Bob, John Power suggested I send this to you to distribute to the international categories mailing list, if you think that is appropriate. Alan -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -------- Original Message -------- Oggetto: [CSP] Petition: Boole's House at Grenville Place Data: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:05:54 +0000 Mittente: Barry O'Sullivan <b.osullivan@cs.ucc.ie> A: constraints@yahoogroups.com, csp@carlit.toulouse.inra.fr Colleagues, First, I would like to apologise to those who receive this message more than once. Now to the point: Earlier this month George Boole's house on Grenville Place in Cork - where he wrote "An Investigation of the Laws of Thought" in 1854 - suffered severe damage. I've established a petition to seek support for any initiatives that can be undertaken to repair/restore the building urgently. The purpose of the petition is to help decision makers in this matter gauge the strength of support for repairing this building. This is particularly important in the context of a weak economy in which finance for projects like this can be difficult to find. It would be wonderful if it were possible to restore the house to the point where it could be the site of a museum to George Boole and his work. Signing the petition takes a matter of seconds. To sign, please visit: http://www.4c.ucc.ie/aiai/ Click the 'Boole Petition' tab and then click on the link "Click here to sign petition" which is after the statement, immediately above the list of signatories. If you prefer to use a short-cut: http://4c110.ucc.ie/aiai/boole-petition Please circulate this message to your colleagues and friends locally, nationally and internationally. The petition is hosted on the web-site of the Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland which is, in turn, hosted at 4C in UCC. Finally, I'd like to thank David Devlin, PhD Student at 4C, for his excellent help with setting up the web-site. Kindest regards, Barry O'Sullivan ___ Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C) Web: http://osullivan.ucc.ie -- Postal Address: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Room 2.15, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK. Telephone Number: +44-131-650-2716, Fax Number: +44-131-650-6899, Email: A.Bundy@ed.ac.uk. Web Page: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bundy/ [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]