more on Intel's bounty for library theft

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Dr. James J. O'Donnell" <provost () georgetown edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:40:22 -0400 (EDT)
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: Intel's bounty for library theft

Looks like Intel dropped a clanger on this one . . .


http://news.com.com/Librarians+fuming+over+Intel+magazine+bounty/2100-10
06_3-5671169.html?tag=nefd.top
<http://news.com.com/Librarians+fuming+over+Intel+magazine+bounty/2100-1
006_3-5671169.html?tag=nefd.top>

A day after Intel said it would offer $10,000 for a copy of a magazine
in which Moore's Law was first announced, a University of Illinois
engineering library noticed that one of its two copies had disappeared.

There was a glaring space on the shelf where the bound volume containing
the April 19, 1965, edition of Electronics Magazine sat for years, said
Mary Schlembach, assistant engineering librarian at the Grainger
Engineering Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Another librarian heard a student talking on a cell phone about the
volume the same day, Schlembach said. Ordinarily, the magazine is not a
popular item.

"We don't know when it walked, but it walked," she said. "A lot of
copies will go missing."

Librarians at Stanford University, the University of Washington and
other universities say they are angry at Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel
for posting on eBay a $10,000 bounty
<http://news.com.com/Intel+offers+10%2C000+for+Moores+Law+magazine/2100-
1006_3-5663120.html?tag=nl>  for a copy of the magazine. The bounty went
up on April 11. Since then, others have posted bounties too.

Although Intel specifically said it would only buy library copies from
libraries, the situation is creating problems. Stanford has pulled its
copy off the shelves, said Karen Greig, head of reference at the
engineering library at Stanford.

Hunt nearly over for Intel
A second copy owned by the University of Illinois is under lock and key.
The school has no intention of selling it. "We want to keep the original
for historical and archiving purposes," Schlembach said. "This is not a
good idea."

The April 19, 1965, issue of the magazine contained an article by Intel
co-founder Gordon Moore
<http://news.com.com/Gordon+Moore+on+40+years+of+his+processor+law/2008-
1006_3-5657677.html?tag=nl>  that described how the number of components
on integrated circuits was doubling every year. The article became the
foundation for Moore's famed dictum
<http://news.com.com/FAQ+Forty+years+of+Moores+Law/2100-1006_3-5647824.h
tml?tag=nl>  and has been a cornerstone of the entire IT industry for
decades.


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