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- RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest Tuesday 12 January 1993 Volume 14 : Issue 26
-
- FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS
- ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator
-
- Contents:
- Florida Rental Car Scam (Dewey Coffman)
- Computer games may endanger your health (Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond)
- Ford's honesty saves county $2 million (John Cigas)
- Name+birthdate=no drivers license (Bruce Hayden)
- Student Load Errors Blamed on Computer (Steve Peterson)
- "Softkiller" as Arts? (Klaus Brunnstein)
- Computer Theft of Criminal Records (Gary McClelland)
- Computer hacking of flight details "was illegal" (Jonathan Bowen)
- Upcoming Telephone Number problems (Rob Horn)
- FAA prohibits pilot knowing GPS altitude in IFR flight (Jim Easton)
- Risks of networks (Larry WB Ching via Monty Solomon and Jerry Leichter)
- Version numbers (Andrew Marchant-Shapiro)
- About Computer Expense... (Paul Robinson) [humor?]
- Re: Large Foreign Exchange Rates (Mark Brader, Peter Trei, Dik Winter)
- Correction on Computers, Freedom and Privacy 1993 (Bruce Koball)
- 1993 Complex Systems Engineering Synthesis and Assessment (C.A. Meadows)
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 18:16:35 CST
- From: dewey@sooner.ctci.com (Dewey Coffman)
- Subject: Florida Rental Car Scam
-
- Ex-Car Rental Owners Indicted, FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP)
- Value Rent-A-Car Inc. rigged its COMPUTER system to set up a scam
- overcharging customers who returned their cars with less than a full tank, a
- federal indictment says. The indictment returned Friday says Steven M. Cohen,
- one of three former owners charged, fixed Value's computer system in 1988 to
- add five gallons to the fuel tank capacity of every vehicle in Value's fleet.
- This allowed the company to overcharge customers who turned in the car with
- less than a full tank.
- Federal prosecutor Lothar Genge said that through 1991, about 47,000
- customers were slapped with the phony charge, which ranged from a couple of
- dollars to $10 or $15. Mitsubishi Motor Sales bought the company in 1990 and
- is looking for ways to pay back the overcharges, Genge said.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:47:24 +0000
- From: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <o.crepin-leblond@ic.ac.uk>
- Subject: Computer games may endanger your health
-
- Nintendo Inquiry Launched
-
- The Government is probing claims of health hazards to children playing
- computer games like Nintendo. The informal inquiry follows reports that two
- boys in Cardiff had been struck down with epileptic fits.
-
- Baroness Denton, junior Consumer Affairs Minister, has called for an urgent
- report: `It is important to know if there are any health risks.
- [From Teletext service on Carlton TV & Channel 4 (UK), Thursday 7th Jan 93]
-
- Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond, Digital Comms. Section, Elec. Eng. Department
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2BT, UK
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 07 Jan 1993 16:59:41 -0500 (CDT)
- From: "I. LOVTUSKI" <CIGAS@RCKHRST1.BITNET>
- Subject: Ford's honesty saves county $2 million
-
- Here is an excerpt from an article in the Kansas City Star, January 7, 1993:
-
- Ford's honesty saves county $2 million, by Anne Lamoy
-
- An alert bookkeeper at the Ford Claycomo assembly plant saved Clay County
- from cheating itself out of $2 million. When paying the county's business
- personal property taxes recently, Ford's bookkeeper realized that the
- plant's two tax bills were much smaller than in previous years. Much, much
- smaller. "When the original bills were printed, they left off a digit,"
- Clay County Assessor Shirley Quick said Wednesday. "And that digit meant $1
- million." In fact, both tax bills were exactly $1 million short, thanks to
- a computerized data entry error.
-
- The article goes on to state that Ford is the only company that owes more than
- 1 million in business personal property taxes in the county. It doesn't say
- whether this is the first time their bill contained 7 digits.
-
- John Cigas, Rockhurst College cigas@rckhrst1.bitnet
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:33:14 GMT
- From: bhayden@csn.org (Bruce Hayden)
- Subject: Name+birthdate=no drivers license
-
- Today on a trouble shooting talk show in Denver, a caller called in to
- complain that his license had been revoked, and he had to leave his car since
- he couldn't drive.
-
- Apparently, he had renewed his drivers license recently (required every three
- years in Colorado). At that time, a database check was made of the other 49
- states. There was a match, based on birthdate and name. The other person with
- the same name and birthdate, had a suspended Penn. drivers license, based on a
- drunk driving conviction.
-
- Based on that match, his license was summarily revoked, and notice was mailed
- to him to that effect. (Which he apparently had not yet received). The license
- showed revoked at a routine traffic stop some time later. It is not clear how
- automatic the revocation process is. In any case, no hearing is offered before
- the revocation.
-
- The driver was especially upset because:
- 1) he had had a Colorado drivers license for 25 years.
- 2) he had never been to Pennsylvania, and
- 3) he didn't drink.
-
- The burden is apparently upon him to prove the the Colorado DMV that they had
- the wrong man. At present he is still fighting the organization trying to get
- his license reinstated.
-
- Bruce E. Hayden (303) 758-8400 bhayden@csn.org
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 10:57:50 CST
- From: Steve Peterson <peterson@fs.fs.com>
- Subject: Student Load Errors Blamed on Computer
-
- The following appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, 1/12/92:
-
- STUDENT LOAD ERRORS BLAMED ON COMPUTER (AP)
-
- Because of a computer problem, thousands of college students have been sent
- notices ordering them to begin repaying loans that aren't due, a loan-
- processing company in St. Paul [Minnesota] says.
-
- Shirley Chase, an attorney for EduServ Technologies, formerly known as Hemar
- Corp., said problems with a new computer system caused a backlog in
- processing student requests to defer payments. She said the company hopes
- to clear up the backlog by the end of February. More than 10,000 deferment
- forms are backlogged, she said.
-
- Because of the backlog, some students who are entitled to postpone their
- loan payments have gotten notices urging them to pay and some have been
- contacted by a collection agency. Chase said EduServ has "bent over
- backward" to make sure no adverse credit reports are filed with credit
- bureaus because of the delay. EduServ processes loans issued by banks and
- other lenders and make sure payments are current.
-
- Comment: Given that they probably had a choice of whether to send dunning
- notices to everyone or temporarily stop sending them, it shouldn't be
- surprising which choice they made.
-
- Steve Peterson, FOURTH SHIFT Corporation, 7900 International Drive,
- Bloomington, MN 55425 USA peterson@fs.com
-
- [My daughter reported in from Massachusetts that she had seen a
- message displayed in front of JD Auto Sales off Rte 128 in Swampscott
- MA, with something like the following message:
-
- TO ERR IS HUMAN.
- TO BLAME IT ON A
- COMPUTER IS EVEN MORESO.
-
- An old RISKS theme, worthy of reminder. PGN]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:41:30 +0100
- From: brunnstein@rz.informatik.uni-hamburg.dbp.de
- Subject: "Softkiller" as Arts?
-
- FLATZ, leading performance artist from Munich (Bavaria) recently advertised
- "SOFTKILLER - the first buyable computer art virus". For MS-DOS systems,
- you may buy a diskette (in limited version: 20 diskettes each 1,800 DM equiv.
- about 1,100$; or unlimited version: 500 diskettes each 300 DM equiv. 185$)
- which after start will display some FLATZ head on the screen while formatting
- the disk. Advertised shortly before xmas as "the ultimate donation for PC
- owners", FLATZ explicitly warns that SOFTKILLER overwrites disks on data and
- will overwrite itself after execution.
-
- After publication of this advertisement, Bavarian Criminal Agency became
- involved to analyse whether this might imply a crime of "computer sabotage"
- (German Penal Code, section 303b) according to which the destruction of
- programs and data which are essential for some person or institution will be
- prosecuted. In the analysis, FLATZ admitted that his software was not
- self-reproducing and therefore no virus. Moreover, his "attack on the
- computerworld" is mentioned in capital letters on the envelope. On the other
- side, distribution via BBS (though not foreseen by him) this warning is lost.
-
- At this time, no test or reverse engineering of SOFTKILLER has been done.
- Probably, it is technically not worth the effort. But with some probability,
- other artists may come up with similar "ideas". Happy,Healthy and Riskless 1993
-
- Klaus Brunnstein (University of Hamburg, North Germany, January 10, 1993)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 11:22:59 -0700
- From: mcclella@yertle.Colorado.EDU (Gary McClelland)
- Subject: Computer Theft of Criminal Records
-
- An AP story in the Boulder Daily Camera (1/8/93) reports a familiar story with
- a few new variations.
-
- A private investigator and two police employees have been indicted by a Denver
- grand jury for improperly obtaining the criminal histories of 8,559
- individuals. The Private Eye paid $3 to $5 per search and as much as $1,300
- per week (he kept great records!). The scheme unraveled when a co-worker of
- the police employee who was doing the snooping became angry that her colleague
- was spending so much time looking up names that she was falling behind in her
- regular work. So after seeing a "criminal history format" on her screen that
- she was not supposed to be using, the co-worker turned her in. A computer log
- revealed that on the day she was caught, she had run checks on 95 people! It
- turns out that a transaction recording system allowed investigators to
- reconstruct all 8559 criminal history searches. With such a great logging
- system it seems strange that no one noticed 8559 extra searches; if the
- co-worker hadn't got the extra work dumped on her, these folks would still be
- stealing criminal records.
-
- gary mcclelland, univ of colorado, mcclella@yertle.colorado.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 15:04:24 GMT
- From: Jonathan.Bowen@prg.ox.ac.uk
- Subject: Computer hacking of flight details "was illegal"
-
- Today's UK newspapers are full of the story on the British Airways (BA)
- "dirty tricks" campaign against Virgin and their successful suing by
- Richard Branson. Of particular relevance to "risks" is the following
- extract from the Independent newspaper (p6, 12 January 1993):
-
- ... The [BA] team were told that in future, their key task would be
- to access highly confidential information from their rival's
- [Virgin's] computer system.
- "We were shown how to get the information by tapping into our computer
- terminals in the Helpline office. We tapped in with our regular BA code
- and called up the Virgin flight numbers".
- In common with many other airlines, Virgin rents out a segment of a
- vast computer known as Babs - British Airways Booking System. Mr Khalifa
- and his colleagues simply tapped into it. "We could see on the Babs
- computer system when flight is open [sic], when it closed, if it was
- delayed and how many passengers were due to board".
- For the next nine months the Helpline hackers provided BA with critical
- information on Virgin's flights.
-
- Jonathan Bowen, Oxford University
-
- [A much longer version of this article was reported
- by Bob Dowling <rjd4@cus.cam.ac.uk>. PGN]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 11:48:27 EST
- From: horn%temerity@leia.polaroid.com (rob horn)
- Subject: Upcoming Telephone Number problems
-
- I don't recall mention on Risks of the impending problems with modem networks.
- The North American telephone numbering plan is being changed. This is going
- to gradually lead to problems for all the people with long distance numbers
- that are pre-stored in documents, files, programs, and modems.
-
- The change (as I understand it) is that the leading 1 digit should be used
- ONLY when dialing outside the area code, rather than the current system that
- imposes the need when dialing outside the local calling area. Then the area
- code restriction to the form x0x or x1x will be removed. I expect the change
- to be done carefully by the telco's so that mistakes will cause failure to
- connect rather than incorrect connection.
-
- Just to make things interesting, this change is being staged area code by area
- code. So for people who plan to fix their internal stored numbers you need to
- know when your area is being changed.
-
- Rob Horn hornr@mr.polaroid.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 12:34:43 PST
- From: jim@mpl.UCSD.EDU (Jim Easton)
- Subject: FAA prohibits pilot knowing GPS altitude in IFR flight
-
- I was recently informed that the KLN-90 GPS(Global Positioning System)
- navigation unit used in airplanes was designed so that the pilot cannot
- display the altitude the unit calculates from satellite data. It does display
- the barometric altitude and will issue a warning if the barometric altitude
- differs significantly from the GPS altitude.
-
- On asking Bendix/King why they would deny a pilot information already computed
- in the unit, the spokesperson explained that the calculated GPS altitude is
- often several hundred feet different from the "officially correct" barometric
- altitude, and that pilots might be so stupid as to try to fly by the GPS
- altitude - thus putting themselves at risk of a collision. Accordingly, the
- TSO(Technical Standards Order) by which the FAA defines approval of GPS
- navigation systems for IFR(Instrument Flight Rules) prohibited them from
- making GPS altitude information available to the pilot.
-
- Last month I was flying in the clouds in mountains and experienced a failure
- of the primary pressure altimeter in the aircraft. Cross checking a second
- pressure altimeter with the GPS altitude on a non-TSO GPS navigator verified
- that it was the primary altimeter that was wrong. Not having this information
- could easily have resulted in my death. I would much prefer to educate pilots
- about GPS altitude errors than to deny them the possibility of having what
- could be lifesaving information.
-
- Jim Easton, Box 889, Bonita, CA 91908 (619)548-0138
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 08:03:32 EDT
- From: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
- Subject: Risks of networks
-
- [I pulled the following from a recent TELECOM Digest, and it may very well
- have appeared elsewhere previously. But if ever there was an indication that
- the Internet is not the safe playground we like to think it is, it's this.
- Not only do we have to face new risks; we have to face new forms of old ones.
- -- Jerry]
-
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:34:36 -0500
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@proponent.com>
- Subject: Sci.electronics Phone Fraud!
-
- [Moderator's Note: Monty also passed this along for us today. PAT]
-
- From: larryc@shell.portal.com (Larry WB Ching)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: SCI.ELECTRONICS Phone fraud !!!
- Summary: A recent attempt to rip-off sci.electronics correspondents.
- Keywords: fraud, con artists, phone numbers
- Message-ID: <C077BC.GBn@unix.portal.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 23:16:23 GMT
- Sender: news@unix.portal.com
- Organization: Portal Communications -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091
-
- At about 6PM Thursday evening, I got a phone call. The operator said
- that he had a collect call to me from Charles Pooley in New York. The
- name was familiar, but I didn't remember exactly why. I said I would
- accept the call, but then the "operator" said the call couldn't get
- through because I had the call collect option blocked. He then said he
- could pass the call through if I gave him my calling card number. I
- said that I'd rather call Mr. Pooley myself, and could the "operator"
- give me Mr. Pooley's number. There was a pause, then a phone number
- with a San Jose area code! It didn't occur to me until later that , if
- the call was from New York, why was the call-from number (408) !??!
-
- I remembered that Charles and I had been corresponding on a topic from
- sci.electronics. I was lucky enough to have an old message from him lying
- around, and emailed him a message about my mysterious phone call.
-
- Charles Pooley replyed to me today -- turns out the guy tried the same scam
- on him too! But this time, the bogus operator said the collect call was from
- me to Charles! Charles was also wary, and didn't give the crook his calling
- card number.
-
- So - WATCH OUT! How this con artist chose my name and Charles' to try is
- beyond me. As far as public postings in sci.electronics, I don't think Charles
- and I had exchanged more than four public postings. Most of our correspondence
- has been via "private" email.
-
- This has definitely raised my paranoia level. If, out of the millions of
- public postings during 1992, someone should choose two correspondents who have
- exchange only a slight amount of messages .... I mean, why us? Or, is there
- a "boilerroom" operation going on, with a bunch of phony operators, armed with
- USENET listings -- calling people with this con?
-
- OH! - I may have put my phone number in one of my public
- sci.electronics postings - that's probably how the scamsters make
- their selection. Makes sense ...
-
- CHILDREN BEWARE!!!
-
- larryc@shell.portal.com
-
- [Moderator's Note: I note the public access site you use for Usenet
- (Portal Com) is located in area 408 (San Jose, CA). PAT]
-
- [Also sent to RISKS by Mike LeVine,
- levine%fidler.decnet@chinalake.navy.mil]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 7 Jan 93 14:35:00 EST
- From: "MARCHANT-SHAPIRO, ANDREW" <MARCHANA@gar.union.edu>
- Subject: version numbers
-
- Alas, Microsoft isn't the only software company sliding corrections in without
- notice -- there are (at least) two versions of Digital Research's (really
- wonderful) DR-DOS 6.0 floating around out there as well. In this case, the
- problem isn't quite so critical: the early version will not run Windows 3.1,
- apparently because of some hooks Microsoft inserted (rampant speculation).
- Windows 3.0 will run, however. The new version, which has been fairly freely
- distributed, but which has the SAME version number, corrects the Windows
- incompatibility (which some might call an advantage). DR-DOS users should
- check to make sure that their COMMAND.COM is dated 4-07-92 (or later?).
-
- For me, this has created no serious problems, but I can forsee
- situations in which failure to adhere to a reasonable numbering system
- could lead to all kinds of headaches -- "What version of our software
- are you using?" "Version 6.37a." "Yes, but WHICH version 6.37a...?"
-
- Andrew Marchant-Shapiro Depts of Sociology and Political Science
- USmail: Union College, Schenectady NY 12308 AT&T: (518) 370-6225
- INTERNET: marchana@gar.union.edu BITNET: marchana@union.bitnet
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:19:55 EST
- From: "Paul Robinson, Contractor" <FZC@CU.NIH.GOV>
- Subject: About Computer Expense...
-
- The following item appeared on the Operations List on Bitnet, and I thought
- I'd pass it on because it is unfortunately very true.
-
- Date: Sun Jan 10, 1993 1:09 am EST
- From: Mainframe Operations Discussion List
- EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414
- MBX: OPERS-L@vm1.cc.uakron.edu
-
- TO: Multiple recipients of list OPERS-L
- EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414
- MBX: OPERS-L@akronvm.bitnet
- Subject: Re: Some Good Old Standbys
-
- > I came across these in a Usenet post and found them quite relevant
-
- And one I saw in a humor column recently:
-
- If the automobile industry were like the computer industry
- over the past 30 years, a Rolls-Royce would now cost $5.00,
- would get 300 miles to the gallon, and once a year would
- explode killing all passengers inside!
- - tom
-
- mvac23!thomas@udel.edu lapp@cdhub1.dnet.dupont.com (work)
- {ucbvax,mcvax,uunet}!udel!mvac23!thomas
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:28:00 -0500
- From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
- Subject: Re: Large Foreign Exchange Rates (Kain, Risks-14.23)
-
- > So in the face of unreasonable people (dictators, etc.), perhaps we
- > need to use a floating point representation for the exchange rates
- > - but I do think that one decimal digit for the exponent should be
- > adequate.
-
- He walks right into it!
-
- According to the Guinness Book of World Records, in June 1946 the
- Hungarian pengo [two acute accents on the o] reached a valuation of
- 1 / 1.3e20 of the gold pengo of 1931. Now I don't know what *that*
- value was, but I think we can assume that the exchange rates with
- at least some other currencies must have exceeded 1e19.
-
- The German inflation of 1923 also went well past the 1e10 mark --
- no pun intended -- if I recall correctly.
-
- Mark Brader, Toronto utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 15:08:41 EST
- From: ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei)
- Subject: Re: Large Foreign Exchange Rates (R. Y. Kain, RISKS-14.23)
-
- >So in the face of unreasonable people (dictators, etc.), perhaps we need to
- >use a floating point representation for the exchange rates - but I do think
- >that one decimal digit for the exponent should be adequate.
- ^^^
- I wouldn't be too certain. I don't have it hand, but I recall an
- occasion when a South American currency (Paraguay?) depreciated to
- billions (43 billion?) to one versus it's gold equivalent (it's in the
- Guinness book of records).
-
- It is easy to underestimate the size of data a program may be asked to
- deal with, especially several years down the line. (See the Bank of New York
- problems, recorded here several years ago, when a program suddenly had more
- than 2^16 transactions/day). The cautious programmer will be generous to a
- fault. The best case I've seen was in a banking program where dollar amounts
- were stored as 96 bit integer quantities of pennies - this rolls over at
- nearly $8E26, or about 792 trillion trillion dollars.
- Peter Trei
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:04:30 GMT
- From: Dik.Winter@cwi.nl
- Subject: Re: Large Foreign Exchange Rates (Kain, RISKS-14.23)
-
- The lack of need for seven digit accuracy is correct, the single digit
- exponent is not. I have a German banknote of 1,000,000,000 Mark, barely
- enough to buy a bread by one month after issue. I have also seen German
- stamps of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Mark (Eine Trillionen Mark, German
- trillions of course). That was in the early twenties of course. And I add
- that at that time Germany was a democratic country, no unreasonable people
- were involved.
-
- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland
- home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 14:34:46 PST
- From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann@csl.sri.com>
- Subject: Correction on Computers, Freedom and Privacy 1993 (RISKS-14.21)
-
- Bruce Koball reports that the net address for cfp93 information and
- registration reported in RISKS-14.21 should have been cfp92@well.sf.ca.us.
- However, Bruce's address was correct, so this should not have caused anyone
- too much trouble.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 10:49:36 EST
- From: meadows@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Catherine A. Meadows)
- Subject: CSESAW93 call for papers
-
- CALL FOR PAPERS
-
- 1993 Complex Systems Engineering Synthesis and Assessment
- Technology Workshop (CSESAW '93)
-
- July 20-22, 1993
- Washington, DC
-
- This is a call for papers to be presented at the 1993 Complex Systems
- Engineering Synthesis and Assessment Technology Workshop (CSESAW '93)
- which will be held July 20-22, 1993. The theme of this year's workshop
- is integration. This workshop will explore issues related to the design
- synthesis and assessment of complex, computer-based, mission-critical
- systems. Many DoD related systems tend to be large, complex,
- fault tolerant, distributed, real-time, time-critical systems.
- Of interest is the development and enhancement of the system level
- ability to specify, capture, synthesize, analyze, model, prototype,
- test and implement such systems. The emphasis is on developing forward
- engineering capabilities; however, reverse engineering capabilities will
- also be addressed.
-
- TOPICS OF INTEREST
-
- INTEGRATION OF CAPTURE, OPTIMIZATION, AND ASSESSMENT TECHNOLOGIES
- INTEGRATION OF DEPENDABLE SYSTEM DESIGN INTO SYSTEM ENGINEERING
- INTEGRATION OF SECURE SYSTEMS DESIGN INTO SYSTEM ENGINEERING
- APPLICATION OF SIMULATION, MODELING, MEASUREMENT, METRICS,
- AND PROTOTYPING WITHIN SYSTEM ENGINEERING
- REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION, SPECIFICATION AND TRACEABILITY
-
- Authors are requested to submit (5) copies of the paper of no more than
- 7,000 words (5 pages or less). Include a cover letter listing the author(s),
- paper title, area of interest, and the name, address, FAX, telephone number,
- and e-mail address (if available) of the author who is responsible for all
- correspondence and preparation for the workshop by 15 April 1993. The
- accepted papers will be published as a Proceedings, which will be distributed
- within the Government and also made available to the general public.
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- Submission Deadline: 15 April 1993
- Acceptance Notification: 15 May 1993
- Final Paper Submission: 1 June 1993
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- Submission Address:
- Steve Howell
- Naval Surface Warfare Center
- Code B40
- 10901 New Hampshire Avenue
- Silver Spring, MD 20903-5000
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- e-mail inquiries: showell@nswc-wo.navy.mil
- phone inquiries: 301-394-3987
- fax inquiries: 301-394-1175
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