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...formed in 1982 by ten companies, in part to counter Japan's Fifth- Generation Project, a combined government and industry effort to develop new supercomputers. The consortium's member firms agreed to pool the results of jointly financed long-term research conducted at an Austin center on such subjects as artificial intelligence and the making of silicon microchips. The original MCC roster was an honor roll of technological titans, including Digital Equipment, Advanced Micro Devices, Honeywell and National Semiconductor. Subsequently other respected firms, including 3M and Boeing, joined, and the current membership numbers...
Channell, 41, runs a total of nine foundations and political-action committees for right-wing causes. He has raised money from such well-known conservative donors as Ellen Garwood of Austin, who once gave a helicopter to the contras. At a dinner in Washington's Willard Hotel on Nov. 11, North presented Channell with a thank-you letter from Ronald Reagan, expressing the President's appreciation for Channell's pro-contra efforts. When Congress was debating a resumption of military aid to the contras, earlier this year, Channell's Liberty endowment boasted that it would spend more than $2.5 million...
...very frustrating and demoralizing time for minority professors," says Regina Austin, an associate professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania. "You see a sort of rolling up the carpet of welcome for minority professors...
...think it's our legitimacy that's being challenged and that is clearly tied to our views and the kinds of problems we address," Austin says...
...Numbers alone will not solve the problem," Austin says. "There's got to be a sharing of power and a change from the norm...