From: rdshydur@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9404152030.AA13166@bolognese.MIT.EDU>
To: sem095@MIT.EDU
Subject: crit of previous meeting, this tuesday optional ...
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 16:30:51 EDT


to:	all

re:	tuesday's meeting

i for one was feeling pretty critical about the
harvard e-club's "informational meeting" we
visited this past week, and i apologise as much
as i am responsible for not helping mr. korngold
present what we'd previously discussed ... and
i have not changed my take on the evening since.

i'm sorry there was no real new information for
those of us in the seminar, that there were no brief
"real" practice presentations, and that everyone,
including one disgruntled harvard e-club officer
especially, was not introduced at all (he's the
fellow who left abruptly).

also, i am no fan of bill gates, and couldn't believe
he was being held up so frequently as a role model.

but this has only made me feel significantly better
about the attitudes of so many mit people who have
gone on to develop very profitable enterprises while
envisioning simply different outcomes in addition
to great monetary rewards.  (discussion welcome)

however, i did enjoy meeting several new people after,
and was pleased that we brought along one of
professor bob rines' students, who had helped at
our e-club meeting earlier, and who is the fellow
applying for a patent as part of his course work.

i recommend that before the term is over, if any
are able to sit in on just one of rines lectures in
37-212 on monday nights from 7-9+pm, they should;
and should introduce themselves to bob as well.

rines, as i've mentioned, graduated from mit in c. 42,
and when mit didn't go for his idea of establishing
a law school on campus concentrating on patent law and
intellectual property, he went and founded the 
franklin-pierce law center in concord, new hampshire.

his father did a lot of doc edgerton's patent work.

and by-the-way, i had the center for advanced engineering
study video-tape 11 of rines' lectures two spring terms
back, and i'm just now about to pick up where i left off
editing them down to a very tight 3 hour tutorial.

if anyone is interested in looking at these tapes when
i look at them again, just let me know.  i'll be doing the
work in caes beginning in a couple of weeks and undoubtedly
into the summer.

	- r
.