Volume 4, Number 2    May/June 1996

Moving Forward

Wanted: New Inventions for Technology 2006

If your company, university, or research laboratory has developed a novel, commercially significant new technology or product (especially in the field of telemedicine), we invite you to nominate it for presentation at Technology 2006-America's premier technology showcase. Sponsored by NASA, NASA Tech Briefs, and the Technology Utilization Foundation, Technology 2006 will bring together thousands of leaders from the engineering and scientific communities for three days-Oct. 29-31-in the Anaheim, Calif., Convention Center. As the "technology vanguard," they have the resources and power to turn innovation ideas into profitable products.

To nominate a technology or product, send a letter (two pages maximum) describing its novel features, major benefits, and applications for the target audience: design engineers and managers, R&D directors, and corporate executives in technology-driven industries, including telemedicine, electronics, computing, transportation, aerospace/defense, industrial equipment, manufacturing, bio/medicine, power and energy, and agriculture. If chosen for presentation, your technology/product will receive nationwide publicity and could be eligible for special awards and prizes.

Submit you nomination(s) by May 24, 1996, to: George De Feis, Technology Utilization Foundation, 317 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017; fax 212/986-7864. Questions? Call George De Feis at 202/490-3999.

THE NASA TECHNOLOGY CD-ROM

The NASA Technology CD-ROM features searchable databases and computer programs representing the best of NASA technology over the last 20 years. It features abstracts to 800+ previously unpublished NASA software programs with technical reports and source code listings and millions of lines of FORTRAN, C, Basic and Pascal code in: expert systems, CAD/CAM, aerospace analysis, robotics, materials analysis, and more. There are abstracts to more than 90,000 NASA technical reports containing engineering solutions and new product ideas from the nation's greatest technical minds as well as more than 2800 patented technologies from the last 20 years. Below are a few engineering and scientific software programs included: INVISID - flow solver and streamline/pressure graphical display CARMS - Markov reliability analysis with spreadsheet/graphical interface STARS - viewing constellations and other objects in the nighttime sky TRACK - Earth orbiting satellite tracking display QField 2D Finite Element Analysis Program- for heat/stress/electromagnetic COSMIC software catalog As a special bonus, CLIPS expert system with source code and documentation. In addition, the Patent Office is making all US patent abstracts since the mid-1970's available electronically. To help you benefit from this wealth of knowledge, this unique CD-ROM also has: ManClass hypertext searchable version of the "Patent Office Manual of Classification"; IPNS Archive which has news stories from the "Internet Patent News Service"; and a hypertext "Manual of Patent Examining Procedure." This CD-ROM runs on any Windows platform. To order a CD-ROM for $195, contact JB DATA, 317 Madison Ave;, Suite 921, New York, NY 10017 or fax: 212/986-7864 or E-mail pp000531@interramp.com