Computer Sciences Laboratory Xerox Corporation Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, California 94304 415 494-4000 XEROX June 25, 1986 Mary Whitton Trancept Systems Inc. 521F Uwharrie Court Raleigh, NC 27606-1456 Dear Mary: John Beatty forwarded your ideas (dated April 14, 1986) concerning the Computer Graphics newsletter last weekend, as I shall be the new Editor-in-Chief for SIGGRAPH commencing July 1. We must share telepathic powers. As soon as I had been given your notes, but without reading them, I began thinking about new things to do with the Computer Graphics newsletter. One of my strongest ideas was to collect and publish recent PhD dissertation abstracts in the field of computer graphics. Your notes contained a very similar suggestion. I think we should do something about it. Lets start with PhD dissertation abstracts for several reasons. First, we both thought of it, therefore it must be a good idea. Second, I have a selfish reason: while trying to hire recent PhD graduates, how does my group discover the best computer graphic PhD grads around. Third, a review and bibliography service for the Computer Graphics newsletter already exists, but with the changeover in Editor-in-Chief, those services are under reconsideration. Please enquire about ways to discover what PhD dissertation abstracts relate to our field. Without committing you to edit such a column, we can begin to put the procedures in place. Sincerely, Richard J. Beach Editor-in-Chief Computer Graphics >StyleDefBeginStyle (Cedar) AttachStyle (letterHead1) "top node of a letter (should be empty)" { block 60 pt .neg bottomLeading } PrintRule (letterHead2) "letterhead address" { block AlternateFontFamily BasicIncrement smaller size 60 pt .neg topLeading 72 pt bottomLeading } StyleRule (logo) "for Xerox logo" { "Logo" family 24 pt size 24 bp topIndent -1.5 in leftIndent 48 pt 20 pt 5 pt topLeadingGlue 48 pt 20 pt 5 pt bottomLeadingGlue 75 pageBreakAfterLastLinePenalty 75 pt tabStops } PrintRule (logo) "Xerox logo: screen" { "Logo" family 24 pt size 36 bp topIndent 48 pt topLeading 48 pt bottomLeading 75 pt tabStops } ScreenRule (root) "Letter head style" { FontPrefix docStandard .5 in topMargin .8 in headerMargin .5 in footerMargin .5 in bottomMargin 1.75 in leftMargin 1.5 in rightMargin 5.25 in lineLength 24 pt topIndent 24 pt topLeading 0 leftIndent 10 pt rightIndent } StyleRule EndStyleI letterhead1I letterhead2IlogopIblocktMMNN NGi_Nit NqNN 'ipLIbody R