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==April 12, 2002 - Victor Laxman==
Greeting from the DRC. It seems I’m the first board member to post on the new message boards, so let me take this opportunity to welcome newcomers. I’ll explain a bit about this message board, and myself.

In recent DRC meetings, we’ve reached the conclusion that it would be beneficial for us to discuss the D’ni restoration project in a more public forum. These message boards are our first attempt to do just that. Our discussions will be much more public, and you’ll get a chance to see some of the challenges and issues that we all face in restoring D’ni.

My name is Victor. I’ve known about D’ni for almost seven years. Being an acquaintance of Dr Watson, I found out about D’ni from him and of course accepted his request to join in the restoration back in ’97.

My areas of expertise are electrical and computer engineering. My primary responsibility has been in the area of D’ni technology, in particular, reverse engineering to: 1) make D’ni things work, 2) make D’ni things work better, 3) make D’ni things work with surface things.

Currently the KI consumes most of my time. It’s truly an amazing system, with the actual KI acting as a simple terminal to a larger D’ni host. We got it working, we got it working in English, and now we’re trying to see just how much it can do. Interesting work, but I often get distracted with things like simply supplying light to certain areas that are being restored.

I look forward to meeting many of you. And I’ll try to make time to direct some of my posts on the board to answer pertinent questions.

vic