Introduction:
This page examines The Angstrom Foundation Aktiebolag (AB).  Information presented here is based on my correspondence with Swedish individuals and authorities and my personal research.  The examination of The Angstrom Foundation AB is ongoing, so updates are likely.

I would like to thank the excellent faculty and staff at Uppsala University, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV), and the Embassy of Sweden in Washington, D.C., for their time and efforts in providing factual information.

I would also like to thank the many people world-wide who aided in my search for contact information for The Angstrom Foundation AB.

Subject:
The Angstrom Foundation Aktiebolag, a limited, privately-held stock company.  Registration number: 556229-9395.  Date of registration of current company name: 6 February 1990.

Date of registration of previous company name:
Aros National Business Corporation Aktiebolag was registered on 1 November 1983.  The company was sold to its present owners in 1990 and its registered name was changed to The Angstrom Foundation Aktiebolag.

Company address:
Sandstensvägen 16
161 39 Bromma
Sweden

Registered office:
Ångströmsstiftelsen
Kyrkvägen 28
841 31 Ånge
Sweden

Bromma, Sweden, is located a few kilometers outside of Stockholm.

Ånge, Sweden, is located near the geographic center of Sweden.

The Web site for The Enterprise Mission, founded by Richard C. Hoagland, incorrectly states that The Angstrom Foundation AB is located in Stockholm.

Board of Directors:
Marianne Märtha Kathinka Ångström and Helene Marianne J. Ångström, both since 1990.²  Signatory powers for the company are held by these two directors.

Deputy Member of the Board:
Lars Tord Folke Jonasson Ångström, since 1990.

Founder:
Lars-Jonas Ångström, a Swedish author and economics lecturer.

Primary purpose of company:
The Angstrom Foundation AB was founded primarily to preserve Mr. Lars-Jonas Ångström's ancestral premises in Ånge and to make it available as a mini-conference center to researchers and scientists.

Foundation directory listing:
I have been unable to find references to The Angstrom Foundation AB in published foundation directories.

Web site:
The Angstrom Foundation AB does not have a Web site.  The Angstrom Foundation AB never had a Web site.

Anders Jonas Ångström and the Ångström memorial medal:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences commissioned a memorial medal in 1886 to honor Anders Jonas Ångström (born 1814, Lögdö, Sweden; died 1874, Uppsala, Sweden), a Swedish physicist, astronomer, and professor of physics at Uppsala University (1858-74).  The medal was struck by the Royal Mint of Sweden, which holds the original molds for the medal in their archives.

The following paragraph is an excerpt from a short biography on Anders Jonas Ångström published by the Norwegian Physical Society (hypertext link added):

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Despite the importance of his work he was not immediately recognized either abroad nor even in his own country.  In part it was probably because he was a very modest and reserved person.  But eventually his works were valued.  He became a member of the Stockholm and Uppsala Academies, and in 1870 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London from which he received the Rumford Medal in 1872.

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Ångström's Prize:
In the very early 1900s, Uppsala University received a donation from the family and friends of the late Anders Jonas Ångström.  The donation called for the yield from the donation to be used as an annual science prize, and was to consist of money and a silver Ångström memorial medal.  The name of the prize in Swedish is "Ångströms premium," which probably translates into English simply as Ångström's Prize.  The medal was to be obtained from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and used by Uppsala University for the science prize with permission from the academy.

For years the Ångström's Prize has been awarded to young physicists at Uppsala University as a reward for outstanding scientific work.  Physicists compete hard for the prize, a prize that is respected within the university.  Recipients of the prize are selected by an awards committee comprising of Uppsala University science professors.  Usually, the head of the Department of Physics has the responsibility to request a silver Ångström memorial medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, referring to the statutes of the Ångström donation.  Uppsala University has never awarded the Ångström's Prize to anyone outside the university.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences does not allow its medals to be used for any purpose without permission from the academy.

Ångström Medal:
The only publicly known recipient of The Angstrom Foundation AB's "Ångström Medal" award is author and lecturer Richard C. Hoagland, author of The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever (see 4th rev. ed. (Berkeley: Frog Ltd., 1996), pp. 414-415).  In August 1993, in Washington, D.C., Mr. Lars-Jonas Ångström presented Mr. Hoagland with the Ångström Medal award, also known as the "International Angstrom Medal for Excellence in Science."  As far as I know, Mr. Hoagland's Ångström Medal award consisted of a medal and a handshake from Mr. Ångström; no certificate, diploma or monetary prize was associated with it.

The actual medal that Mr. Hoagland received with his Ångström Medal award was an Ångström memorial medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the academy has stated that The Angstrom Foundation AB did not have permission to use the academy's medal for their Ångström Medal award.

The Angstrom Foundation AB's Ångström Medal and Uppsala University's Ångström's Prize are two separate awards both using the same medal, the Ångström memorial medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Mr. Lars-Jonas Ångström, a descendant of Anders Jonas Ångström, had good intentions when he awarded Mr. Hoagland with the Ångström Medal.  However, Mr. Ångström's academic credentials are unknown to me and I do not know if The Angstrom Foundation AB enlisted qualified scientists to properly review Mr. Hoagland's work before awarding him with the Ångström Medal.

Ångström Laboratory:
Uppsala University named the Ångström Laboratory after Anders Jonas Ångström and Knut Ångström, who both served as professors at Uppsala University.

Name recognition:
The Angstrom Foundation AB is known to the UFOlogy and skeptic communities by virtue of Richard C. Hoagland's promotion of his Ångström Medal (with help from enablers Art Bell and Mike Siegel).

In June of 1996, Mr. Hoagland spoke in Ånge.  Among those in attendance was Anders Persson, then vice-chairman of UFO-Sweden.

Until about 1998, The Angstrom Foundation AB was little known to the general public and academia outside of Ånge and Sundsvall, Sweden.  In 1998, Mr. Lars-Jonas Ångström made his estate in Ånge, Ångströmsgården, available to the staff participating in The Global Classroom Partnership (GCP) conference, which was hosted that year by Bobergsskolan, the senior high school in Ånge.

Also located in Ånge, Ångströmsenheten is a computer education center.

Summary:
The Angstrom Foundation AB exists in some form, possibly even as a legally registered foundation in Sweden, but it is obscure and certainly not "prestigious."  A Nobelstiftelsen or Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse it is not.

The Angstrom Foundation AB's use of the Ångström memorial medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as a component of the 1993 Ångström Medal award to Richard C. Hoagland was an unauthorized use of the academy's medal.

Recipients of the Angstrom Foundation AB's Ångström Medal award would be mistaken if they were to believe that their award establishes for them fraternity with Uppsala University's Ångström's Prize recipients.

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The founder of The Enterprise Mission, Richard C. Hoagland, is recipient of the Angstrom Medal, which is a high considered reward in almost the same caliber as the Nobel price!³

...His model of Hyperdimensional Physics, based on the math discovered at Cydonia & throughout our Solar System has garnered him a _scientific_ medal (the Angstrom medal in 1993) which is no small feat, and was based on good science, this is a fact anyone can verify....⁴

1993.  August 27 Dr. Richard hoagland receives the Angstrom medal for excellence in Science in Washington from Sweden's Angstrom Foundation.  He is the first non-Swedish person ever to receive it for his work related to hyperdimensional physics which he pioneered through the Mars Mission.  Obviously foreigners respect his work more than the U.S. government which is trying to dismiss him.  It was a great triumph for Dr. Hoagland.⁵  (Editor's note: Mr. Hoagland does not hold a doctorate.)

Hoagland is more than your average boob with a philosophy to tout.  He is a former NASA scientist, former CBS TV science advisor to Walter Cronkite and he won the 1993 Angstrom Science award.  He's also compiled a very capable team.  His old buddy Sir Arthur C. Clarke is also quoted on the cover of the 2001 (5^th edition) "I'm convinced that we have discovered life on Mars."  (You notice he didn't say "ancient life?")⁶  (Editor's note: Mr. Hoagland was never a NASA scientist.)

Where is YOUR Angstrom medal?

You can't get one because you don't have enough angst to power your flabby dendrites to come up with a novel theory concerning energy.  All you can envision is more tanker loads of black goo coming into Houston to maintain the national fix on "freedom".  Have you yet felt the pinch from the time of troubles in Venezuela?

You are jealous of Hoagland!!⁷

18 May 2000: Letter from Mr. Lars-Jonas Ångström and general information about The Angstrom Foundation AB.

23 May 2000: Another Letter from Mr. Lars-Jonas Ångström and additional information.

29 June 2000: I received an e-mail message from Kai-Inge Hillerud, Head of Administration at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.  The academy strongly disagrees with Mr. Lars-Jonas Ångström's claim that he had an agreement with the academy that granted him authority to use the Ångström memorial medal as an award to whomever The Angstrom Foundation AB decided to honor.  The Secretary General of the Academy, Professor Erling Norrby, has officially notified The Angstrom Foundation AB that it is not allowed to use the academy's Ångström memorial medal for their Ångström Medal award.

There is no real controversy concerning Mr. Lars-Jonas Ångström's ordering and paying for Ångström memorial medals.  This was allowed by the academy with the understanding that the medals would be donated to Uppsala University and used by the university for its Ångström's Prize.

7 July 2000: Mr. Hillerud replied to my question concerning the Latin text on the reverse side of the Ångström memorial medal.  According to Mr. Hillerud, the medal carries the following text: Socio Meritissimo Regia Academia Scientiarum Suecia.  "Regia Academia Scientiarum Suecia" stands for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, as does the abbreviated "REG. ACAD. SCIENT. SUEC." on the reverse side of the academy's Nobel Prize medal for Physics and Chemistry.

24 July 2000: E-mail message to Mr. Lars-Jonas Ångström.

26 July 2000: Reply from Mr. Lars-Jonas Ångström.

30 July 2000: Proposed solution to the Angstrom Foundation AB problem.

31 July 2000: Mr. Lars-Jonas Ångström's response to my proposed solution.

7 August 2000: I have removed the phone and fax numbers for Ångströmsstiftelsen from this page.

21 October 2000: The amount of money awarded to recent Ångström's Prize recipients may be more than I was previously led to believe.  The curriculum vitae for Dr. Lars Nordström states a sum of "16 000 SEK" for his 1994 Ångström's Prize, which would be equivalent to about USD$1,590 today.

11 November 2000: A fine example of a properly organized, focused, and viable foundation is the Canadian-based Gairdner Foundation.

18 November 2000: An excerpt from Mike Siegel's interview with Richard C. Hoagland on Coast to Coast AM.

7 March 2001: Art Bell introduces his guest, Richard C. Hoagland, on Coast to Coast AM.

23 March 2001: Again, Art Bell introduces his guest, Richard C. Hoagland, on Coast to Coast AM.

12 December 2001: Google Groups has recently completed their integration of 20 years of Usenet postings into their search index.  From this expanded Usenet archive, I have been able to access Usenet messages posted before 1996 concerning The Angstrom Foundation AB.  On 10 May 1994, a "Press Kit for The Monuments of Mars (long)" was posted to the Usenet by "Neil Reams" (nar07@cas.org).  The next day, Peter Linde of Lund Observatory, Lund, Sweden, commented on Richard C. Hoagland and the Ångström Medal.

29 December 2001: The 27 August 1993 Ångström Medal announcement.  The author of this document is unknown to me.

30 December 2001: I have viewed my copy of the 1994 expanded version (95 minutes) of John Anthony West's documentary, The Mystery of the Sphinx, which originally aired as a hour-long NBC Special on 10 November 1993.  Richard C. Hoagland is introduced late in the program as a "science writer and winner of the Ångström Medal for Excellence in Science for his research in the Mars investigation."  The documentary is interesting, and hosted by Charlton Heston, but it is often too Atlantean-minded for its own good.

5 January 2002: Alien Quest.com published what is claimed by them to be Richard C. Hoagland's answers to some of Robert A.M. Stephens' ill-conceived questions.  Question #25 by Mr. Stephens: "Exhaustive research shows there is no 'Angstrom Medal.'  Can you explain this?"  Mr. Hoagland's answer (June 2001): "A picture is worth a thousand words - and it's much easier for functional illiterates like you to comprehend.
http://www.enterprisemission.com/images/rich-ang.jpg"

8 January 2002: Another robotic promotion of the Ångström Medal, once more by Art Bell.

I am no longer confident that the Ångström Medal was awarded to Richard C. Hoagland on 24 August 1993.  It is possible that he received the award on 27 August 1993.

9 February 2002: Currently teaching at Uppsala University, Prof. Olle Eriksson was "Awarded the Ångströms premium for well performed work in Physics 13/1 1993," according to his curriculum vitae.

25 June 2002: Another robotic promotion of the Ångström Medal, this time by George Noory.

26 June 2002: Naomi Longson has written an on-line petition: "Should NASA credit Richard C. Hoagland?"

5 August 2002: Name correction for the Deputy Member of the Board of The Angstrom Foundation AB: The name should read "Lars Tord Folke Jonasson Ångström" for "Lars Tord Folke Jonasson (Lars-Jonas) Ångström."

10 August 2002: I have, until five days ago, mistaken Lars Tord Folke Jonasson Ångström for his father, Lars-Jonas Ångström.  I regret the error.  With the publication of the Eight Edition of this page on 5 August 2002, I have included links to Web pages that provide biographical data on The Angstrom Foundation AB board members and the founder of the company, Lars-Jonas Ångström.

9 December 2002: Writing for the Phoenix New Times, Quetta Carpenter is impressed by Richard C. Hoagland's Ångström Medal award.  From Carpenter's 5 December 2002 story, "To Spite the Face":

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Given his involvement with unorthodox scientific research, Hoagland is surprisingly difficult to throw into the crackpot category. His lengthy dissertations are reminiscent of the Lone Gunmen from The X-Files, but his résumé doesn't read like a typical conspiracy theorist. He was the recipient of the Angstrom Medal for Excellence in Science in Stockholm, Sweden, a colleague of Carl Sagan, and a former science adviser to CBS News and Walter Cronkite.

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Richard C. Hoagland was never a colleague of Dr. Carl Sagan.

19 November 2003: Dr. Jinghua Guo, an expert in soft x-ray spectroscopy, received the 1997 Ångström's Prize from Uppsala University.

A link from the "paranormalist" Web site Flagship1:

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Richard Hoagland (UFO Enthusiast & Astro Researcher)

He is the founder of The Enterprise Mission, and is also noted for having received the Angstrom Medal (an award for excellence in science) from the Angstrom Foundation, in Stockholm. He is constantly showing up on Art-Bell's Coast to Coast AM and his findings have made him among the most respected in the paranormalist as well as scientific communities.

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Bill Taitano critiques the design of Mr. Hoagland's Web site (c. April 2003):

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A Poorly-Designed Web Site

The website for review can be found at the URL:
http://www.enterprisemission.com

The poorly-designed web site I am discussing is called "The Enterprise Mission" and was founded by Richard Hoagland, recipient of the Angstrom Medal for Excellence in Science, former science advisor to NASA and CBS, and co-creator of the poineer plaque.

Although Dr. Hoagland is a distinguised scientist, I think he has little knowledge of web site design and that he instructs his web designer to follow his vision of what the web site should look like, not taking into account his users....

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Again, Richard C. Hoagland does not hold a doctorate.  However, he is the distinguished recipient of the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize for astronomy.

11 February 2004: An ignorant man, Ted Twietmeyer, wrote: "...On the enterprisemission.com website you can see these astounding images courtesy of Richard Hoagland, dedicated scientist and researcher and winner of the Angstrom Science award. In addition to the famous face and pyramid on Mars, here are more images:..."

24 March 2004: At long last, Mr. Hoagland's friend, Dr. Robin Falkov, a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and a Homeopathic Physician, has signed Naomi Longson's on-line petition (see the above 26 June 2002 addendum entry).  The 198th signature comments:

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Why is NASA afraid to give Hoagland his well deserved credit for publishing "The Tidal Paper" in 2001? Why does the spaced.com Britt interview refuse to link to the verification provided by Hoagland and intentionally left out of their interview? Why has CNN blindly followed spaced.com? Who's pulling the strings here? Whatever happened to a free press?

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23 August 2004: Stanford University Associate Prof. Anders Nilsson received the 1990 Ångström's Prize from Uppsala University.

29 August 2004: Dr. Olle Björneholm received the 1995 Ångström's Prize from Uppsala University.

10 November 2004: This Morning Forums poster, The PCT, defends his man, Richard C. Hoagland, on 19 July 2004:

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This is the man that JTS has tried to accuse of pseudo-science and quackery. A brief look at his credentials shows the reality of who the real quack is . Hoagland is a NASA adviser/ Was awarded the Angstrom Medal for achievements in Science/ Is science adviser to CBS News and to Walter Cronkite/ He was the designer of the Pioneer Space probe plaque communicating the existence of humans. Among much else.

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Hoagland was the designer of the Pioneer plaque?  Wikipedia provides a more accurate account of the history of the plaque.

John Brennan, posting at The Merkur Forum on 15 October 2004:

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Don't know when part 4 is coming, but that's one hell of a website! Richard was the youngest-ever curator of an astronomical observatory, the NASA liason for Walter Cronkite during the Apollo missions, is a winner of the Angstrom Science Award, wrote a book called "The Monuments of Mars", and showed me Shuttle footage of particle beam weapons being tested in space when I hosted one of his presentations here in Tempe a few years back.

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The "astronomical observatory" Mr. Brennan mentioned in his post is the Springfield Science Museum, home of the Seymour Planetarium, featuring the 1937 Korkosz Projector.  The museum received a donated 20-inch telescope and a rooftop observatory in 1972, some years after Hoagland was associated with the museum.

10 December 2004: Dr. Anders Sandell, currently a Swedish Natural Science Research Council (NFR) researcher at Uppsala University, received the 1996 Ångström's Prize.

1 January 2005: Dr. Karoline Wiesner, currently at the University of California at Davis, received the 2004 Ångström's Prize.

15 May 2005: Posting to a long thread concerning the artificiality of Iapetus on the Space.com bulletin board, Thinefreewill attempts to clear the air regarding Mr. Hoagland on 23 March 2005 (my comments are in [red text]):

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Greetings Everyone!

It seems here we have an issue to settle, regarding the credibility of Richard Hoagland and his proposals.

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Now, let's clear the air here a bit about Richard's past accomplishments, with a -brief- listing:

- Space science musem [sic] curator (at the age of 19!)  [Please visit the last link in the 10 November 2004 addendum entry.]
- NASA Consultant
- Science Advisor to Walter Cronkite and CBS News
- Co-proposed the message from mankind, the plaque aboard Voyager I0, as acknowledged by Sagan in SCIENCE (175 [1972], 881)  [Please visit the Wikipedia link in the 10 November 2004 addendum entry.]
- Nominated for the Peabody Award for journalism.  [Incorrect.  Please visit the last link in the 10 November 2004 addendum entry.]
- Nominated for a White House 'Point of Light' award, for excellence in space education.
- Was the FIRST to receive the International Angstrom Medal for Excellence in Science.  [All too easy.]
- Was the first to propose the possibility of life in the oceans of Europa, based on NASA's data from Voyager fly-by's.
[Search your feelings.You know it to be not true.⁸]
- Engineered the Mars Tidal Model years ago, which proved the past existance [sic] of OCEANS on Mars.  [Co-written with Michael Bara, this was a self-published paper released to the Web in 2001.]

Some of those are major accomplishments, which any scientist out there would LOVE to be able to have as their own bragging rights!

[...]

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Part two of the long Space.com Iapetus thread can be found here.

16 August 2005: Posting at the TEST Bulletin Board on 6 September 2002, microhydrin wrote:

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...It was the decoding of the mathematicaly encoded message of the monuments of mars that garnered science writer Richard Hoagland the Angstrom Medal, the first time this medal had been awarded to a "non-scientist", if I'm not mistaken.

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I see no need for quotation marks, microhydrin.

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• WWW: The McDaniel Report, page xix (1993)
• Usenet: Angstrom gives his side of the story
• WWW: Uppsala Universitet: Stipendie handbok (Adobe PDF)
• WWW: Uppsala Akademiförvaltning - A J Ångströms stipendiestiftelse
• WWW: Richard C. Hoagland and Europa: Background Information
• WWW: Hoagland and Europa - My Response to Michael Bara
• WWW: Hoagland and Europa - Bara's Response
• WWW: Message Three to Michael Bara (July 30th, 2001)
• WWW: AR1 - Early Rays
• WWW: Scientists study evidence of life on Mars
• Usenet: Re: RICHARD C HOAGLAND HAS A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
• Usenet: Re: Debunking R.C. Hoagland, not a tough task... :)
• Usenet: Re: From Whitley's Journal-Abour the Cancellation of "Dreamland"
• Usenet: Can any nonDoctors read an MRI
• Usenet: Re: Angstrom Medal
• Usenet: Re: UFO HIT BY MISSILE?
• WWW: Is there human life on Mars?
• WWW: Stirring Cauldrons! (was Re: BD and jargon)

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Notes:
^1. Richard C. Hoagland, Coast to Coast AM, 17 November 2000.
^2.  The names of the members of the Board of Directors and the Deputy Member of the Board are from the Certificate of Registration for The Angstrom Foundation AB, a public legal document filed with the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV).
^3. Thomas N. Larsen, Unsolved mysteries: Are there alien artifacts on the Moon and Mars?, circa 1997.
^4. "A reader" from Portland, OR U.S.A., Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever, 18 August 1999.
^5. John Craig (a.k.a. Echan Deravy), Research: The Mars/Moon Mission of Richard Hoagland.
^6. Laura Seymour, Will The Face Say "Cheese"?, The Voice, Vol. 10, Issue 23, 19 June 2002 (Adobe PDF).  About Ms. Seymour from AUSU: "Laura Seymour first published herself, at age 8.  She has since gone on to publish a cookbook for the medical condition of Candida.  She is working toward her B.A. (Psyc)."
^7. James Askew, replying to a post by "ebnelson," Algorithms BBS, 19 December 2002.
^8. Benton C. Clark, Sulfur: Fountainhead of life in the Universe?  Life in the Universe, a conference held at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California, 19-20 June 1979.  Material presented by conference participants was published by MIT Press in 1981, edited by John Billingham.

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