COMPUTING SUPPORT & POLICY COMMITTEE

         Minutes of the 53rd Meeting

              21 March 1995

1. Present: Morris Sloman (mss) Mustafa Ghanem (mmg) Silvana
Zappacosta (sza) Jim Murphy (jim) Paul Kelly (phjk) Jeff Magee (jnm)
Duncan Gillies (dfg) Amanda Pash (ahp, secretary).

2. Apologies for absence: Bob Pullen

3. Minutes of the last meeting were agreed.

4. Matters arising from previous meetings

49.1.2 Student home pages (Appendix B)
	The enclosed policy proposal was agreed and it was decided to present
	the statement to the Executive Committee and then Bob Hynds at CCS and
	the College Information Systems Strategy Committee. It was proposed
	that the facility would be available from next term.

49.2.2 Smalltalk
	JNM reported that there would be a need for Smalltalk during the next
	two years at least.

50.8.1 Sun IPC workstations for PhD students
	Four machines were allocated immediately.  The remainder will be
	allocated shortly, as soon as students and supervisors have had time
	to respond to the announcements.  First-year students have lower
	priority than students later in their studies.
	[ACTION: JIM to deliver machines to PhD students Mark Nuttall,
	Madhu Bhabuta, Wu Wen, Wing To / Martin Kohler].
	[ACTION: MMG to email students and supervisors.  PHJK, JIM to 
	allocate remainder].

52.7.2 1995-96 equipment funds bids
	PHJK reported that he had emailed all interested parties about the two
	bids put forward in the last meeting (PC Lab upgrade and FPGA Lab). He
	invited more bids before the end of March. MSS suggested more graphics
	machines could be requested.
	[ACTION: DFG to put in a proposal for graphics equipment].

5. Chairman's actions
	Thefts: ca. 1700 pounds has been spent to replace processor and memory
	chips etc. stolen from the Real Time Lab.

6. Access to all-doc mailing list
	JIM reported that there had been a number of complaints following a
	PhD student mailing a joke to the all-doc alias. The committee felt
	that it was an isolated incident and that PhDs should continue to have
	the privilege of using such aliases.

7. Equipment requests
	Fuzz: it has been established that Fuzz is already installed on teaching
	machines.

7.1 Technical Library Mac (Appendix A)
	Agreed subject to funds being available.
	[ACTION: PHJK to check budget balance and report back to the committee].

8. Date of next meeting is 23 May 1995 at 2pm.