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UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S

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COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AGREEMENT WITH THE MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY (15) The Dean of the College of Medicine and the Chancellor at the Medical Center campus have recommended to me authorization of a Cooperative Research Agreement between The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M Company) providing for a grant of $80,000 from this company for a feasibility study of radio opacity of fluorine-containing compounds for use in medicine, to be conducted by the Department of Surgery of the College of Medicine. The agreement will provide for the assignment of all patent rights and discoveries developed under the Agreement to the University of Illinois Foundation. If assigned these rights, the Foundation has agreed to give a non-exclusive, royalty-bearing license to the 3M Company, with the option to convert to an exclusive license at a higher royalty rate. This recommendation is endorsed by the Executive Vice President and P r o vost and the Vice President and Comptroller. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Swain, this recommendation was approved.

AMENDMENT TO CONTRACT FOR PUBLICATION OF HIGH SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS IN MATHEMATICS (16) On April 28, 1962, the Board of Trustees authorized the University to enter into negotiations with D.. C. Heath and Company to publish a revision of the University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics High School Mathematics series — developed by Professor Max Beberman of the College of Education and Professor Herbert E. Vaughan of the Department of Mathematics at the Urbana campus. The series had previously been published and distributed by the University of Illinois Press. The fourth and last volume of that series has been scheduled for publication in 1969. D. C. Heath and Company (a division of Raytheon Corporation) has declined to publish this fourth volume because it contends that the market is insufficient to commit the usual investment necessary for bringing out a new text. (The Company was released from its commitment in the original agreement to publish this volume because the authors did not meet the deadline established.) Since the final volume (Course 4) is a culmination of the entire series and since it will continue to be useful for experimental purposes in mathematics education here and elsewhere, it seems desirable to have the volume published. After lengthy negotiations, Heath and Company has agreed to make an inexpensive publication of the textbook by producing an offset copy from a typescript prepared by U I C S M . The Company has also agreed to pay $2,300 to the University for preparation of the typescript, but originally requested that the text be published royalty-free. (The present agreement calls for a 15 per cent royalty: 5 per cent to the University, 5 per cent to Professors Beberman and Vaughan, and 5 per cent to Professor Hyman Gabai, formerly of the University of Illinois and now at York College in New York City, and Dr. Steven Szabo of the UICSM staff — the latter two having prepared the manuscript for Course 4.) Professors Beberman and Vaughan have agreed to forego their share of the royalty, and Heath and Company has finally agreed to pay 2 per cent royalty to Doctors Gabai and Szabo. The Executive Vice President and Provost and the Vice President and Comptroller recommend, with the concurrence of the University Counsel, that the University relinquish its share of the royalty in return for a promise by D. C. Heath and Company to publish the material and to pay $2,300 to the University so that the publication of the four-volume High School Mathematics series can be completed. It is believed that the market for the text will not be great, and hence that the University's loss of royalty would not be substantial. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Clement, this recommendation was approved.

AMENDMENT TO CONTRACT FOR FABRICATION OF ILLIAC IV COMPUTER (17) On February 16, 1966, the Board of Trustees approved the prime research contract to design, fabricate, and operate the I L L I A C I V Computer with Rome