Comments from ARPA/AFML

I want to take a moment to give you a few reflections from the sponsoring agency. The Advanced Research Projects Agency has been set up to take chances on high risk R and 0. I have a warm spot in my heart for this particular program because it\u27s the first one that I was fortunate enough to pull together on an integrated basis. However, I have to admit that when it was first suggested by Mike Buckley that I should put a few chips in NOE, I felt kind of blah about it. I felt it was not a risky area, that it was not the colorful type of thing that ARPA should be getting into. The more I ~rd about it, however, the more I realized the importance of this area and that a good investment in some people that Don had pulled together would pay off handsomely. I want to compliment Don and the excellent team he has gotten together. I am particularly excited tonight to have the atteniton of people like Secretary Brownman who, I can appreciate, understands technology and understands that it needs diffusing out into the services. The program is still risky unless we can pull that off. Let\u27s hope that getting the attention of people like Secretary Brownman and others will aid in a technology transfer so that new developments will not be lost for another decade or two, or until someone rediscovers it

Predicting Crystal Structures with Data Mining of Quantum Calculations

Predicting and characterizing the crystal structure of materials is a key problem in materials research and development. It is typically addressed with highly accurate quantum mechanical computations on a small set of candidate structures, or with empirical rules that have been extracted from a large amount of experimental information, but have limited predictive power. In this letter, we transfer the concept of heuristic rule extraction to a large library of ab-initio calculated information, and demonstrate that this can be developed into a tool for crystal structure prediction.Comment: 4 pages, 3 pic

Arthur Van Reuth Collection

Arthur Van Reuth (1912-2009) graduated from the University of Maryland in 1934 with a B.S. in Engineering. At Maryland, Van Reuth was a member of the Engineering Society, Civil Club, Episcopal Club, Rossbourg Club, and the Sigma Phi Sigma fraternity. This collection consists of two black and white photos -- one of the November 25, 1934 Homecoming football game crowd with cheerleaders Charlotte Hood, Helen Wollman, and June Barnesley, and one of Sigma Phi Sigma fraternity brothers in 1934. Also included is a black and gold Maryland pennant featuring the university seal and four streamers

Comments from ARPA/AFML

I want to take a moment to give you a few reflections from the sponsoring agency. The Advanced Research Projects Agency has been set up to take chances on high risk R and 0. I have a warm spot in my heart for this particular program because it's the first one that I was fortunate enough to pull together on an integrated basis. However, I have to admit that when it was first suggested by Mike Buckley that I should put a few chips in NOE, I felt kind of blah about it. I felt it was not a risky area, that it was not the colorful type of thing that ARPA should be getting into. The more I ~rd about it, however, the more I realized the importance of this area and that a good investment in some people that Don had pulled together would pay off handsomely. I want to compliment Don and the excellent team he has gotten together. I am particularly excited tonight to have the atteniton of people like Secretary Brownman who, I can appreciate, understands technology and understands that it needs diffusing out into the services. The program is still risky unless we can pull that off. Let's hope that getting the attention of people like Secretary Brownman and others will aid in a technology transfer so that new developments will not be lost for another decade or two, or until someone rediscovers it.</p

The Electronic Specific Heat of Certain Vanadium Alloys

171 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1964.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD

Comments from ARPA/AFML

I want to take a moment to give you a few reflections from the sponsoring agency. The Advanced Research Projects Agency has been set up to take chances on high risk R and 0. I have a warm spot in my heart for this particular program because it's the first one that I was fortunate enough to pull together on an integrated basis. However, I have to admit that when it was first suggested by Mike Buckley that I should put a few chips in NOE, I felt kind of blah about it. I felt it was not a risky area, that it was not the colorful type of thing that ARPA should be getting into. The more I ~rd about it, however, the more I realized the importance of this area and that a good investment in some people that Don had pulled together would pay off handsomely. I want to compliment Don and the excellent team he has gotten together. I am particularly excited tonight to have the atteniton of people like Secretary Brownman who, I can appreciate, understands technology and understands that it needs diffusing out into the services. The program is still risky unless we can pull that off. Let's hope that getting the attention of people like Secretary Brownman and others will aid in a technology transfer so that new developments will not be lost for another decade or two, or until someone rediscovers it.</p

Comments from ARPA / AFML

I thought it would be appropriate to make a few comments tonight since this week is the third anniversary of this program. I was pretty new with ARPA and these two guys by the name of Don Thompson and this guy he had gotten to, Hike Buckley from the Air Force Materials Laboratory, came in with blazing six guns. They painted such a picture that I was putty in their hands. So we started this program. I went out on thin ice for it with a pretty sizeable sum of money. I have found that 1t has been worth it over these three years. There have been, however, over these three years so~ ambivalent feelings on my part. How do you measure success? What am I going to say to myself 10-20 years from now; was this program successful or not? I see some signs of success, but I wonder if these successes would have occurred had not ARPA put an investment into the area. I like to feel they wouldn't have been accomplished, but it remains for posterity to show that. Ill! have been fairly successful in getting things implemented into certain services. We have asked Mr. Willoughby to come here tonight from the Navy because the Navy has not been the most successful of the three services. They're not coming in first or second in my book as far as NDE is concerned, but I think when you hear Mr. Willoughby, you're going to hear that Mr. Willoughby has some interesting thoughts on this and I'm convinced if anyone can have an effect, he has a good shot at it.</p