COMPUTING SUPPORT & POLICY COMMITTEE

         Minutes of the 54th Meeting

              23 May 1995

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

2. Apologies for absence: Silvana Zappacosta (sza), Bob Pullen (rcp),
	Duncan Gillies (dfg).

3. Minutes of the last meeting were agreed.

4. Matters arising from previous meetings
49.1.2 Student home pages
	DoC will allow home pages with the understanding that personal tutors take
	responsibility for the content of their student's page.
	Action: PHJK to inform tutors of their responsibilty

	The committee affirmed that Frank Kriwaczek (frk) should be
	responsible for the editorial content of the departmental home page.

49.2.2 Smalltalk
	It was decided not to renew the upgrade maintenance contract when it
	expires in December and to carry on using the current set up for the
	foreseeable future. Sophia Drossopoulou will be evaluating the Unix
	version of Smalltalk V.

50.8.1 IPCs for PhDs
	Remaining allocations to be discussed at separate meeting by PHJK, JIM.
	[After discussion with MMG, Sparc IPC workstations were allocated 
	to Ortiz, Poon, Davilla, Weston, Yang Dan, Perry, freeing one colour Sun-3, 
	which should be allocated Jin Yang].

52.7.2 1995-96 equipment funds bid
	MSS reported that bids have been submitted, but that no decision has
	been reached yet. The likely date for a decision would be by the end
	of July. It was agreed that planning for high priority equipment
	should start now, regardless of the final decision. The plans will be
	discussed at the next CSPC meeting.

53.7.1 Technical Library Mac
	Agreed.

5. Chairman's actions
	None.

6. Security measures
	JNM reported that passive IR detectors had been installed on level 4
	and that there were plans to install the same on levels 3 and 5. He
	also recommended that individual machines be secured either by alarms
	or physical means.

7. Equipment requests
7.1 Back-up software
	Agreed. JNM suggested that back-up support should be included in the
	costing of new equipment.
	Action: JIM to cost.

7.2 SGI graphics
	Included in 52.7.2.

7.4 PC for PhD student Bobby Batacharia
	The committee felt that case needed to be justified better. The bid
	should come directly from the supervisor and include more details to
	support his case.

8. AOB
	MSS circulated a document from CCS and drew the committee's attention
	to the section concerning emailing lists.

9. Next meeting
	26 June 1995 at 12pm [postponed to Monday 17th July].