Maria Zemankova has been asked to serve for a year as deputy division director (DDD) for NSF/CISE's Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS), under Y.T. Chen. Her Database and Expert Systems (DBES) program will be managed by Dr. Barbara Blaustein , 703-306-1926, 703-306-0599 Fax. [, IRLIST, 11/14/95.]

David Lloyd-Jones has just taken over as moderator of sci.econ.research, which he intends to shape into a center of excellence on the net. He's looking for good empirical reports (rather than "methodological stuff"). "Findings are product; methodology is overhead." Write to to participate. [, 11/8/95.] (David built the first 400 coin laundries in Japan, between 1972 and 1984. Then he went into manufacturing aftermarket auto brake parts, but the timing was wrong -- too much competition from China.)

-- Ken