WELCOME TO MACSCITECH Doug Nomura, DNAX Research, MacSciTech Chairman The charter of the Macintosh Scientific & Technical Users Association (MacSciTech) is "...to seek to enhance the effective utilization of the Macintosh within the scientific and engineering communities." For this to be accomplished, MacSciTech will focus on several goals including communication with, education of, and influencing the scientific and technical community, Macintosh developers, and Apple Computer. To be effective, MacSciTech must function as a combination users group and professional society. As a users group, it will provide public domain software, information, and the informality of a users group, but as a professional association of scientists and engineers it will seek to provide applications-specific solutions and technical education to its members. In addition, it will promote open communication between its members and serve as a formal link with Apple and its developers by conveying thoughts and ideas through two-way dialogs about the scientific and engineering markets. MacSciTech realizes the scientific and engineering community comprises users from a wide range of scientific and technical disciplines that have varying levels of computer expertise and a wide variety of needs. Consequently, we feel that enhancing the individual users knowledge and technical capacity will lead to more effective use of the Macintosh in their specific environment. MacSciTech will therefore educate both non-Macintosh and Macintosh using scientists and engineers through technical conferences, regular newsletters and direct member-to-member interactions. Non-Macintosh users will be presented with the Macintosh as an alternative hardware platform with a wide array of available scientific and technical solutions. The Macintosh will be demonstrated as a viable research tool able to accomplish many of the tasks required in laboratory or industrial settings. And users will learn directly from colleagues who will describe how they use the Macintosh for a variety of purposes, thereby showing them a "real world" perspective. In addition, Macintosh users of all levels of computer expertise will learn more about the capabilities of the Macintosh Q from simple applications to intensive number crunching. By learning about new or alternate solutions and techniques, these users will discover more efficient ways to tackle simple and complex problems. Effective communication between MacSciTech and its members will play a significant role in the success of MacSciTech. Communication will allow scientists and engineers to seek solutions, and share knowledge, opinions, and expertise. Along these lines, MacSciTech will encourage the use of electronic messaging (i.e. America Online) to facilitate such communications. MacSciTech will provide a forum where questions relating to the use of the Macintosh in the technical climate may be publicly presented and addressed. It will be a forum where users of all levels are encouraged to participate and discuss a variety of topics from simple applications to pushing the "envelope" of the Macintosh. It will be an arena where MacSciTech members will be able to communicate with colleagues and learn how others use the Macintosh in their environment. MacSciTech needs to encourage, stimulate, and catalyze such open dialogs among the scientific and technical computing community. By openly communicating among colleagues, members will be involved in stimulating professional exchanges sharing solutions, debating issues, discussing questions, and demonstrating the needs and concerns of the technical computing community. Through MacSciTech, Apple Computer and its developers will learn more about the needs of scientists and engineers. They will learn of needs ranging from simple applications and turn-key solutions to those which test the limits of Macintosh. They will see a large body of technical users eager to use the Macintosh, but only if solutions exist. They will see users employing Macintosh technology in ways they never envisioned. And they will see the Macintosh helping scientists make great strides in scientific endeavors. Finally, developers will learn more about the scientific and engineering communities and better understand the people and their needs. MacSciTech should not be viewed as a "front" for Apple Computer, but as a "grass roots" organization composed of concerned scientists and engineers devoted to the better utilization of the Macintosh. MacSciTech believes praise will not spur innovation but good intellectual criticism will. Therefore, MacSciTech will be an objective and analytical critic of Apple and its developersU products while also acknowledging their strengths. The success of MacSciTech will not be measured by the size of its membership. The success of MacSciTech will be measured by a professional excellence that is dedicated to the enhancement of individual users and the improvement of tools that drive science and engineering to greater frontiers. It will be measured by the recognition of the Macintosh by scientists and engineers as a tool that will accomplish a myriad of simple and complex tasks in a simple and efficient manner, therefore leading to an increased presence and usage of the Macintosh for scientific and industrial purposes. Finally, success will be measured by an increased recognition and understanding of the science and engineering market by all Macintosh developers. MacSciTech Macintosh Scientific & Technical Users Association MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Date ______________________________ MacSciTech MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS Q (check those you wish to receive) _____ Quarterly MacSciTech Newsletter filled with expert columns, application notes, "How To" articles, new products, and a guide to our online services _____ America Online and Internet access to MacSciTechUs bulletin board service, software database, and Experts Panel _____ Apple Science CD-ROM and Technical Markets CD-ROM (optional) _____ Apple Science & Engineering Solutions Guide and Developer Tools Guide _____ Third-party Products Directory from the Consortium for Lab & Industrial Applications of the Macintosh _____ Discounted registration fees for the annual MacSciTech Technical Conference I. Membership Type (check one) ** Special Introductory Prices Good Through 1991 ** _____ Regular Member Q $25 for one year membership _____ Student Member Q $15 for one year membership (Enclose a copy of student ID) Name ______________________________________________ Title ______________________________________________ Company/University ___________________________________ Address _____________________________________________ City, State, Zip _______________________________________ Phone (______) _________ Fax (______) ___________ AppleLink _______________ America Online ____________ Internet __________________________ II. Field of work/study (check all that apply) _____ Agriculture/Soil Science _____ Environmental Sciences _____ Atmospheric Science _____ Manufacturing _____ Biology _____ Marine Science _____ Biochemistry _____ Mathematics/Statistics _____ Chemistry _____ Medicine _____ Computer/Info Science _____ Physics/Astronomy _____ Eng/Product Design _____ Social/Behavioral Science _____ Engineering/Product Test _____ Other (please specify) ____________________________________________ III. Company/Industry Affiliation (check one) _____ Aerospace _____ Hospital/Health Services _____ Automotive _____ Machinery/Tools _____ Chemicals _____ Military _____ Consulting _____ Pharmaceuticals _____ Consumer Products _____ Private Research Laboratory _____ Education/Univ/College _____ Research Insitute or Foundation _____ Electronics/Electrical _____ Telephone & Communications _____ Food _____ Transportation _____ Fuel, Oil, Mining _____ Utilities _____ Government (non-military) _____ Other (please specify) ___________________________________________ IV. Areas/technologies of interest (check all that apply) _____ Computer-aided Design _____ Process Control _____ Coprocessors _____ Project Management _____ Data Acquisition _____ Real-time Operating Systems _____ Digital Signal Processing _____ Statistical Analysis _____ Finite Element Computations _____ Technical Graphing _____ Fluid Flow Computations _____ Visualization _____ Mass Spec/LC/GC/HPLC _____ Other (please specify) ______________________________________________ V. Please give us a brief description of how you use the Macintosh in science/engineering: _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ VI. Please check method of payment: _____ Check # _____________________ _____ Money Order # _____________________ _____ Purchase Order # ________________________ (please attach company purchase order) VII. Make checks payable to MacSciTech and return with this form to: MacSciTech 49 Midgley Lane Worcester, MA 01604 Tel: 508-755-5242, Fax: 508-795-1636 America Online: SciTechMac, AppleLink: Cons.Lab.Mfg Internet: Cons.Lab.Mfg@Applelink.Apple.Com Thank you. Revised March 1991