acknowledged Re: MADEFAST

leifer@sunrise.stanford.edu (Larry Leifer)

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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 94 09:07:02 PST
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To: Eswaran.Subrahmanian@cs.cmu.edu
From: leifer@sunrise.stanford.edu (Larry Leifer)
Subject: acknowledged   Re: MADEFAST
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Sub,
        thanks for input,
        we have key planning mtg today,
        you will get follow up detail soon,
larry
        and, we can talk about this face-to-face at EXPE

At 11:15 AM 3.16.94 -0500, Eswaran.Subrahmanian@cs.cmu.edu wrote:
>Dear Larry, 
>
>We have been looking through the mail from the MADEFAST project and 
>found it very interesting. We think that some of the objectives of 
>MADEFAST coincide with that of ACORN (which you are very well aware of). 
> We would be very interested in being involved in the process to 
>understand the difficulties of distributed design. 
>
>At the present time we have very few tools that are mature enough to be 
>available as services in MADEFAST (MD*, ALCOA SLA).  We think that our 
>main contribution can be to use this opportunity to understand the 
>requirements for tools to be available as services on the network. 
>Based on the experience of the tools used in MADEFAST, we can document 
>the  scope and requirements for the services to be on the net and their 
>use.  Further, this would provide a basis for defining the reference 
>architecture for building collaborative product design environments over 
>the inter-net.  
>
>We would be interested in tracking, analyzing and observing the design 
>process in MADEFAST. Also we hope to gather data (through surveys and 
>interviews) about the design and implementation of MADFAST as opposed to 
>the design of the product (which MADEFAST will produce).  
>
>As most of the people in the group in MADEFAST will be involved in the 
>design of the product and making their tools available, we would like to 
>help you in conducting the study of doing collaborative design. 
>
>
>Cheers 
>Sub, Susan and Mike 
>-- 
>Eswaran Subrahmanian, n-dim Group, EDRC, CMU, 5000 Forbes Ave, PGH, PA 15213 
>Email: sub+@cs.cmu.edu / Phone: +1 412 268 5221 / Fax: +1 412 268 5229 
> 
>-- 
>Eswaran Subrahmanian, n-dim Group, EDRC, CMU, 5000 Forbes Ave, PGH, PA 15213 
>Email: sub+@cs.cmu.edu / Phone: +1 412 268 5221 / Fax: +1 412 268 5229 
>