The SMART Club is run by a committee elected by the members each autumn. In addition to the usual tasks involved in running a membership organization of this sort, on behalf of the members, they engage in dialogue with the Government, DTI, RDA, and other public bodies to attempt to generate a solution for some of the more difficult matters of common concern. The current committee is:     Alan Bennetts (Chairman) Alan is MD of Bay Systems. The company won a SMART award for a magneto-strictive actuator design and application. The everyday activity of the company is the supply of equipment and consulting services in the area of noise and vibration. Recent achievements of note have been the building of a semi-anechoic chamber that achieved 68dB of isolation and was completed in 8 weeks and to budget. Alan is a member of the Institute of Acoustics, The Society of Automotive Engineers and The Society of Environmental Engineers.     Chris Wilde (Vice Chairman) Chris has retired as a practicing dentist and MD of Interdental, a company with interests in the development of new ?white? tooth repair and replacements composites based around cyanoacrylate compounds. He is Vice-Chairman of the Club.     Tim Crocker (Assistant Secretary) Tim is a Director of 3D Instruments which has interests in attitude sensing and in high power DC-DC conversion for motor vehicle drives and industrial control. He has taken the lead in the club in dealing with policy and financial issues with HMG.     John Edgley (Member) John is the winner of a SMART award for the development of a new method for building light aircraft structures. He successfully completed a prototype glider and is now planning to develop a two seat version. He designed the Optica slow flying observation aircraft which achieved some success and wide national publicity in the 1980s. John has been a Committee member since the start and Chairman of the SW SMART club from 1997 to 2000.     Clive Green (Treasurer) Clive is MD of Quartzlock Ltd who R&D, produce and sell globally, LF Off Air, Quartz, GPS, Rb and H Atomic frequency references + hi-res (le-17) frequency and (50fs) phase measurement and distribution systems. Some are world leaders. One of only 3-4 calibration labs world-wide, commercially, at this level.     John Mitchell (Member) (I.P. guru) John is MD of AllVoice Computing plc who specialise in speech recognition products and software development. AllVoice exports via worldwide patenting and other Intellectual Property. AllVoice has negotiated licenses with US companies such as Dictaphone and IBM. However, John has spent many years successfully litigating its patent rights against other organisations in Massachusetts, Delaware (Dragon and Lernout & Hauspie) and has a current case in Texas (v Scansoft). John has established the Patent Reform Group (www.patentreformgroup) and advises Government as part of its Patent Enforcement Project. This was set up following his efforts to establish a Patent Defence Union. John provides practical IPR advice and support to club members and other SME innovative companies.   Elections to the committee are held at the autumn meetings, and very soon afterwards the new committee details will be posted on the website. Contact details for all of the committee can be found under their company?s listing. Principal contact points for the club are : Alan Bennetts Tel none smart@smart-sw.co.uk Chris Wilde Tel 01884 255690 c.e.wilde@btopenworld.com