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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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At the December 8,1966, meeting of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Irving Dilliard suggested that the building now housing the College of Law be named for former Governor Adlai E. Stevenson. T h e President of the Board referred this question to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds. The Committee has heard reports from the President of the University and the Dean of the College of Law concerning the reactions of the faculty and alumni to Mr. Dilliard's suggestion. The Committee has discussed the suggestion at some length and now makes the following report of its actions: (1) that the present name of the building, "Law Building," be unchanged (this action of the Committee was approved by a vote of four to t w o ) ; (2) that the Committee will explore the concept of seeking an appropriate means of memorializing Mr. Stevenson at some location or in some way on the Urbana campus (this was approved unanimously).

EARL W . PORTER Clerk HAROLD POGUE, Chairman IRVING DILLIARD EARL M. HUGHES W A Y N E A. JOHNSTON TIMOTHY W . S W A I N K E N N E Y E. WILLIAMSON

GUESTS OF THE BOARD

President Clement announced that a group of undergraduate student leaders had been invited to be guests of the Board at this meeting and at luncheon. RECESS AND EXECUTIVE SESSION President Clement stated that an executive session had been requested and was being ordered for consideration of business relating to patentable inventions and acquisition of property. On motion of Mr. Williamson, the Board recessed. When the Board reconvened in executive session, the same members, officers of the Board, and officers of the University were present as recorded at the beginning of these minutes except Mr. Page who asked to be excused. The Board considered the following report and recommendation from the President of the University.

RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY PATENT COMMITTEE (34) The University Patent Committee, with the concurrence of the Chairman of the University Research Board, submits the following reports and recommendations relating to patentable inventions by members of the staff. 1. Energy receiver or transmitter — Will J. Worley, Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, inventor. The device consists of two parts, a reflector and a collector or a transmitting source. T h e combination may be used to receive energy originating at a remote location or it may be used to transmit energy to a remote location. The energy may be electromagnetic, heat or sound energy. The novelty of the device lies in the geometric shapes of the reflector and the collector or transmitter. The Committee was advised that the inventor has requested a grant from the National Science Foundation to do further work on the idea and that commercial possibilities are quite remote. It is recommended that the rights of the University be assigned to the inventor. 2. On-line computer device for input of manual symbolics — Richard M. Brown, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Research Professor of Physics in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, inventor; developed under a contract with the Department of the Army. This is an input device for a digital computer which, along with a computer program, makes possible the recognition of a wide range of symbolic characters which are manually traced or printed at the time of use. The essential difference between this technique and other character recognition schemes lies in the introduction of stroke information and tracing sequence information as well as the customary tracing position information.