burich@Apple.COM (Vicki Burich) (02/10/89)
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS COMPETITION January 2, 1989 Sunnyvale, CA The Apple Professional Exchange (APX), has announced the establishment of the annual Professional Papers Competition (PPC) for Macintosh users. This competition was developed for users in the academic, professional and scientific world. APX believes that many would like to share, for the mutual benefit, their technical and research papers with the Macintosh community. The national competition is being conducted to solicit technical papers within five major categories that are consistent with industry and academic uses of the Macintosh computer. The major sponsors for the PPC are the User Group Connection at Apple Computer, Cambridge Marketing, MacUser, MacWEEK, and Ricoh Corporation. The sponsors are a indication of the type of broad base support that this competition has solicited to date. They represent several major segments of the Macintosh community and are eagerly sponsoring the first shot at bringing true professionalism to the industry. A First Place prize of a Ricoh PC Laser 6000/PS printer will be awarded in each of the five categories, and the Grand Prize of a Apple Macintosh IIx will go to the best of the best. Several other developers are contributing additional hardware and software products that are appropriate to the various categories. Symbolics Inc. of Cambridge, Mass will provide a two-board MacIvory set with 30 MB of software for the AI category to be awarded along with the Ricoh Postscript printer. Qume Corporation of San Jose announced that they would provide a second place prize of a CrystalPrint Publisher Page Printer for the Publishing category. The total retail price of all announced prizes is over $55,000 to date. The winners will also be provided air fare to and hotel accommodations for the MBC&E (Macintosh Business Conference & Exposition) in New York City, where they will present their papers.. An overview of this competition is as follows: 1. The purpose of the competition is to develop technical papers within each of the following categories. Communications/Networking Publishing Database Artificial Intelligence Engineering/Scientific 2. To ensure high standards, APX, through its judges, reserves the right to reject any papers in a category that is found to not have technical merit, including the elimination of a complete category should no technical merit be found within the papers submitted. 3. All entries will become the property of APX and call as hotel accommodations for the conference. Meals at the conference will not be provided except when at special invitation dinners and breakfasts. 5. All prizes will be reported to the Internal Revenue Service. 6. Competition contributors, to date, are as follows: Apple Computer Macintosh IIx grand prize APX, Inc. contest coordination and screening all entries Cambridge Mrktg hotel accommodations awards all 1st place MacUser awards banquet and judging coordination all entries MacWEEK air fare awards and extensive advertising all 1st place Qume Corporation CrystalPrint Publisher Page Printer award Pub. 2nd place Ricoh PC Laser 6000/PS printers all 1st place Symbolics, Inc. MacIvory Board plus Applications Software AI 1st place 7. To receive their awards, the competition first place winners must present their papers before an audience in New York City at the MBC&E. 8. Apple Computer, Inc. has agreed to provide several judges for each category and MacUser and MacWEEK have agreed to help select and impanel the judges. Pre-screening of all entries by a committee from APX and Connect, Inc. will proceed as the entries arrive. APX Board members, Competition Judges, employees of Cambridge Marketing and their families will NOT be eligible to submit papers. 9. All entries must be submitted either electronically, in a compressed format (using Stuffit 1.5x), and/or on an 800K floppy disk along with one paper copy in a soft cover binder to the addresses shown below. All entries must be postmarked or electronically date stamped on or before midnight of the final submission date. Any entry arriving after 3 March 1989 will be rejected as not meeting the requirements for consideration during this competition, but may be resubmitted during a later competition. There are two addresses provided as additional insurance that the papers will be received in good order and on time. It is advisable to use both methods. David W. Brandmeyer Connect Information Service APX National Papers Competition Coordinator using MacNET Software c/o MicroComputer Technologies, Inc. Account ID: TECHPAPERS 1503 South Coast Drive, Suite 109 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 10. For an entry to be accepted for consideration the following criterion is set forth: (a) All original submissions are final, must be the original work of the author and previously unpublished. (b) The paper must be at least twenty (20), but not more than forty (40) pages, in dual column format with 12 point Helvetica text, line spacing not more than 3 points above the text point size (single line spacing), on US letter size pages, with one (1) inch borders on all sides, one line headers/footers are allowed and footnotes as well as table of contents and bibliographies are required. Further, all figures (art work) must be original and embedded in the text of the paper. Font size specifications do not apply to headers, footers and figures. Figures cannot exceed one standard page in size. Table of contents and bibliographies do not count in the page total. (c) All papers must be prepared on a Macintosh using one or more of the following software options: PageMaker 3.0x Microsoft Word 3.0x Ready-Set-Go Version 4 WordPerfect Quark Express Version 2 FullWrite Professional 11. The competition schedule is as follows: Dec. 2, 1988 Start Planning Jan. 2, 1989 Announce competition Feb. 1, 1989 Announce panel selections Feb. 27, 1989 Final submission date Mar. 6, 1989 Initial screening complete Mar. 13, 1989 Initial judging complete Mar. 20, 1989 Announce finalists Apr. 17, 1989 Winners present papers 12. Overall coordination responsibility for this event rests with APX, and should any specific questions arise, they should be directed to either of the following persons: Mike Bailey, President APX, Inc. 370 Altair Way, Box 175 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 David W. Brandmeyer, National Papers Competition Coordinator c/o MicroComputer Technologies, Inc. 1503 South Coast Drive, Suite 109 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 ---------------------------- Sorry about the poor quality regarding the copying from the original document! Vicki