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I am trying to help a professor at a local university equip a graduate computer science class with some software. The class is a follow-on to a more theoretical course in Multimedia Systems. This course will offer extensive hands on in designing multimedia and also in analyzing multimedia performance( since it is a graduate course in a computer science department.) The professor is willing to write a report, have the students do some beta testing, etc. But because they are a state university they do not have much money for software. The professor is looking for some contacts in Autodesk to see if this company would be willing to donate software in exchange for something to be determined. They would particularly like Animator and 3D Studio. The class will be working on projects such as preparing the best performing diskette based multimedia titles. I am sure that these students will develop some clever techniques that could be shared in exchange for the software.