Conflict of Interest

Over last year I have done consulting with

a) DoE on ASCI and Review of Los Alamos
    I have no contracts with DoE and I don't see this as having special features
    It does exploit my expertise
    This may not continue as I have no idea why DoE sometimes
    pays consulting and sometimes not

b) USRA on the "Lockheed Martin CSOC Project"
   (http://www.usra.edu)
   This is an advisory role for NASA on
   "Consolidated Space Operations Contract"
   This is base Information Technology and no specific
   connection to any contract or project. I do not
   do research in "Space Mission Control"

c) JPL on "Information Technology for Earth science"
   This used to be unconnected with any contract but
   now we have an "HPCC for Earthquake Simulation" grant
   from NASA (new start) with JPL as lead.
   I have no planned consulting in near future with JPL and
   I asked them to be aware of this potential conflict.
   They will get back to me (and then Indiana) about this.

I helped set up two companies in area of Collaboration and distance
training

d) WebWisdom.com. I am careful to be entirely passive here as this company licensed all the
   technologies we developed at Syracuse in this area.
   I have an agreement from Syracuse making it clear that I can proceed freely after
   leaving Syracuse as long as I just deal with ideas and not specific software
   dedveloped at Syracuse

e) Anabas. This was set up in September 2000 and got some initial VC funding
   I have a small equity stake (1%) and do some consulting on "technical direction"
   I am also a member of Board of Directors
   I would expect Anabas to be interested in licensing software from my research
   group if we develop interesting capabilities. I think this would happen around 6
   months from now when
   a) Anabas has raised second round of funding (if it doesn't the situation will be moot!)
   b) We have some software of significance -- Note I had to start all software from
   scratch in this area at FSU so I don't yet have systems of sophistication I used to have.
  
   I had a similar "conflict of interest" with WebWisdom.com at Syracuse and I signed over any
   royalties (none of which ever happened) to University. In fact as discussed, in any case
   I do not want personal royalties but rather asked that any such go to Laboratory.
   
   Anabas only works in area of collaborative training and it does not affect my
   work on "computing portals" (The Gateway effort) 
   I believe that Anabas consulting uses expertise gotten from research funded by NCSA and perhaps some
   with the new MSU contract.