For starters, who was this "T. R. Bashkow"
who called the
meeting? Some googling last week indicates to me that he has
an engineering award named after him, and that he does
not have a wikipedia entry.
I did a little googling earlier this weekend and I couldn't find
much. T.R. Bashkow is "Theodore", he was at Columbia (emeritus
there). For J. DeFelice I could find nothing. There are lots of
hits for DeFelice in general, and a few academic papers in biology
for a J. DeFelice but I couldn't find much computer science or
bell labs related.
Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/