Date: 2003/03/23 00:03
From: Tosiyasu L.Kunii <tosi@kunii.com>
To: Carl Vilbrandt <carl@ggpl.org>
Dear Professor Vilbrandt,
As of April 1, 2003 my full time affiliation is ITI of KIT as listed below.
How is Dali 2003? Is it cancelled? Anyway, it seems U Aizu situations are getting quite down. It is quite easy to make things down, and hence I have been appreciating your and your family's never bending noble mind and efforts.
Regards,
Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Dr.Sc., Fellow of IEEE
Professor and Director
IT Institute
Kanazawa Institute of Technology
1-15-13 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 150-0001 Japan
Phone +81-3-5410-5280
FAX +81-3-5410-3056
e-mail: tosi@kunii.com
Home Page: http://www.kunii.com/
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 02:25:51 +0900
Carl Vilbrandt <carl@ggpl.org> wrote:
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> Impact of the patent trend / on the other side so to speak .
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> The trend you speak of is also going the wrong way not only for
> educational enities, but also for large corporations who out of the need
> to be globaly competive must become educational institutions and spend
> large sums of finical resources on the education of their workers
> because of the rate of change of accelerating evloutionary returns of
> digital technologies. Large corporations also lead universities in
> R&D. The R&D capabilites of all but a few universities in the states
> fall far below the capabilties of large corporations. Large
> corporations actually have replace or replicate the fuctions of
> univerisites. They have created the problem by haveing interlocking
> patent agreements that has lock out universities so they don't have a
> source of human resources aviable to them. Answer try to take over the
> facilities, faculity and students of universities and force them to work
> under there IP to be able to get an education.
>
> In the US I had large companies both US and Japanese threating not to
> hire any students coming from our comunity collage if we don't train
> them specifically to work on their machines. They offered each one
> million if we did. However the public pays 20 million a year. Most of
> the teachers were looking at the money and suggested we take it and do
> what we want anyway..... It was sad. The conflict between the needs of
> education and training people in skills that means they can only find
> work in a very large company. BTW is was HP and Sony..... My position
> against this move cost me work at the collage. Now I am faced with the
> same here.
>
> I just had two of my graduate student taken from my by Dr Wei who has
> recive grants of a million dollars a year for five years and could offer
> them scholarships and living stypends. However the best programer whos
> skills are not well knowen refused to go with Dr. Wei. Dr. Wei is in
> fact a very poor manager and does not have the capability to compete in
> the medical field against very large companies or he would be working
> for them. However the current results are very chilling the lab has been
> change into over 50 very small cubes with high walls. Not for students,
> but for programers, not for researchers but project managers.....
>
> I believe the current trend of merging business, governmental and
> educational organizations functions will continue at a faster rate as
> the accelerating returns of digital evolution continues and businesses
> are transform into digital based service structures that must have
> rationale other than profit for services to survive. Governmental
> educational and business entities to survive global competition must
> incorporate both global openness, transparent transactions (the eyes of
> the many) and accountability, because of the freedom of information
> stemming for the new digital based informational structures internet
> require this. The proposed Organis digital based business structures
> and Greater Good Public Licenses agreement incorporate all three of
> these requirements and is one of the solutions for competing in the
> global market place.
>
> Japan is following the US because it feels it has little
> choice...because of the WTO and being locked out of high technology.....
> however at the same time they have showen support for free source
> projects. If we can create a good understand able free choice plan and
> show present them with a free choice it could make a difference.
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