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BOAED OF TRUSTEES

[June 21

on the size of the particular division of WOTIC within specified limits of £0Ur ranges: General — Clarence H . Siems Company, Urbana Electrical — Potter Electric Service, Inc., Urbana Plumbing — Thomas Plumbing and Heating Company, Urbana Heating,_ Piping, Refrigeration, and Automatic Temperature Control Systems David W . Reichard Plumbing and Heating, Urbana Ventilating and Distribution Systems for Conditioned Air — F . R. Inskip a n j Company, Champaign. T h e work will be done as ordered by the Physical Plant Department and w;;j be paid for on the basis of the actual cost of each job plus contractors fees, j \ schedule of bids taken showing the percentages to be added for work to he executed under these cost-plus contracts is submitted herewith and a copy of the schedule is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record as the basis for the contract awards recommended. No assignment of funds is requested at this rime and each job will be covered by a contract change order charged against funds allocated for the project* It is further recommended that the Comptroller be authorized to approve orders under these contracts up to $25,000 on each project provided that anv orders exceeding this amount shall be submitted to the Board of Trustees i0"r approval in advance, in accordance with previous practice and authorization. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Swain, these contracts were authorized, as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr, Clement, Mr. Dilliard, Mr. Hughes, Mr, Johnston, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins! Mr. Wilkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Harewood, Mr Kerne r.

GRANT TO C O O R D I N A T E D S C I E N C E LABORATORY (30} The University has received official notice that the Advanced Research Projects Agency ( A R P A ) of the Department of Defense has made available to the United States Army Signal Corps $990,000 as a grant to the University of Illinois for the purpose of strengthening high-speed computing facilities at the Coordinated Science Laboratory. This grant was made from a special $4,500,000 fund being allocated to ten university laboratories supported by the Department of Defense and engaged in interdisciplinary research. The grant will be principally used to acquire a large digital computing system to be installed at the Coordinated Science Laboratory in the near future. This system will consist of a bank of high-speed magnetic tape storage units and an all transistorized central computer having 32,768 words of magnetic core memory and operating at rates up to 100,000 computations per second. Also partially supported by this award is an experimental short word length computer now under construction at the Coordinated Science Laboratory. This experimental computer is designed primarily for nonarithmetical operations and will be used in experiments in real-time logical data processing. This grant will materially strengthen the facilities of the University for highspeed computing. Current research programs at the Coordinated Science Laboratory benefiting by this award Involve adaptive control systems, research studies in the physics of surfaces, plasma physics, applications of digital computers in real-time games, and automatic teaching machine studies. I have acknowledged the grant with an appropriate expression of appreciation on behalf of the Board of Trustees and other University officials, and report it for record.

This report was received for record. At this point, the President of the Board ordered a five-minute recess prior to taking up consideration of the following item of business.

INCORPORATION OF H U L L HOUSE IN UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CAMPUS IN CHICAGO (31) Before presenting this report and his recommendations, President *J«irv made an introductory statement reviewing the considerations given by the official*