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U.S. - Soviet collaboration on computer education of mathematically talented
high school students.

	This is a potential project to which both sides make equal and large
contributions.  Americans have more experience with computers, but it is my
impression that more first class Soviet mathematicians and scientists have
paid attention to the education of high school students.  It is also more
suited for collaboration than computer education of high school students
in general, because the latter is extremely dependent on difficult to alter
institutional traditions and on the availability of money for hardware and
the kinds of hardware that are available.  Programs limited to mathematically
talented students will be smaller, and it will be easier to make them
comparable.  It is will also be easier to involve scientific organizations
that are more used to international collaboration than are the much larger
educational organizations.

	In so far as there are immediately interested people in other countries,
they might also be involved with less trouble.