
> will require massive amounts of diverse data to be stored, 
> organized, accessed, distributed, visualized, and analyzed.  
> 
> As the successor to Project Athena at MIT, Sequoia 2000 will 
> address these issues.  The primary participants are DEC and 
> researchers from UC.  Research will be conducted in the areas of 
> storage, networking, distributed file systems, extensible 
> distributed data base management, and scientific visualization. 
> 
David A. Roth