Data network raises monopoly fear

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Planners and private competitors say that Advanced Network and Services Inc, an IBM-MCI joint venture, has an unfair advantage among data-transmission companies. Advanced Network and Services itself is a non-profit corporation, but it owns a for-profit subsidiary, ANSCO+RE Systems Inc, that sells network services. Advanced Network and Services manages NSFnet, a National Science Foundation network that interconnects research centers and universities. Planners and competitors complain that Advanced Network and Services is in a favored situation. At stake is the future of the planned national data network, which would involve data 'superhighways' and would eventually connect video-transmission services and electronic libraries to homes, businesses and schools. The United States needs, say the planners, fair competition and a level playing field.

Electronic computers, Office machines, not elsewhere classified, Telephone communications, exc. radio, Management services, Admin. of general economic programs, Management, Usage, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Joint ventures, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Fiber optic networks, Political aspects, Monopolies, Activism, Political protest, MCI Communications Corp., MCIC, Networks, Competition, Political Issue, NSFNET (Computer network), Advanced Network and Services Inc., ANS CO+RE Systems Inc.

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Gates gift will create a biotech program

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William Gates III, founder and chairman at Microsoft Corp, gives $12 million to the University of Washington to start a department of molecular biology there. The university wants Leroy Hood, a biologist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), to lead the new department. Hood, who has considerable experience in the area of the confluence of computer science and molecular biology, will bring researchers and projects with him from Caltech. Gates himself says this is an area of research in which he has long had an interest.

Prepackaged software, Computer integrated systems design, Officials and employees, Computer software industry, Software industry, Microsoft Corp., Donations, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Gates, Bill, Study and teaching, MSFT, Molecular biology, Biology, Washington, University of, Hood, Leroy

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