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∂30-APR-74 1028 THS,MJH
John--Since you hadn't started on my thesis yet, I've repossessed
your copy. By the time you get back, I should have the next version
out, containing the changes Binford wanted and having fixed the errors
he and I spotted. That should save you some time, by reducing the
number of versions you have to read. Jo
∂29-APR-74 0936 CAR,HPM
There is glut of cart pictures on your desk. I would appreciate getting
back the ones you don't want. Hopefully you didn't need color.
∂27-APR-74 1533 ACT,REG
I regret to report that the system crashed without having reached 200 hours of
uptime. A bad W102 in the IBM channel/multiplexer caused the system to crash
after only 8 days 5 hours and 27 minutes. Maybe we'll have better luck next week.
∂26-APR-74 2354 S,WD
Call Susie between 6 pm and 7:30 pm or after 11 pm.
It is important and moderately urgent. whit
∂26-APR-74 1607 APG,DCL
JOHN: I HAVE A COUPLE OF MODERNIZATION CHAGES TO THE LOGIC QUALS.:
REPLACE THE OUT OF DATE REF[19] BY REFERENCES TO HOARES WORK ON
SEMANTICS OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES:
HOARE C.A.R.;"AN AXIOMATIC BASIS FOR COMPUTER PROGRAMMING" Comm.ACM
12(1969)pp576-583.
HOARE C.A.R.;"PROCEDURES AND PARAMETERS: ANAXIOMATIC APPROACH",
Springer Verlag Lecture Notes inMath. 188 (1970)pp102-116.
these references are relevent to both sections 4.1 and 4.2 of the examination
-David
∂25-APR-74 1347 THS,MJH
Re my thesis: How are you coming on reading it?
∂25-APR-74 0004 1,CCG
QUAL QUESTIONS?
CORDELL
I DONT TRUST COMPUTER PRIVACY ON THIS
∂23-APR-74 1907 APG,DCL
Is the draft of that letter o.k.,or do you have some
suggestions for changes? I guess its your move-David
∂23-APR-74 1110 P,JRA
I didn't mean to imply that computation is just SDIO, but replacing as
much computation as possible with data structures I think is beneficial.
My three-day experinece with programming in such a style says its
intuitively easier, and more readable. Perhaps using "canned" axioms
for d.st. instead of derivations in proofs of programs will be possible .
∂23-APR-74 0448 P,JRA
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MY IDEA? GOOD, BAD OR UGLY.
∂22-APR-74 0941 1,JAF AT TTY76 0941
I am not quite settled but can give a probability < .1 that I will
stay beyond the summer. Jerry F.
∂19-APR-74 1613 DOC,TOB
I would like support for one student for
a limited time--3-6 months for analysis
and design of force sensing for manipulators.
Tom
∂19-APR-74 1239 network site ISI
Date: 19 APR 1974 1238-PDT
From: LICKLIDER at USC-ISI
Subject: AI and AP
cc: PEH at SRI-AI, MCCARTHY at ISI, A310AN02 at CMU-10A,
cc: PHW at MIT-AI, AMAREL at ISI, CHEATHAM at ISI,
cc: Fredkin.MAC at MIT-MULTICS, A310AN02 at CMU-10A, Licklider
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After several months of getting acquainted with the
Information Processing Techniques Office of ARPA and devoting
much of my attention to the ARPA Network and to internal
organization and procedures, I am coming to a point at which
I shall want to get as deeply as I can into the ARPA programs
in Artificial Intelligence and Automatic Programming. Steve Crocker,
who has been serving as the IPTO Program Manager for AI and
AP, suggested that I assume the PM-ship of the
two areas, and I am acting on that suggestion. That does
not mean that I shall assume the two areas as my own special
provinces in IPTO for the duration, but it does mean that I want
to understand the problems and issues of the two areas as deeply as
I can and that I want to do everything I can---and ARPA
can---to ensure the existence of conditions for great
enthusiasm, effort, and productivity and to match the research efforts
to the Defense context within which ARPA operates. What I
have in mind is in no sense a crash effort. I want to talk with
you and work with you over a period of time, understand the situation
as you see it and express my perceptions of it to you, and develop
a set of relationships between your groups and ARPA that will support
and facilitate excellent research in an excellent way.
I wish I could assure you that this undertaking would be my
only major commitment for the coming months, but there are, of course,
several other things. What I can assure you is that this
will have a very high priority, and that I will give full attention to
any and all issues that you raise, advices that you give me. Except
when travel takes me away from communication facilities, I shall do my
very best to give quick responses to communications from you.
Having been in ARPA three and a half months now, I have gotten
a pretty clear picture of where IPTO and AI and AP stand in the ARPA
scheme of things. The present standing is not bad, and I think I see
how, over a period of time, it can be made very good. I am eager to
begin working with you toward that end.
Regards
Lick
P.S.: Inasmuch as I am onl leave from M.I.T., I shall not
be a part of the ARPA decision processes relating to M.I.T. Lick
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∂19-APR-74 1230 network site ISI
Date: 19 APR 1974 1230-PDT
From: LICKLIDER at USC-ISI
Subject: After several months of getting acquainted with the
cc: HART at ISI, MCCARTHY at ISI, A310AN02 at CMU-10A, PHW at MIT-AI,
cc: AMAREL at ISI, CHEATHAM at ISI, Fredkin.MAC at MIT-MULTICS,
cc: A310AN02 at CMU-10A
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Information Processing Techniques Office of ARPA and devoting
much of my attention to the ARPA Network and to internal
organization and procedures, I am coming to a point at which
I shall want to get as deeply as I can into the ARPA programs
in Artificial Intelligence and Automatic Programming. Steve Crocker,
who has been serving as the IPTO Program Manager for AI and
AP, suggested that I assume the PM-ship of the
two areas, and I am acting on that suggestion. That does
not mean that I shall assume the two areas as my own special
provinces in IPTO for the duration, but it does mean that I want
to understand the problems and issues of the two areas as deeply as
I can and that I want to do everything I can---and ARPA
can---to ensure the existence of conditions for great
enthusiasm, effort, and productivity and to match the research efforts
to the Defense context within which ARPA operates. What I
have in mind is in no sense a crash effort. I want to talk with
you and work with you over a period of time, understand the situation
as you see it and express my perceptions of it to you, and develop
a set of relationships between your groups and ARPA that will support
and facilitate excellent research in an excellent way.
I wish I could assure you that this undertaking would be my
only major commitment for the coming months, but there are, of course,
several other things. What I can assure you is that this
will have a very high priority, and that I will give full attention to
any and all issues that you raise, advices that you give me. Except
when travel takes me away from communication facilities, I shall do my
very best to give quick responses to communications from you.
Having been in ARPA three and a half months now, I have gotten
a pretty clear picture of where IPTO and AI and AP stand in the ARPA
scheme of things. The present standing is not bad, and I think I see
how, over a period of time, it can be made very good. I am eager to
begin working with you toward that end.
Regards
Lick
P.S.: Inasmuch as I am onl leave from M.I.T., I shall not
be a part of the ARPA decision processes relating to M.I.T. Lick
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∂19-APR-74 0427 network site BBN
Date: 19 APR 1974 0728-EDT
From: LICKLIDER at BBN-TENEX
Subject: Communicating with You
cc: McCarthy, Licklider
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John, I have tried many times to get you by phone. The
Stanford exchange is usually 'busy'---the only institutional exchange
outside the airline circle I've ever known to behave that way. This
morning I'll be away (at APL of JHU). This afternoon I'll try
again to get you---and suggest you try me, too, at 202-OX4-5921
and/or [home] 703-243-7897.
Incidentally, how can I communicate with Luckham via the
net, and does Green have a directory for mail at SU-AI? (If so,
what initials?)
I am very sorry not to have gotten back to you for more
discussion. The pressure has been keeping me too busy here, too
busy on minor matters. Am determined to break loose
and pay attention to the larger issues.
Regards
Lick
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∂19-APR-74 0000 ESS,JMC (reminder)
request extension
∂18-APR-74 2001 CAR,HPM
On my desk you will see a prototype rubber band engine capable of managing
an indefinite rubber band supply and producing a constant torque until the
last bit of rubber has been used up. Interestingly, it loses energy in a
very systematic way, and (apart from frictional losses) wastes 1/4 of the
energy needed to wind it up.
∂18-APR-74 1109 1,QIB
PROF. ZADEH TELEPHONE TODAY AT 11:10 AM WITH THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE:
INRE. THE A.I. DEBATE - TERRY WINOGRAD HAS BEEN ASKED TO SERVE ON THE PANEL
AND HAS ACCEPTED - PROF. ZAHEH ALSO PLANS TO ASK PETER HART OF SRI TO SERVE
ON THE PANEL. THE DATE FOR THE DEBATE IS MAY 9TH AT 4:00 P.M.
PROF. ZADEH'S TELEPHONE #'S 642-4959 OR 642-1024. QUEENIE
∂17-APR-74 0700 network site ISI
Date: 17 APR 1974 0658-PDT
From: MSW at USC-TIP
Subject: NEWS
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SORRY. IT IS BAD NEWS. WE ALL (INCLUDING EF) WHERE UNDER
THE IMPRESSION THAT THIS TIME WE ARE TALKING ABOUT NEXT YEAR (74/75).
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∂16-APR-74 0937 1,QIB
RICHARD MANUCK OF THE COMPUTER SCIENCE LIBRARY WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU WANT TO
RENEW BOOK BORROWED, "MATHEMATICAL LOGIC AND SUMMARIZED THEORIES" BY ROGERS -
IF NOT - HE WOULD LIKE IT RETURNED. THANK YOU QUEENIE
∂16-APR-74 0302 network site BBN
Date: 16 APR 1974 0605-EDT
From: MEIR at USC-TIP
Subject: CIT APPOINTMENT
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HELLO, I TRIED TO SEND YOU THIS MESSAGE WHILE BEING LOGGED AT
SAIL, BUT THER¬E IS A BUG IN THE SYSTEM THAT PRODUCE CONT. C
AT RANDOM THUS FORCES ME TO GET OUT OF "SEND".
I HAVE RECEIVED ALL YOU R MESSAGES. THE DELAY OF YOUR SEMINAR WAS WELL
PLANNED WHILE I WAS AWAY. I∀ DOES NOT LEAVE MUCH TIME εFOR
APPOINTMENT PROCEDURES IN CASE THA∀T THE PLACE (CIT) WILL
BE LOOKING ATTRACTIVE. IF THIS MATTER IS ACTUAL WE SHOULD TAKE ALL
THE NECESSARY STEPS NOW - BEFORE YOUR VISIT. IF YOU AGREE TO SUCH A PLAN
I WILL HAVE TO SE¬YOU SOON, AND TO DISCUSS THE APPROACH.
IT SEEMS THAT YOU ARE USING AP¬E, IS IT BACK ALIVE?
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∂10-APR-74 1620 IML,BO
New FIXIML on system. Corrects an error in echoing of bucky bits when in
telnet (no edit) mode. Please reload your machine.
∂10-APR-74 1012 1,JAF
I will be here Wed until 1 and all Thur afternoon, then go East. Jerry F.
∂10-APR-74 0920 CAR,HPM AT TTY61 0920
The search for an alternate one isn't holding up the present one,
but the fact that the RCA amplifier module has developed an
intermittent fault might. It looks like we'll have to send it back
for repair or replacement.
∂10-APR-74 0317 CAR,HPM
I visited SRI today, ostensibly to copy the literature about small
electric vehicles that Steven Coles collected for the now defunct
SRI robot project. While there I mentioned that we would be interested
in buying (or whatever) any parts of Shakey that weren't needed,
escpecially the TV transmitter and reciever. He (Coles) was enthusiastic,
stating that it would make him much happier to see them furthering
robot research than collecting dust, and he even offered to include
Shakey's camera (which has remote focus and iris controls). We then
went to see Peter Hart with this proposal. He was considerably less
excited about it, and stated that there would undoubtedly be a use
at SRI for the camera, but the only objections he could come up with
concerning the transmitter were that a) since the robot was government
property, it might be hard to arrange the transfer (the video link
is not EDP equipment, he said) and b) It would probably take us a
long time to get an FCC permit to run it. He also said (it seemed
half-hearted to me) that he would look into it. I threatened him
with a call from you. The rumor about Shakey going to the Smithsonian
is just that, and virtually nothing has been done about it.
∂09-APR-74 2016 ACT,REG
I believe that we should remove the restriction whereby network users are not
allowed to use APE or HOT.
I suggest that our practice in this respect is inconsistent with our policy of
providing neat hacks for the net at low cost to ourselves.
Moreover, since we are apparently not pursuing this matter with the AP, we
ought not claim "negotiations in progress" (like Nixon) as the reason we
don't allow network users on.
∂08-APR-74 1421 SDR,MSW
MEIR AS ED ME TO SEND YOU A NOTE REQUESTING AN AN ABSTRACT
OF YOUR CALTECH TALK (FOR ADVERTISING).
IF YOU MAIL IT TO "MSW", I WILL RECEIVE IT.
THANKS, SCOTT ROTH.
∂08-APR-74 1134 1,QIB
PLEASE CALL DR. DEBRA, EXTENSION 3388, THANK YOU, QUEENIE
∂7-APR-74 1144 network site ISI
Date: 7 APR 1974 1144-PDT
From: MEIR W¬INSTEIN at USC-TIP
Subject: CIT VISIT
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WE WOULD PREFER IF YOUR SEMINAR WILL BE GIVEN ON AP.24, THIS WILL ALLOW
US TO PUT IT ON CIT CALANDER. IT IS TOO LATE FOR THE AP.17, AND WE WILL
NOT BE ABLE TO DISTRIBUTE THE MESSAGE OF THE TALK AS IT IS DONE BY THE
CALANDER.
IN CASE THAT YOU CAN'∀T GIVE IT ON THE 24, LET'S NOT DELY IT FURTHER AND
WILL PLN TO HAVE IT ON AP.17.
DURING YOUR VISIT I WOULD LIKE YOU TO MEET SOME OF KEY FACULTY MEMBERS.
THUS IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU WILL BE HERE AT L¬LEAST FOR A FULL DAY BEFORE OR AFTER THE SEMINAR.
PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR DECISION SOON, EITHER BY MESSAGE ON THE NET
(MSW) OR BY PHON. I WILL NOT BE IN NEXT WEEK AND PER BRINCH-HANSEN WILL
TAKE CARE OF ALL COMMUNICATION.
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∂4-APR-74 0254 network site BBN
Date: 4 APR 1974 0556-EDT
From: MEIR WEINSTEIN at USC-TIP
Subject: SEMINAR AT CIT
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THIS IS THE OFFICIAL INVITATION TO GIVE A SEMINAR AT CIT. THE SEMINAR
WILL BE GIVEN AS AN INFORMATION SCIENCE SEMINAR. THE REGULAR TIME FOR
THESE SEMINARS IS WED. AFTERNOON AT 4PM. AT PRESENT YOU CAN CHOOSE
ANY WED. FROM THE 17-TH OF APRIL TILL END OF MAY. I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE
YOUR SEMINAR AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AS ED FREDKIN'S DECISION SEEMS TO
DEPEND SOMEWHAT UPON YOUR VISIT.
IN CASE YOU WILL DECIDE TO GIVE THE SEMINAR ON AP. 17, WE WILL NEED
THE TITLE BY TOMORROW. FOR ANY DATE SELECTED, WE NEED THE TITLE BY TH.
TWO WEEKS AHEAD. THIS IS IN ORDER THAT THE NOTICE WILL APPEAR
IN THE CIT CALANDER OF ENENTS. WE WILL NEED ALSO AN ABSTRACT, WHICH IS
PRINTED ON A SPECIAL NOTICE AND SENT TO A REGULAR DISTRIBUTION. THE ABSTRACT CAN BE SENT LATER.
AS I MENTIONED TO YOU IN OUR LAST CONVERSATION, THE FACULTY ASKED THAT
THE SUBJECT OF THE TALK WILL BE CONCERN WITH SOME OF YOUR RECENT TECHNICAL
WORK.
YOUR REPLAY CAN BE MAILED TO MSW AT YOUR OWN SYSTEM. IF YOU HAVE ANY
QUESTIONS THAT SHOULD BE BETTER DISCUSSED OVER THE TELEPHON, LET ME
KNOW AND I WILL CALL YOU AT A PREDESIGNATED TIME.
WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD FOR YOUR SEMINAR.
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∂01-APR-74 2114 DOC,AJT
please point me at the latest version of your Lighthill comments. Will they
be published soon? Thanks. arthur