From: mcdaniel@crhc.uiuc.edu (Vicki McDaniel)
Newsgroups: comp.simulation,news.announce.conferences,alt.cad
Subject: ICCAD-92 Registration due October 12
Date: 5 Oct 1992 11:42:45 -0500
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Summary: Information on ICCAD-92 program and registration
Keywords: ICCAD-92 program and registraton (Computer-Aided Design)


			
       ACM/IEEE  International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
		November 8-12, 1992,  Santa Clara, CA  USA

				    ICCAD-92

		  Preregistration deadline: October 12, 1992

    Contents of This Post:

	1) Conference Overview
	2) Schedule of Conference Sessions
	3) Registration Forms (print, clip and mail)

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   CONFERENCE OVERVIEW      CONFERENCE OVERVIEW      CONFERENCE OVERVIEW 
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    The Tenth  International  Conference  on  Computer-Aided  Design,
    ICCAD-92,  offers an exceptionally strong schedule of papers, tu-
    torials, and vendor suites. The program promises to challenge ex-
    perienced   CAD  developers,  hardware  designers,  and  academic
    researchers who want to learn from the latest in CAD research and
    development.

    ICCAD-92 will be held November 8-12, 1992  in  the  Santa  Clara
    Convention  Center, Santa Clara, California.  The conference con-
    centrates on CAD for electronic design and features three days of
    technical  sessions,  one day of  four different tutorials, and a
    lively evening panel discussion.    To  complement  the technical  
    program,   numerous  CAD  vendors  will  have suites at ICCAD-92.  
    This offers the conference attendees a unique opportunity to hold  
    in-depth  technical discussions with vendors on their latest  pro-
    ducts.

    An advance  program  is  available and  can be requested from the
    conference managers, MP associates, by phone, fax or mail:

	MP Associates
	7490 Clubhouse Road, Suite 102
	Boulder, CO  80301

	Telephone: (303) 530-4562

	FAX:       (303) 530-4334

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 ICCAD-92 AT A GLANCE      ICCAD-92 AT A GLANCE      ICCAD-92 AT A GLANCE
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			          Monday, Nov. 9
                                                                            
     8:30                       PLENARY SESSION
    10:00   
                                                                            
    10:30   2A: Design for       2B: Technology and  2C: FPGA Synthesis
    12:30       Test                 Layout                                     
                                                                            
     2:00   3A: Waveform         3B: Topics in       3C: Asynchronous
     3:30       Evaluation           Simulation          Circuit Synthesis  

     4:00   4A: Clocking and     4B: High Density    4C: Formal
     6:00       Level Sensitive      Module              Hardware
                Latches              Assembly            Verification
                                                                
     6:30       PANEL  "University Faculty: Visionaries or Mercenaries?"
     8:00                                                                
                                                                            
			         Tuesday, Nov. 10
                                                                            
     8:30   5A: CMOS Power      5B: Sequential      5C: High-Level
    10:00       and Timing          Circuit             Design
                Estimation          Test Generation
                                                                            
    10:30   6A: Classical       6B: Testing &       6C: Synthesis for
    12:30       Simulation          Diagnosis           DSP Applications
                                                        
                                                                                
     2:00   7A: Analog          7B: Multi-View      7C: Timing in High-
     3:30       CAD                 Design              Level Synthesis
                                    Representations
                                                                            
     4:00   8A: High            8B: Detailed        8C: Topics in
     6:00       Performance         Routing             Logic
                Simulation                              Synthesis
                                                                            
     7:00       Banquet
    10:00                                                                       

			         Wednesday, Nov. 11
                                                                            
     8:30   9A: Partitioning   9B: Interconnect    9C: Engineering and
    10:00       & Clustering       Analysis            Education:
                                                       Trends and Needs
                                                                            
    10:30  10A: High           10B: Hardware/     10C: Retiming and
    12:30       Performance         Software           Sensitization 
                Routing             Co-Design          Conditions
                                                                            
     2:00  11A: Design         11B: Delay          11C: Asynchronous
     3:30       Management          Testing             Synthesis    
                Styles 

     4:00  12A: Placement &    12B: High-Level     12C: Hazards in
     6:00       Floorplan           Testing             Combinational
                Design                                  Synthesis

			         Thursday, Nov. 12 

    Tutorials:

        - Multi-Level Logic Synthesis
        - Interconnect and Packaging Analysis
        - Introduction to Embedded System Design
        - Architectures for Software Systems

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REGISTRATION REGISTRATION REGISTRATION REGISTRATION REGISTRATION REGISTRATION
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			Advance Registration Form
				ICCAD-92
		November 8-12, 1992,  Santa Clara, CA  USA

              Advance Registration Deadline: October 12, 1992

    Send completed registration form and check payable to ICCAD-92 to:

	MP Associates
	Registration Desk
	7490 Clubhouse Rd. #102
	Boulder, CO 80301

	Information Only: (303) 530-4562

    All advance registrations  must  be  postmarked  by  October  12,
    1992.  On-site conference payments must be made by check or cash.
    NO CREDIT CARDS!  No refunds unless cancellation is received  be-
    fore October 12, 1992.  All refunds are subject to a $15 fee.

    Name _______________________________________________________________

    Company ____________________________________________________________

    Mailing Address ____________________________________________________

    Mail Stop __________________________________________________________

    City ________________________________ State __________ Zip _________

    Country _____________________________ Telephone (_____)_____________

    Member No. ACM/IEEE ________________________________________________

    Conference Registration Fees:

			       Before    After
		               Oct. 12   Oct. 12   Amount

    	IEEE/ACM Members	$200	  $260	  ___________
    	Non-Members     	$260	  $325	  ___________
    	Students        	$100	  $100	  ___________
    	One Day Only    	$120	  $140	  ___________
	    select day:	____ Mon   ____ Tues   ____ Wed

    Tutorial Fees:
			       Before    After
		               Oct. 12   Oct. 12   Amount

	IEE/ACM Member Full Day	$280	  $350	  ___________
	Non-Member Full Day	$350	  $435	  ___________
	Students                $100	  $100	  ___________

    Total Amount (Conference and Tutorial)        ___________

    TUTORIAL REGISTRATION: To participate in the tutorials there must 
    be at least a one-day conference registration.   If you have paid 
    the proper amount to  include a tutorial,  please  indicate first 
    (1)  and  second (2) choices.   Tutorials are limited to a first-
    come, first-served basis.

    _______ Multi-Level Logic Synthesis
    _______ Interconnect and Packaging Analysis
    _______ Introduction to Embedded System Design
    _______ Architectures for Software Systems

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Hotel Reservations for ICCAD: 10th Intl. Conference on Computer Aided Design
		November 8-12, 1992,  Santa Clara, CA  USA

               Hotel Reservation Deadline: October 12, 1992

    Hotel reservations will be handled on a first-come,  first-served
    basis  by  the  Santa Clara Housing Bureau.  Reservations must be
    postmarked by OCTOBER 12, 1992 to guarantee availability of rooms
    and  rates  at  the  conference hotels.  The following hotels are
    available:

	Please indicate first (1) and second (2) choices.

	HOTEL			Single		Double
	____ Westin Hotel	$ 95.00		$105.00
	____ Holiday Inn	$ 53.00		$ 53.00
	____ Days Inn		$ 53.00		$ 53.00

    The Days Inn and the Holiday Inn will  provide shuttle service to 
    the Santa Clara Convention Center.   The Westin Hotel is attached
    to the Conference Center.

    Indicate hotel preference above and send completed hotel form to:

    Santa Clara Housing Bureau I
    C/O Santa Clara Convention and Visitors Bureau
    PO Box 387
    Santa Clara, CA 95052                  Caution: Hotel Reservations
					    sent to MPA office will be
    Information Only: (408) 296-7111	    discarded!  No telephone
    Fax Reservations: (415) 227-2602 	    reservations!

    Name _____________________________________________________________

    Company ___________________________________ Mail Stop ____________

    Mailing Address __________________________________________________

    City __________________________________ State ______ Zip _________

    Country __________________________ Phone (_____) _________________

    FAX  (____) ______________________________

    Arrival Date _____________________________ Time __________ AM / PM

    Departure Date ___________________________ Time __________ AM / PM

    A deposit of $85.00, regardless of hotel room rate,  is  required
    by check or credit card.  Make check payable to Santa Clara Hous-
    ing Bureau.  Your reservation will be confirmed by both the Santa
    Clara  Housing  Bureau and the hotel at which you have a reserva-
    tion.  The $85.00 deposit will be applied to your  room  bill  at
    check-in.

  	    ____ VISA  ____ MasterCard  ____ American Express

    Number_________________________________ Expiration Date __________

    Signature_________________________________________________________

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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 08:44:28 MST
Reply-To: "Simulation Applications in Business/Education"              <SIMEDU-L%NMSUVM1.BITNET@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu>
From: Keebom Kang <5030P%NAVPGS.BITNET@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Subject:      OR Division of IIE
To: Multiple recipients of list SIMEDU-L <SIMEDU-L%NMSUVM1.BITNET@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu>

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If you want to include a message, announcement, abstract,
and/or short article regarding simulation methodologies and
applications in the newsletter of the Operations Research Division of
the Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE), please send
it to me directly.
The newsletter is published quarterly, and is distributed among
2,500 members of the OR division of IIE.
The deadline for Winter 92 issue is Oct 10, 92.

Thank you.
Keebom Kang

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From: kadath!ben@hico2.att.com
To: simulation@ufl.edu
Subject: Announcement for Digest
Original-From: ben@whitebase.ukp.com (Bclymer)
Comments: Validated
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 12:52:55 EDT
Organization: UKP Systems, Middletown, NJ

An important new function was created in July 1992 within the Society for 
Computer Simulationh to deal with all aspects of computer simulation as 
applied to global planning and major subsets thereof. It is a "Technical 
Activity" called "Mission Earth".
The person in charge is Zoran Ilic, DEC, Marlboro, MA 01752, EMail 
ilic@yunada.enet.dec.com, FAX (206) 432-9414, voice (206) 655-7408. His 
titles are  Chairman of Mission Earth Technical Activity and Assistant Vice 
President of SCS. Additional information and printed matter concerning 
Mission Earth can be obtained from Ben Clymer, voice (908) 493-4364, EMail 
ben@whitebase.ukp.com.
One of the major thrusts of Mission Earth is to provide sessions at all 
future SCS conferences for presentation of progress, status, and technicxal 
material concerning t5he Activity. Inquiries concerning participation in 
these conferences as a group or session chairperson, panel moderator, 
author, panelist, etc., are to be addressed to Ben. All of these 
participation slots are open at present, and persons to fill them are 
being sought for the Simulation Multriconference (Arlington, VA, March-April 
1993) and for the Summer Computer Simulation Conference (Boston, MA July 
1993) in particular.
A session on discrete event simulation applications to global planning is 
being planned for the 1993 Winter Simulation Conference. If you know of any 
such work, please tell Ben.
A standards committee is being established under the Technical Activity to 
develop standards for global modeling, simulation, and planning. Anyone 
interested in helping or taking charge may contact Ben.
A search of the literature has been started by Bruce Fairchild. He can be 
contacted by interested persons by voice on evenings or weekends at (205) 
772-9550 or by EMail at fairchildb@h8700a.a1.ca.boeing.com.
John McLeod will be spearheading the dissemination of information concerning 
the applications of simulation for global planning. He can be reached by 
voice at (619) 454-0966 or by EMail at mcleod@sdsc.bitnet. He would 
appreciate help in collecting, processing and dissemination of information.
The Technical Activity is in need of additional members to participate in 
the above and other activities. Contact Zoran if interested.





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Date:    Fri, 2 Oct 92 10:20:15 GMT
From: mcleod@Sdsc.Edu
Subject: E-S3 Vol.1 No.9 Part Two

 
The following sample issue of our electronic magazine, "E-S3",
covering selected topics about computer modeling and simulation,
is sent to you with the compliments of the publisher of the
technical journal SIMULATION, the Society for Computer
Simulation, and John and Suzette McLeod, the Editors of
Simulation in the Service of Society (S3), a special section of
that journal.  If you do not care to receive future issues please
type REPLY -- cancel.  Let's not clutter up our E-mail with "Junk
Mail"!
__________________________________________________________________
 
                  E-S3  Vol. 1, No. 9, Part Two
 
              based on the September 1992 issue of
             "Simulation in the Service of Society"
John McLeod, Technical Editor     Suzette McLeod, Managing Editor
          8484 La Jolla Shores Dr., La Jolla, CA 92037.
                   E-mail: mcleod@sdsc.bitnet
                                *
                   S3 is a special section of
                           SIMULATION
                   the monthly journal of the
                 SOCIETY for COMPUTER SIMULATION
             P.O.Box 17900, San Diego, CA 92177-7900
            Phone: (619) 277-3888 FAX: (619) 277-3930
                                *
[Copyright  Notice:  E-S3 is the electronically delivered version of
"Simulation in the Service of Society" which is a special section of
SIMULATION, a monthly technical journal of the  Society for Computer
Simulation International. It may be reproduced only for personal use
or for the use of students. In any case full credit must be given to
the original source of publication: SIMULATION  59:3, September 1992. 
    All rights  reserved, (c) 1992, Simulation Councils, Inc.]
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THE WAY IT PLAYED IN HAWAII
 
Recently we received the following E-mail communication
concerning S3 for May 1992 from a long-time friend and
experienced world modeler,  Dr. Richard W. Chadwick (Political
Science Department, University of Hawaii, Honolulu).
                          
                           *        *       
Dear John --
 
I just read the Szczerbicka and Karplus articles in your May 
issue.  You've done it again!  What a wonderful juxtaposition!  
Szczerbicka for all the dark warnings, reaffirms the marvels of 
the information revolution, while Karplus affirms an eight-fold 
path to catastrophe, offering hope only in the present infirmity 
of knowledge about each.
 
But to reflect on Szczerbicka's observations.  I felt that the
repeated reference to the military origins of personal computer
technology would eventually lead to a Luddite's attack on the
military; instead it dissipated into guilt by association with
references to killing games played with computers.  What is not
discussed is that centuries-old fairy tales and the most ancient
of Western Civilization's texts are replete with graphic accounts
of violence.  By what standard are we to compare the Nintendos of
today with the Beowulfs of old?  Or is my request for measurement
and comparative data to be dismissed along with all other
programs for research which are "amenable to technical
solutions"?
 
That the promise of the information society could be
dashed on the rocks of inadequate skills and access to data is
also not a threat peculiar to the computer age.  Masses were kept
in ignorance in the past by, for instance, not translating the
Bible from Latin to common languages, not teaching women to read
and write, not permitting access to the ballot box because of the
color of your skin.  Etc. etc. ad nauseam.  Gruesome is the
history of humanity's inhumanity.
 
Similarly, Szczerbicka loosely associates the artificiality of
the computer environment with feeling less alive, hence producing
excessive emotion and promoting death wishes.  I suppose the
artificiality of the human environment began first with the
invention of language, the taming of animals and of each other. 
Civilization in general, not computers in particular, has been
the source of such stress.  The Los Angeles riots had less to do
with computers and the information age, for instance, than with
the ethnic, class, caste and gender origins of conflict and
cooperation which have characterized civilization from time
immemorial.
 
Nevertheless, despite Szczerbicka's failure of historical
context, there are several important concerns to which she
points.  One is certainly the need to develop a new moral code
for the information age.  Like the evolution of rules of the
road, new norms against virus propagation, unauthorized
decompiling and information accessing will take time to develop.
Software engineering has no safety norms such as those, for
instance, of construction engineers.  Software breakdowns could
lead to large-scale death and destruction.  We do not yet have a
global consensus analogous to the laws governing ships at sea.
But we are learning and learning rapidly.
 
Related to an underdeveloped moral code, Szczerbicka points to
the elements of command and control in government, reminiscent of
Orwell's "1984" and Huxley's "Brave New World."  Anyone
acquainted with what has happened to the citizens of Singapore,
however, will see a very different picture.  There is probably no
other country on Earth that can match the Singaporean
government's computer-based tracking of individuals from birth to
death, its control over how much they spend for property and set
 
 
part2

aside for health care, etc.  Yet its people are overall creative,
happy and prosperous, with no particular desire to change most of
these policies.  I do not hold Singapore up for emulation as an
ideal, just as an antidote to untrammeled paranoia.
 
Another and perhaps more intractable problem is what I suspect
to be an increasingly strained relationship between the computer
literate, semi-literate and illiterate.  The literate have access
to guaranteed jobs, and operate at a level of self-confidence
that is, I suspect, considerably higher on average than those by
whom they are surrounded.  They are often the envy of those who
have no such mastery, some of whom would rather nurse their
hatred than attempt to acquire the skill, or to attempt and fail.
 
An example: there are hundreds of PCs on our campus, freely
available to all students and faculty, yet unless absolutely
required to, most will never bother even locating them, or attend
free seminars on their use.  Legion are they who throw away the
opportunities others cry for or will never know exist.  I suspect
that access to computers and information is indeed limited by
traditional ethnic, class, race, gender, and religious belief
systems, along with every other form of empowerment in all
civilizations, but that cutting across all these individual
attributes is yet another -- not access but motivation.  "Whatever
the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve" summarized
Napoleon Hill in his book, "Think and Grow Rich."  Not everyone
conceives and believes; they run into the "glass wall" of their
uncultivated imagination.
 
And so I come to my final point.  Szczerbicka ruminates
about the lack of purpose to the midwives of the information age.
The role models she provides seem to be limited to military, or
Dr. Frankenstein, or flawed liberators from human toil, givers of
directionless freedom with no reflective capacity.  I do not take
these role models seriously, for I see no empirical basis for
them, but ample to the contrary.
 
The military ARPANET, for
instance, was the midwife to Internet, permitting millions of
students, researchers and faculty to communicate worldwide,
uncensored, free except for the cost of learning how (financed as
a common resource by universities worldwide).  Space technology
is being transformed from military to communication, economic and
scientific exploration purposes as we speak (not that the
defense technologies are likely to fall by the wayside!).
 
Nuclear technology is at the heart of efforts to find a fix for
the tsetse fly problem in Africa.  An immortal tomato plant is
likely to reach the marketplace within the next five years
(thanks to the new-found ability to turn off its aging gene). The
average person is healthier, lives longer, and is better educated
and worldwise, and more plentiful, than ever before in recorded history,
and on a per capita basis is less likely to die a violent death.
 
bias.  I'd prefer to work on defining and solving problems rather
than resurrect the Ned Ludd approach.
                        
                           *        * 
 
[Interested readers may wish to refer to the October 1987 issue
of S3, which contained a discussion and excerpts from Dr.
Chadwick's paper on "The I Ching and Global Modeling."]
 
                       *        *       *
 
SIMULATION AND SOCIAL VALUES
 
Some time in the past Suzette and I (the Managing and Technical
Editors of this column, in case you hadn't noticed) were forced
to start an independent publication because there were those in
SCSI who objected to our publishing material that we considered to
have merit with respect to society in general -- including
simulationists -- but which was not strictly technical.
 
Space for this column in SIMULATION is therefore the result of
something of a compromise between that kind of thinking and
those of us who believe that simulationists, and others who
may read this journal, are important elements of society and
should therefore be concerned with ALL of its perceived values.          
 
Thus we offer the following review.
 
                           *        *                                                                  
 
Do it RIGHT!
 
Your Ed. has taken a lesson from Charles E. Watson's book
"Managing with Integrity: Insights from America's CEOs" and changed
his statement "Do it IF it's RIGHT!" to the above admonition.
 
The book (Greenwood Publishing Group, P.O. Box 5007, Westport, CT
06881, 800/225-5800), a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's
business club, Fortune Book Club, is a lesson in ethics without
calling it that.
 
The author, who is Professor of Management at Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio, spent five years interviewing and studying over 125
CEOs from America's largest and most respected companies to
examine the issue of character in business.  His primary finding,
contrary to Leo Durocher's remark that "Nice guys finish last,"
is rather that: Businesses can and do prosper when high ethical
and moral standards underlie executive decision making.
 
According to the publisher, "A wealth of practical examples and
anecdotes demonstrates that even today, corporate America's most
powerful figures tend to place what is ethical over what is
expedient, and adhere to a higher standard than is generally
assumed by the public.  By revealing the strategies these
leaders employ in the face of the myriad challenges to character
encountered in the day-to-day business world, the author provides
invaluable insights for executives, managers, supervisors,
professionals, and entrepreneurs confronted with their own
ethical dilemmas.  Readers will find 'Managing with Integrity` both
an unusually candid look at the dimensions of executive decision
making and an eminently practical guide to the development of a
workable moral philosophy for business."
 
The foregoing is supported in detail by the 376 pages of the
book, which indicate conclusively that persons and organizations that
aspire to serve worthwhile purposes are ultimately the most
profitable.
 
We found most interesting, many of them downright fascinating,
the hundreds of real-world examples in "Managing with Integrity."
Recommended reading!
 
                       *        *        *
 
"IT IS, AFTER ALL, SIMPLY A MATTER OF ETHICS"
 
With the foregoing words John Brooks Slaughter, President of
Occidental College, closed his presentation at the January 1992
SCSI conference in Newport Beach, California. 
 
Anyone who read the complete article in the "Simulation in the
Service of Society" section of SIMULATION for April could have
foreseen that "something had to give" in Los Angeles, although
the extent of the fury and needless loss of life and property
could not be imagined.
 
Shocked by the events, and reflecting on Dr. Slaughter's words, I
at first considered republishing his section on "The Christopher
Commission," but changed my mind when I realized that to do so
might be more inflammatory than enlightening -- now is a time for
cooling off rather than reflecting on past injustices.  Therefore
I will now only repeat some of John's constructive thoughts.
 
                                *
 
        I believe sincerely that the answers to these questions
are to be found only in the quality of education received by our
young people.
 
	Michael Josephson [of the Josephson Institute of Ethics]
brought this home to us at Occidental very clearly when he
visited with us last year. He discussed the fact that so many of
our youth come to school with serious problems that affect
learning and their character. Too many of them are without good
models and instead have followed a pattern that has taught them
to lie, to cheat and to take short-cuts.
 
	I think about this reality when I think about the
responsibilities of educators. There are many things required of
educators and education today. Certainly we need to insure that
our students are well versed in the fundamentals of literacy and
numeracy and, hopefully, are infused with the joy of a lifetime
of learning. We need to help them make the connections between
the arts, the humanities and the sciences. They need to study
both Milton and molecules, both Carlyle and chemistry, both Bach
and botany, both Michelangelo and microcomputers. They need to
understand the insight of the great African-American scientist,
Percy Lavon Julian, who said of the sciences and the humanities,
"the goal of both is to enrich the good life of man."
 
   	 Twenty-five years ago Martin Luther King Jr., whose life
we celebrate at this time of year, eloquently described this need
for balance when he cautioned: "Our scientific power has outrun
our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided
men . . .  Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to
reestablish the spiritual ends of our lives in personal character
and social justice."
 
         In keeping with this challenge, all of us must recognize
that if we are to see the enormous advance in knowledge that is
occurring used for the betterment of humankind rather than to its
detriment, we must educate people who understand the social,
ethical and philosophical consequences of their work, and who
have been taught manners as well as mathematics, compassion as
well as composition, accountability as well as the principles of
accounting and tolerance as well as topology. We need individuals
who believe it is important to be not just "computer friendly"
but also "people friendly".
 
	That is the task before us. For technology to assist us
in making our lives safer, more comfortable and healthier we must
begin now. It is, after all, simply a matter of ethics.
                    
 
PROGRESS
 
Limits to Growth, the Donella and Dennis Meadows book based on
the model "World 2," published 20 years ago, set off a spate of
"world" models.  But as modellers strove to improve their models
with more and better data, they began to run into a common
problem: Data needed to take into account the dynamics of foreign
countries were often considered proprietary by those countries.
 
Then Dr. Takeshi Utsumi, knowing of my interest in the use of
models to promote understanding of problems great and small,
suggested that individual national models, which many countries
were developing independently, could be connected only by their
outputs and inputs to form a global model.  In this way
participating countries would not have to divulge any sensitive
internal information.
 
A good idea -- ahead of its time.  The communications
infrastructure would not at that time support such a development.
Perhaps it still will not, but "Tak" Utsumi has been, and is
still, working on it, and is making tangible progress.
 
We cannot here enumerate the obstacles Tak has overcome, nor yet
those still hindering faster progress.  But I must point out an
interim divergence of interests:  Tak's interest in developing
the infrastructure is primarily to support "distance education,"
an extension of the system used in Australia to teach
children in the Outback.  But instead of using "wireless"
Tak is using satellite and all other currently available
communication technology to develop ways to present educational
material interactively to children and teachers in the most
remote places on the globe.  And he has held live demonstrations
of his Global Lecture Hall to mark his considerable progress.
 
The next, "Global Education in the 21st Century: Design and
Delivery"  is scheduled to be held in connection with the Annual
Conference of the International Council for Educational Media,
October 12 and 13, 1992, at the University of Central Florida,
Orlando.  [Contact Dr. Takeshi Utsumi, President, Global
University in the U.S.A. (GLOSAS/USA), 43-23 Colden Street,
Flushing, NY 11355-3998, USA, Phone (718) 939-0928, Internet
utsumi@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu] for further information.]
 
A noble undertaking, to be sure.  Tak has devoted 20 years and a
considerable amount of his personal finances to it.  But it's not
simulation.  So why do I write about it here?  Because when the
infrastructure required to support Tak's dream is in place
somebody, someplace, will use it to develop that Global Model
that I want to see!
 
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