Volume 2. No 4 Information Technology News of the University of California, Davis Summer 1994

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Contracts and Grants

AT&T: IT staff worked with faculty members Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith and Kathy Dixon on the submission of a proposal to AT&T that resulted in a grant of approximately $200,000 worth of equipment for a student lab in the new Social Sciences building.

Cal Trans: IT submitted a proposal for a $400,000 contract which was funded by Cal Trans. Several IT staff members are working on the contract which includes a close collaboration with a broad based community constituency to create the Davis Community Network (DCN). Sun has donated a Sparcstation to support the Davis Freenet. This machine is up and running. Qualcomm has agreed to extend their lowest prince for Eudora to the first 100 Davis users and Tetherless Access, Ltd. has offered to donate several wireless T-1 devices to support mobile computing requirements. Finally, this consortium, with the very active involvement of members of the IT staff has submitted several large grant proposals to the NSF and the Department of Commerce for the support of DCN applications.

IBM: IT staff worked with members of the Department of Art and Nematoloty to obtain an equipment grant of $32,000 to digitize the images stored in these departments' slide collections and to retrieve them by image content, e.g., shape, texture, density. The May 30, 1994 issue of "InfoWorld" mentions this very successful project.

Others: IT worked in collaboration with faculty members from several departments on the preparation of grant proposals. We are awaiting the results which should be forthcoming this summer.