STT group resources
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Boston University:
 (Ulrich Heintz, Meenakshi Narain)
   - 2 engineers (names??) will become available in fall;
   - low level work possible without money??
   - any university money (start-up funds) available?
   
Columbia University:
 (Hal Evans)
   - Nevis engineers (Sippach?, Gara? others?) possibly interested?
   - could work for STT at some level without additional funds?
   - Hal Evans start-up funds?
   
Stony Brook: 
 (John Hobbs)
   - John Hobbs has some funds that he can spend on STT (45k over 2 years?)
      (startup funds?)
   - will have electronics engineer (Vito?) starting Jan. 1999,
      (for board lay-out, not for design work) 
   - will hire postdoc to work full-time on STT 
   
FSU:
 (Horst Wahl, + some of (Harrison Prosper, Susan Blessing))
   - Simon Foo (elect.engineering fac.member) and student have implemented     
      clustering algorithm in FPGA Altera Flex 10k; Simon Foo intersted in
      continuing to work on this; (but DOE "not willing to fund non-physics
      faculty members"?)
   - could find new electronics student to work on STT -- funding source unclear
   - engineers from NHMFL (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)
      are interested in learning about fast data acquisition and triggering, but
      have no experience in this;
      are presently learning VHDL, 
      and trying to understand AHDL code for VRB receiver logic of Mark Bowden;
   - have submitted Letter of Intent and will sumbit proposal to FSU Research 
      Foundation for funding to establish infrastructure for fast electronics
      development.  
   - some students already working on various STT related studies;
      Dan Karmgard interested in learning VHDL;
      Brett Bolen learning RESQ;
      Brian Connolly doing x_vertex studies with Meena   
   - will hire a postdoc to work exclusively on STT   
      
"new" institutions:
   Saclay: willing to provide two electronics engineers, plus physicists 
          necessary for liaison, to help with STT design;
	  favorite contribution would be FPGA programming; other possibility
	  would be fiber input (they already did this for the FIC);
	  Saclay does not want to take responsibility for STT or part of it,
	  as visibility of this should be kept low.
	  funds available: depends on extent of project
   NIKHEF: have cash "in hand" (200k$ ??)
          not clear what role they want to play
	  
Questions:
 * how much money needed when to get engineering effort started?
 * possibilty for other funding sources:
     university forward funding?