Memorial contributions may be sent to the MIT Museum, K&E Slide Rule Collection, 265 Massachusetts Ave, N52, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Leighton Lee III, who owns the Lee Company in town and put up the seed money for the Turtle project, said he got interested in the inventor several years ago when he bought a Bushnell family house, a circa 1678 building on Route 1 in Westbrook, to house his slide rule collection.
The work presented in this paper concerns the definition of a repository schema for managing business rules, taking into account the objectives (a) to facilitate the rule collection process, (b) to assist the transition from analysis to design and implementation of the information system, and (c) to support business change once the new system has been delivered.
One of those to exhibit at the event was fashion designer Leanne Clulee, showcasing her 'Fifty Centimetre Rule' collection.
New York, for instance, specifies rules for collection and storage of breast milk, and requires that donors be screened and periodically re-evaluated in a process overseen by a physician.
"The current rules allow collection for personal use up to 1.5kg, but this is ineffective and arbitrary when the number of people collecting is taken into consideration; let alone the impossible task of enforcing this on commercial collectors.
They have been joined by 200 fishery scientists from around the world, who urged Parliament in an open letter "to move away from direct fleet subsidies," and aim the money at "compliance with management rules, data collection, scientific research and stock assessments".
