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∂AIL Mr. Michael Benefiel↓Foreign Commercial Service
↓American Embassy Tokyo↓A.P.O. San Francisco 96503∞

Dear Mr. Benefiel:

	The most recent books on artificial intelligence
are 

%2Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man%1, Margaret Boden.  Basic Books,
  New York, l977.

%2Brainstorms%1, Daniel Dennett.  Bradford Books, Montgomery, Vt., l978.

%2Artificial Intelligence, an MIT Perspective%1. Edited by Patrick Winston
  and Richard Brown.  MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., l979.

%2Principles of Artificial Intelligence%1, Nils J. Nilsson. Tioga Publishing
  Co., Palo Alto, CA, l980.

The first is semi-popular, the second is in philosophy, and the
last two are texts.  I enclose a reprint of my own.

	I will transmit your request to Dr. Shortliffe, and if I
go to Tokyo I will call you.

.sgn

PS  Of course, I didn't say that computers can't acquire common
sense, merely that they don't have it now and it would be difficult.