VLSI industry-university interaction

The major issues coupling industrial manpower/technical requirements to university teaching/research programs will be discussed, including such vital areas as: the facets of VLSI constrained by personnel shortages; technical contributions universities can make in VLSI, outlining specialities versus generalist activities at boundaries between traditional disciplines . . . Also to be addressed are such key factors as unrestricted versus contract forms for industrial funding of university research and proprietary information rights, idea ownership and publishability . . . Additionally, panelists will debate the degree of priority universities should give to industrial personnel retraining.