short NOTE: what we committed to at MADE in DC '94
leifer@sunrise.stanford.edu (Larry Leifer)
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 23:02:23 -0800
To: Kevin Lyons <klyons@cme.nist.gov>, Pradeep Khosla <pkk@arpa.mil>,
Peter F. Brown <brown@cme.nist.gov>, Mike McGrath <mcgrath@ARPA.MIL>
From: leifer@sunrise.stanford.edu (Larry Leifer)
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Subject: short NOTE: what we committed to at MADE in DC '94
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Pradeep:
congratulations on your program management appointment. you've taken on a
solid challenge at a challenging time. i sincerely hope that the MADE
"community" can make its light shine. however impressive the demos and
presentations were to insiders, i fully endorse the need to communicate to
others, to the best of our ability, just what has been accomplished and the
magnitude of the vision to be realized.
i would like to briefly recount what i thought happened thursday afternoon.
0. Tzero was 3:30pm, Thursday, February 10th (and counting)
1. i believe that the community itself proposed and accepted
a challenge to design and manufacture an electromechanical
assembly equivalent to the IRFPA brassboard. the goal is to
demonstrate, by example, the collaborative power of
the MADE community (people, tools and methods). the
design-for-manufacture challenge is expected to have
"face validity" and relevance to other ARPA programs.
i saw/heard a high degree of buy-in and a healthy dose
of skepticism, just about right for moving vigorously
ahead.
2. the task is to be completed within the next 6 months.
3. implementation will probably occur in three stages:
1. create a virtual enterprise out of the "community"
(assume 2 months)
2. implement a design, build and test cycle
(assume 2 months)
3. fully document and present the process and the content
of this testbed experience (the 1992 PACT experiment
is a model event)
(assume 2 months)
4. Larry Leifer and Rich Riesenfeld agreed to "coach"
the endeavor with Stanford serving as the integration
node.
5. care will be taken to engage (or at least invite engagement)
by all members of the MADE program (phase I and II)
6. the MADEFAST experiment (coined name until a better one
comes along) may include people, technology and institutions
outside MADE to the extent needed (but not expressly
encouraged)
7. by copy of this msg i am asking charles petrie to take
charge of establishing and maintaining the MADEFAST WWW
homepage at CDR (of course, this could change ....)
8. OUR ASAP INFORMATION NEEDS INCLUDE (from ARPA et al):
1. email addresses for all MADE PIs and/or project staff
(some of what i have on the photocopy is not readable)
2. access to all possible IRFPA data (i'm assuming an IRFPA
re-design scenario rather than a "from scratch" scenario,
this is both more realistic and likely to achieve stronger
face validity).
3. URLs for all MADE projects, MADE @ ARPA and MADE @ NIST,
to the extent that these things exist, and/or as soon
as they come on-line (I'm assuming that NIST and ARPA
people are part of the MADEFAST TEAM)
ALL:
edits, corrections, extensions solicited,
that was a rousing close to the meeting,
we've got a chance,
larry
PS: corrections and extentions to the email distribution list
will be particularly helpful