tlug: REMINDER - KPCA 10/22/97

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October MEETING: Oct. 22rd, 1997
                Check in at 6:45, speaker starts about 7:15
                Club KARMA, 5 min south of JR Osaka

SPEAKER:        Gerhard Fasol, President and founder of Eurotechnology Japan KK
TOPIC:          "The Blue Laser Diode: Towards a New Japanese R&D Paradigm"

MEETING FEE:    1000 yen
                Cheap refreshments available.

The blue laser diode will be a crucial component for the next generation of
DVD, optical storage media, as well as a whole range of other applications.
Mr. Gerhard Fasol's talk will discuss the background to these discoveries,
and the implications it has for computing professionals. Mr. Fasol's talk
will also discuss trends in the Japanese R&D world. Trends such as how the
Japanese govts greatly increased public R&D expenditures will affect
Japan's R&D future course.  Advance information on the topic of this talk
can be found at: http://www.eurotechnology.co.jp/blueledslides.html

Don't miss it.

DONATION REQUEST: A request of used/new Macintosh computer equipment for
the French School of Kansai.  The donation request last month provided a
number of computers and parts.  More are needed, especially SCSI HD's of
any size.

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RESPONSE PLEASE! FORMmd

__  I can probably attend on Wednesday, Oct. 22 (Blue Laser Diode)
__  Oops, I'm busy on the 22nd. Please keep me informed of future events.
__  I can probably attend on Wednesday, Nov. 19 (Outsourcing software to India)
__  I can probably attend on Wednesday, Dec. 17 (Artificial Intelligence)
__  I can probably attend on Wednesday, Jan. 21

__  Yes!  I am interested in speaking at a KPCA meeting.
        My proposed topic:


Next TLUG meeting is Saturday Dec. 13, 1997  (possibly Nov. 13?)
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