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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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10. Glottal interval extractor — Jordan Cohen, Graduate Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering, Urbana, and Murray L. Babcock, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Urbana, inventors; developed under the sponsorship of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This process automatically extracts the time between glottal pulses, which are present during the voiced portions of speech, from the complex time-pressure waveform resulting from natural speech. It also automatically separates the voiced portion of speech from the unvoiced portions. The Committee recommends that a patent application not be filed and since the work was done with the help of funds from the sponsoring agency, no further action by the Board is required since rights to the invention vest with that agency. 11. Means for increasing the efficiency of a laser — T. Ganley of the Gaseous Electronics Laboratory, Urbana, Joseph T. Verdeyen, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Urbana, and George Hunter Miley, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and of Electrical Engineering, Urbana, inventors; developed under the sponsorship of the Atomic Energy Commission. In this device, the alpha particles partially ionize the gas thereby relieving the electric field of this job. As a consequence, one can adjust the electric field for its optimum value for a given pressure. The Committee recommends that a patent application not be filed since the rights to the invention, under the contract held with the sponsoring agency, vest with that agency.

On motion of Mr. Swain, these recommendations were approved.

PURCHASE OF PROPERTY AT 9 0 1 - 9 0 3 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. CHAMPAIGN (24) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends, subject to the examination and approval of leases, that the property at 901-903 South Sixth Street, Champaign, be purchased at a price not to exceed $145,000. Funds are available in state capital appropriations to the University subject to release by the Governor. Alternate funds are available in Contract Research Reserve balances as a means of interim financing for this purchase in the event that state funds are not released in sufficient time. Authority is also requested to assign the contract to the University of Illinois Foundation if necessary or desirable to close the transaction at the same price and lease this property to the University at a rental sufficient to enable the Foundation to pay the interest cost on the loan secured to finance the acquisition. T h e Foundation would hold title to the property until the University has funds for its acquisition. If the property is assigned to the Foundation, it is further recommended that authorization be given to enter into a lease of the property with the Foundation from the time of said assignment to June 30, 1972, with option for annual renewal thereafter during the term of the lease, subject to funds being made available in the operating budget of the Department of Plant and Services. Funds for rental costs until June 30, 1972, are included in the University's operating budget for F Y 1972. Funds required after that date will be requested in the budget of the Department of Plant and Services on an annual basis. The property is located at the southwest corner of Sixth Street and Daniel Street in Champaign. The property has dimensions of approximately 116.25 feet by 49.3 feet (5,731 square feet) and is improved with various commercial properties consisting of six business establishments and four apartment sites.

On motion of Mr. Swain, this recommendation was approved and authority was given as recommended by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Neal, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Governor Ogilvie, Mr. Steger. On motion of Mr. Swain, the meeting was adjourned.

EARL W. PORTER EARL M. HUGHES

Secretary

President