> Summary of Labnetwork Meeting
>
>The Labnetwork meeting took place on 12/10/95 in Washington DC. About 20 people
>attended. The agenda of the actual meeting resembled closely the planned agenda
>as published on the Web at http://radon.eecs.berkeley.edu/labnetwork. This page
>can also be accessed through the Semiconductor Subway. Abstracts of the planned
>presentations, as well as a list of the participants can also be found on that
>web location. At the conclusion of the meeting the following action items were
>discussed, and these are my conclusions:
>
> On the issue of Outside Representation:
>
> 1. The proposed "statement of purpose", as seen on the web page was approved
> in principle. Everyone involved has been invited to suggest improvements
> on the language until December 25, 1995. At the end of this message I
> submit a slightly modified version and I ask for your comments. Whatever I
> have on Dec 25 will serve as our statement of purpose. This statement may
> be amended at our next meeting.
> 2. These minutes will be published on the web page (again, the participants
> are invited to suggest changes or corrections until December 25.)
> 3. Shortly after Dec 25 the existence of the Web page and the "University
> Microfabrication Laboratory Network" (LabNetwork for short) will be
> publicized by sending letters to key figures at NSF, ARPA, SRC, SIA, other
> organizations and individual companies.
> 4. At this point we have no plans of inviting non-University participants to
> the Labnetwork meetings. We do plan on informing key agencies about our
> activities. It is also in our interest to send representatives to key
> meetings and workshops and to keep the rest of the LabNetwork community
> informed.
>
> On the issue of Infrastructure Management:
>
> 5. The participants agreed that the LabNetwork meetings should continue on a
> periodic basis. They also agreed that an important function of these
> meeting is to coordinate our operations and to teach each other how to run
> our facilities at top efficiency. In this spirit, two specific issues were
> targeted as subjects for discussion in the next meeting, and a small group
> of people was assembled in order to write a short summary (1-2 pages) of
> each issue, and organize its discussion. These two issues are:
> 1. Software Unification (B. Murray, D. Boning, K. Voros)
> 2. Wafer Size Conversion (C. Sodini, R. Pearson, O. Vladimirsky)
> 6. Other issues will be placed on the agenda as necessary.
> 7. A new meeting facilitator will be appointed shortly. (Volunteers are
> welcome).
> 8. Although the exact agenda and timing of the next LabNetwork meeting are
> not yet decided, the proper timing of the next meeting is consistent with
> the next VLSI technology symposium in the early summer of 1995.
>
> Costas J. Spanos
> Faculty Director,
> Berkeley Microfabrication Laboratory
>
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> Mission Statement of the University Microfabrication Laboratory Network
> (Draft written by R. Reif, edited by C. Spanos)
>
>The Academic Microfabrication Facilities are a unique national resource that is
>continuously advancing the state of the art in a range of competitive
>technologies. We intent to organize the community of academic microfabrication
>facilities and users, in order to amortize our complementary capabilities, and
>be more effective in carrying out our role in advanced technology education and
>pre-competitive research. This organization will, for example:
>
> 1. Provide a forum to exchange know-how on facilities management, coordinate
> infrastructure investments for maximum efficiency, and share useful
> information of general nature.
> 2. Articulate the role of academic microfabrication facilities and academic
> microelectronics research, its usefulness to our industry and society at
> large, and take a proactive position explaining our point of view.
> 3. Coordinate and prepare responses to new pre-competitive opportunities with
> the objective of addressing what is common to all of us.
> 4. Help generate new opportunities to carry out our educational mission.
> 5. Be a continuing organization that identifies and addresses the primary
> issues of the day, formulates straw man positions, and recognizes that
> these primary issues change with time.
>
>Please email your comments to spanos@eecs.berkeley.edu by December 25, 1995.
>
>
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