Becoming a Member

The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University has established the Andrew Consortium to maintain and enhance the Andrew User Interface System (Andrew). The Consortium offers outside organizations the opportunity to help shape the future of the system. Participate in the development of Andrew, utilize the latest advances by our technical staff, and undertake commercial exploitation with the active cooperation of the developers.

The overall efforts of the Consortium staff are directed toward:

-increased quality in existing media,
-enhancements, including a direct manipulation interface builder,
-embedding of applications such as generic X applications,
-increased potential for transition from Andrew to successor systems
-interoperability with standards such as Posix, Motif, C++, OLE, and SGML.

The Consortium makes its most up-to-date release, currently Andrew 7 in C++, available only to members. The current publicly available Andrew release is 6.3, released via anonymous file transfer over the internet.

Membership in the Consortium is offered to organizations interested in exploiting Andrew technology within their operations or products. All members support the consortium as it:

-Enhances, maintains, and distributes the Andrew software base.
-Conducts an annual meeting to review progress and set priorities.
-Distributes a quarterly newsletter
-Monitors the info-andrew mailing list.

We offer membership at four levels:

• Associate
• Contributing
• Full
• Participating

You are cordially invited to join us. Please contact our director to discuss the opportunities that the Consortium has to offer. He can be reached at:

Dr. Wilfred J. Hansen
Director, Andrew Consortium
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890

email: wjh+@andrew.cmu.edu
telephone: (412) 268-6788
facsimile: (412) 268-5571