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\F2\CARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY
\CCOMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
\CSTANFORD UNIVERSITY
\CSTANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305
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					September 5, l973



Consulate General of India
215 Market Street
San Francisco, California 94105

Gentlemen:

\J	This is to introduce Mr. Todd Wagner whom we plan to send to the
Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur for a few weeks to help them
install a computer which we gave them.  The history of the matter is as follows:
When I visited the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur in 1969, they
were interested in the possibility of getting a time-sharing computer
system to supplement their computer facilities.  (A time-sharing computer
system allows each of many users of a computer to behave as if he had
a computer of his own albeit of smaller power.  Time-sharing is the way
more and more computers are being used, and it will be almost universal
in the future, but it is developing slowly).  I remarked that the Institute
for Mathematics in the Social Sciences at Stanford had a time-shared PDP-1
computer system that was very advanced in certain respects (it had 12
keyboard and display terminals), but they planned to replace it, because
it isn't very fast.  They said they would like to have it, and it turned
out that the Institute was indeed willing to give it to them.  

	After a number of difficulties, the computer arrived in India, but
some additional work had to be done here to provide correct drawings, etc.,
and eventually it turned out that the person I had counted on to go to India
and help with the installation was unable to do so.  Mr. Wagner is his replacement
and is eager to go.  However, he should go quickly so he won't miss much of
the fall quarter at Stanford where he is a graduate student in computer
science.

	I hope you will help expedite his trip.  I will be glad to answer
any questions you may have.  My telephone number is (415)321-2300 ext. 4430.\.



					Sincerely yours,



					John McCarthy
					Professor of Computer Science
					Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory