<title>John Howard at MERC</title>
<h1>MERC</h1>
John Howard inherited leadership of CMU's Andrew project.
He now works for Mistubishi Electric, who are setting up a new
research center in Cambridge.
<p>
I gave the regular W3 talk to a group of interested people,
including Les Belady, the Chairman and Director of the new lab.
(The president is Tohei Nitta).
<p>
Afterward, I discussed future directions for W3 with
John. John would like to see MERC start its information systems
off in the right direction.
Theer was a question of what contribution MERC could make
which would make it officially acceptable for them to
use W3 code from CERN and others.
MERC's requirements, just like CERN's, are for Mac and X browers,
and a good Provider of Information tool.
<p>
John used the Andrew system himself still (and it looked good
on a good colour screen). We discussed the steps necessary to
make an ez-based version of W3.
Basically, the text object would have to be slightly subclassed,
and a subclass of the link object could be made to include
the W3 library.
<p>
Andrew funding from IBM has stopped, though the project will be kept
alive at a lower level.
<h2>By the way</h2>
John pointed out an(other) article summarizing internet
resources,
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Additions/corrections/comments welcome.  This document is available via
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