james@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu (06/08/89)
To all interested, The following is a summary of the activities in the attempt to create the newsgroup sci.med.physics: On about April 12, announcements were posted to obtain a general feel for the level of interest in the group. Postings went to sci.physics, comp.graphics, sci.med, and sci.misc. On April 21, a CALL FOR DISCUSSION was posted in these groups, as well as COMP.AI.VISION and NEWS.GROUPS There was really no active discussion, but I received instead 22 replies by mail from people interested in the group, and discussing what they would like to see in such a group. On May 8, a CALL FOR VOTES was posted to the above mentioned groups. On May 9, two votes were lost after I initially read them. I posted a message asking people to reaffirm their votes for this date. I received three messages from people whose votes I already had registered for May 9. On May 21, due to a mistake in reading the rules, voting was closed. This was quickly corrected on the same day with postings to all affected groups. Voting closed yesterday. The vote total, after any known corrections, is: YES: 140 NO: 11 ------------------- YES-NO 129 Based on my initial proposal, the group is to be un-moderated, and it will be left up to a general concensus of the participants to keep the level of discussion on an appropriate plane. The purpose of this group is to allow a forum for discussion of applications of physics in Medicine. The broad categories include: Biophysics Biomechanics (eg. movement science) Health Physics (eg. radiation safety) Diagnostic Applications (eg. Imaging applications) Radiation Therapy Applications Nuclear Medicine Applications The following is a list of votes: YES VOTES kilroy@mimsy.umd.edu (Darren F. Provine) oebele@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Oebele Dijkstra) haake@cvs.rochester.edu tjh%bu-pub.BU.EDU@bu-it.edu (Tim Hall) kopf@uncecs.edu (David Kopf) stein@oscsuna.osc.edu (Rick Stein) eil@spdcc.com (steve Elias)Sarrel@cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) WWTMHJW@HEITUE5.BITNET (Dr. Herman J. Woltring) moorthy@tutoring.cs.rpi.edu jesse@emx.utexas.edu (Jesse Driver) wls@suns.UMD.EDU (William L. Sebok) yih@wasatch.utah.edu (Benny Yih) mcs@mayo.edu (Mahlon Stacy) ksp@maxwell.nde.swri.edu (Keith S. Pickens) stjhmc!stjhmc.fidonet.org!ddodell@asuvax.asu.edu (David Dodell) slh%beta@lanl.gov erlebacher@turing.toronto.edu (Beverly Erlebacher) 37147_1234@uwovax.uwo.ca (Marv Sherebrin) cah@ece-csc.ncsu.edu (craig Hamilton) oacb2@emx.utexas.edu (D. Brunder) fed!mqws2!m1swd00@uunet.uu.net (Sean Doyle) mschedlb@hawk.ulowell.edu (martin Scheldbauer) msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Smith) susan@beppe.ericsson.se (susan Cohen) bstrand@sierra.cray.com (Brad Strand) dls@saturn.wustl.edu (Donald L. Snyder) mrk@lfu_one.wustl.edu (Mark R. Kaufmann) clo%oclcsun.butnet (Charles L. Ohrstedt) klg@orion.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer) varri@tut.fi (Alpo Varri) orion@cup.portal.com martyn@med-image.compsci.bristol.ac.uk (Dr. Martin Shortley) phill%med-image.compsci.bristol.ac.uk (Phill Everson) carol@med-image.compsci.bristol.ac.uk (Carol Taylor) alan%essex.ac.uk (Alan M. Stanier) desw%cogs.sussex.ac.uk (Des Watson) jma@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Jeff Alexander) kauffman-jon@yale.arpa (Jon Kauffman) shell!jody@somewhere jody Winston eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) elwin@oddjob (Shin) rebel!didsgn!root@gatech.edu (Jean-Luc Chatelain) giovanne@topaz.rutgers.edu (Steve Giovannetti) hucaby@ms.uky.edu reiner@isy.liu.se (Reiner Lenz) mandel@ehsnet.fidonet.org (Hector Mandel) sherouse@godot.radonc.unc.edu (Dr. George Sherouse) aoa!carl@harvard.harvard.edu (Carl Witthoft) kenny@ds-rtp.dg.com (Karen Kenny) madhu@hubcap.clemson.edu (Madhu Raman) johnston@lbl-csam.arpa (Bill Johnston) annala%neuro.usc.edu (A J Annala) ephraim%techunix.bitnet (Ephraim Silverberg) mdante@daitc.mil (Mike Dante) stjhmc!f12.n106.71.fidonet.org james.hojmanowski@f4.n233.71.fidonet.org eastick@me.utoronto.bitnet conrad!sac@cs.utexas.edu clive%med-image.compsci.bristol.ac.uk (Clive Haworth) gindi%gindi@venus.ycc.yale.edu (Gene Gindi) nk@techunix.bitnet (Nahum Kiryati) diana@cis.ohio-state.edu (Diana Smetters) munnari!facet.ee.su.oz.au (Michael Braun) ernest.stokely@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Ernie Stokely) bourland@godot.radonc.unc.edu (J. Daniel Bourland) pierre.landau@brl1.nyu.edu stenstro@kbsvax.crd.ge.com (j. Ross Stenstrom) bloomer@mozart.crd.ge.com (John J. Bloomer) segall@caip.rutgers.edu (Ed Segall) jdye@ads.com (John W. Dye Jr.) engelson@cs.yale.edu (Sean Philip Engelson) elmat@dna.the.se (Anders Holm) dyer@cs.wisc.edu (Chuck Dyer) hong%nmr@venus.ycc.yale.edu (Hong Yan) kprasad@caip.rutgers.edu (K. Venkatesh Prasad) blackman@hodgkin.med.upenn.edu (David Blackman sonjg@ee.ecn.purdue.edu (Jisheng Song) malcom@apple.com (Malcolm Slaney) dev@uwovax.butnet (Devkumar R. Sainani) cucard!ccnysci!patth@columbia.edu (Patt Haring) ping@rover.uchicago.edu (Dr. Hu) msz@bmc.uu.se (Michael Szardenings, Uppsala) luner@cs.wisc.edu (David L. Luner) cmeyer@isl.stanford.edu (Craig Meyer) sorenson@athena.mit.edu (Greg Sorensen) mcgregor@ncicrf.gov (George Mcgregor) slh%beta@lanl.gov (Sally L Harris) ah%ipg.ph.kcl.ac.uk (Anthony R Hare) bpangrle@wpi.bitnet (Brian J Pangrle) sedspace@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Abrams) neuro@moe.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Sean Marrett) dsc@osteocyber.ortho.hmc.psu.edu (David S. Channin) herve@cvl.umd.edu (Jean-Yves Herve') stenstro@kbsvax.crd.ge.com (J. Ross Stenstrom) susan@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Susan Eberlein) tan@rover.uchicago.edu (Kim Kiat Tan) binford@anaconda.stanford.edu (Tom Binford) rick@pavlov.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller) coggins@cs.unc.edu (Dr. James Coggins) ficc!jeffd@uunet.uu.net (Jeff Daiell) agr@ares.cs.wayne.edu (Arindam) sono!holley@sun.com (Greg Holley) ficc!sms@uunet.uu.net (Stanley M. Sutton) gao%nmr@venus.ycc.yale.edu neveu@garnet.berkeley.edu haas@ethz.uucp goree%nmr@venus.ycc.yale.edu roeske@rover.uchicago.edu (John Roeske) rose@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu (John Rose) david@csam.lbl.gov (David Robertson) unido!gmdzi!mes@uunet.uu.net (Bernd Messenbrink) dov@facet.ee.su.oz (Dr. Dov Rosenfeld) james@rover.uchicago.edu (James Balter) her3@tank.uchicago.edu (Ben Hermann) liz%nmr@venus.ycc.yale.edu thomas%usuhs.bitnet (Jerry Thomas) allen%biomed.abdn.ac.uk (Dr. Alistair Allen) mike%mgh-rnmr@harvard.harvard.edu braun@facet.ee.su.oz ng_sm@facet.ee.su.oz towng@facet.ee.su.oz wang@facet.ee.su.oz hedley@facet.ee.su.oz yan@facet.ee.su.oz trevor@uwovax.uwo.ca (Trevor Cradduck) guti%psi#iafe%ssl.span@io.arc.nasa.gov (Alberto L. Barengols) jianhui%nmr@venus.ycc.yale.edu MED015%DJUKFA11.BITNET (Otto Muzik) weinhous@castor.wust1.edu (Marty Weinhous) jjc@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Jeffrey James Brian Carpenter) maguire@cs.columbia.edu (Chip Maguire) sean@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Sean McLinden) danthrax@ariel.unm.edu len@netsys.com (Len Rose) tvass@polyslo.calpoly.edu (Gwen) tsm@ifi.uio.no (Truls Solheim Myklebust) mann%yalevm.bitnet (Ed Manning) pearl@aramis.rutgers.edu shs@uts.amdahl.com (Steve Schoettler) edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) NO VOTES bburns@BRL.MIL arisco@mcc.com (john Arisco) elsie!ado@ncifcrf.gov (Arthur David Olson) cew@venera.isi.edu tombre@weissenburger.crin.fr (Karl Tombre) mvac23!thomas@udek.edu (Thomas Lapp) norm@ocha.bcm.tmc.edu (Norman Furlong) tower@bu-it.bu.edu jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) icdi10!fr@cdin-1.uu.net (Fred Rump) One vote was posted in SCI.MED due to a failure to reach me (eli@spdcc.com). This vote was not counted. There is now a five day period to correct voting errors and settle any other problems. James Balter james@rover.uchicago.edu "If the hat fits, slice it!"