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EDUCOM'89:  UPCOMING HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE AND EXHIBIT

For more information on EDUCOM and registration for the show, contact
EDUCOM directly at 609/520-3960 or email CONF89@EDUCOM.

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EDUCOM is a nonprofit consortium of 590 colleges and universities
concerned with computing and communications issues.  Its annual
conference is generally acknowledged as the biggest and best general
meeting on information technology policy, trends and applications in
higher education.

This year, over 3000 representatives of higher education, industry
and government will gather at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
campus, October 16-19 for this Conference.  The EDUCOM Conference
theme will be "Lessons From the Past, Strategies for the Future," in
honor of EDUCOM's 25th anniversary.

Sun Microsystems will sponsor a 600 sq. foot booth with the theme
"Great Ideas Should Be Shared." Sun employees from
Education Marketing, Product Marketing, CSD, and the Corporate Trade
Show group will attend the show.

The Sun booth will be designed to simulate a campus environment with 8
stations representing areas of study at a university.  In addition to
the appropriate Sun, university and third party products (see list
below), each academic discipline will be highlighted by a 4'x4' photo
and testimonial from a premiere school in that area.


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Features of the Conference include:

* John Akers, IBM Chairman and CEO: "Two Visions and the Challenge for 
	Higher Education"
* "Higher Education: 2014," University Presidents Roundtable 
        (Nat'l Technological University, University of Michigan, Reed College,
	Vanderbilt University)
* "Putting the Future Together," Corporate Executives Roundtable 
	(Sony, Northern Telecom, Cray)

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Special Sun events include:

At the Conference:
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Bill Joy, Vice President, Research and Development, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
	October 18 from 3:45 - 5 p.m.  in the Chrysler Auditiorium
	of the College of Engineering.

Title:  Progress in the Protection of Intellectual Property 

Abstract:  The advancement of technology in academia and industry
largely depends on sharing ideas.  What information can reasonably be
protected from use by others?  What ideas are public domain?  This
session will discuss intellectual property protection with particular
emphasis on windows and graphical user interface "look and feel"
issues.

In the Sun booth:
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Sun Microsystems, Inc., Tuesday, October 17, 2-3 p.m.
Sun Network Management products

 ***1 TIME ONLY*** 

SPECIAL LIVE NETWORKING DEMO SESSION
featuring Sun Product Managers

SUN ADVANCED NETWORKING SESSION to follow 
at the Huron Room, Campus Inn, 3:30p.m.

Write up/description of special Networking sessions is included
at the end of this memo.

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The following vendors and Sun products will be featured in our booth,
by academic discipline area:

Computer Science:
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Sun C++ 
Sun OpenWindows Application Environment
Sun OpenWindow's Developer's GUIDE

Mathematics:
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Wolfram Research Inc. (Mathematica)
Mathworks, Inc. (MATLAB)

Liberal Arts:
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Sun Write/Paint/Draw
Sun Open DeskSet
Sun OpenWindows Application Environment
Sun OpenWindow's Developer's GUIDE
WORDPERFECT
Frame Technology Corp. (FrameMaker 2.0)
Interleaf Technical Publishing Software
Personal Bibliographic Software (Pro-Cite)

Business:
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The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO Professional/SCO FoxBASE+)
FAME Software Corp. 
SAS Institute 

Interactive Education:
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Sun Write/Paint/Draw
Sun Open DeskSet
FAXTOOLS
Young Minds, Inc. (GNU Software Library on CD-ROM)
Cornell University (FABULOUS- Food and Beverage Undergraduate
        Learning on a UNIX System)

Physical Sciences:
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TAAC
Scientific Computing Associates (CLAM)
Unidata/U Michigan Real Time Weather Data Capture, Analysis, Display

Engineering:
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Valid Logic Systems, Inc. (Validation Tools)
DAZIX
Purdue University (Interactive Student CADD Project)

Multimedia:
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Sun Network Management products
Hyperion Project 
SunVideo 

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