Users of the MEMS Archives,

My name is Sridhar Gullapalli and I am the caretaker of the USC-ISI MEMS
Information Clearinghouse Archive. There have been some recent changes to the
archive (mostly additional capabilities) that you may want to be aware of.
These changes are described in detail below. They are:

 1. E-Mail access to the MEMS archive.
 2. WWW server access to the MEMS archive
 3. Support for image data (line drawings and pictures).
 4. Summary of MEMS archive contents.

1. EMAIL ACCESS TO THE MEMS ARCHIVE.

The MEMS archive is now accessible via electronic mail (e-mail). This service
will allow users who don't have full Internet capability to access the contents
of the MEMS archive by exchanging e-mail messages.

To get started using the MEMS archives using e-mail, send a message to "
mems-archive@isi.edu" with the following single line as the body of the
message:

    Help: Help

A sample message would look like

    To: MEMS-ARCHIVE@ISI.EDU
    Subject: E-mail archive access is way cool

    Help: Help

The message will be received at ISI and an automated reply message will be
generated and sent back to you. This automated response contains instructions
that will show you how to use the system to list and retrieve data. Please use
the system and send us your comments (info-mems@isi.edu).

2. LINKING UP WITH OTHER WWW SERVERS.

For those using a WWW (World Wide Web) client such as Mosaic to access the
archives, we have set up links with the "home" pages of Stanford's Center for
Design Research as well as the MOSIS service of the USC/Information Sciences
Institute. This set-up will enable users to look for information in those
archives in a seamless manner. Links to other MEMS information centers are in
the works and will be announced when they are made.

3. SUPPORT FOR LINE DRAWINGS AND SCANNED PICTURES.

We have now added support to allow storage and retrieval of scanned images via
two popular formats: GIF and JPEG. These formats can be viewed on multiple
platforms such as UNIX, Mac and PC, using suitable viewers. If you have scanned
images that you wish to provide to your colleagues in the MEMS community please
send e-mail to info-mems@isi.edu.

4. DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE MEMS ARCHIVES.

At the present time there are several directories that the MEMS community may
find useful.

a) We have descriptions of organizations and institutions that can fabricate
MEMS devices. These descriptions include some details about the baseline
processes, fab facilities, devices produced, capacities, etc. We will add to
this directory as we get more data.

b) We have Bibliographies of the "IEEE Transactions on MEMS" for the years
1990-93. This section also includes the bibliography of the 1992 IEEE Hilton
Head workshop. We provide all the bibliographies in two popular formats: ASCII
(plain text) and in the LaTEX bibliographic format.

We will add to this directory periodically.

c) We have a directory of user provided files, presently it contains
information on Texas Instruments' Patents on Deformable Mirror Devices. We
welcome other files and papers that you feel will be of relevance to your
colleagues in the MEMS community.

d) We provide information about MEMS Clubs and Seminars.

e) We archive articles from the MEMS Discussion Group as well as past issues of
the MEMS newsletter (The first issue will be out this month).

f) We provide a directory for ANNOUNCEMENTS of MEMS related Courses, Books,
Products etc.