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∂28-FEB-75  0615		network site ISI
 Date: 28 FEB 1975 0614-PDT
 From: CARLSTROM at USC-ISI
 Subject: IU WORKSHOP
 To:   JMC at SU-AI
 cc:   CARLSTROM
 
 THANKS FOR YOUR NOTE.  I'VE TALKED WITH BINFOORD ON THE PHONE  AND
 I THINK EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE.
 
 REGARDS,
 DAVE C.
 -------


∂27-FEB-75  1537		PNT,DCL
 YES-MARCH 11 AND 13 ARE FINE. WHAT IS THE ROOM NO. OF YOUR CLASS?

∂27-FEB-75  0808		E,ALS
 The trouble is with the MAIL-E interface in that MAIL does not pass on to E
 the information that E needs. I Will look into it however and see if I can
 get it fixed.	ALS

∂26-FEB-75  1355		1,MG
 Subject: Next meeting of discussion group
 
 The next meeting, at which Richard Waldinger  will talk, is on monday
 3 march at 3:30 p.m.in PARC. 
 
 After  that we run out  of volunteers. Would anyone  like to describe
 what they  have been  up to  lately or  what  their current  problems
 and/or unimplemented future plans are? 
 
 Mike

∂26-FEB-75  1337		THE,AJT
 since you appear to be leaving on the 7th., it is essential
 that you let me know whether you can make it to my committee
 meeting on Wed. 6th. provisionally at 2:00. please let me know
 a.

∂25-FEB-75  1631		NS,ME
 I looked at the proposal again but have no suggestions.
 I'll be gone till Friday night.

∂24-FEB-75  1515		THE,AJT
 Hintikka can't come(aaarrrgh!) to the Thursday meeting. Other possible
 times are: any day next week in the morning, or between 2 and 4. Let me
 know a possibility list and I'll try to achieve a magical correlation with
 other people's.
 sorry about all this... arthur.

∂24-FEB-75  1211		1,QIB
 TENTATIVE:  A.I. SCIENCE LUNCHEON WITH LEDERBERG, FACULTY CLUB, 12:00,
 MARCH 10 - MAY I CONFIRM?

∂24-FEB-75  1206		1,QIB
 REMINDER:  TAXI WILL PICK YOU UP AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE FACULTY
 CLUB AT 1:00 TO TAKE YOU TO THE AIRPORT - 2-25 (TUESDAY).
 
 PROF. FEIGENBAUM NEEDS A COPY OF THE LETTER ON THE ARPA PRINCIPLE
 INVESTIGATORS MEETING IN MARCH.
 

∂24-FEB-75  1152		VCG,DCL
 Were we supposed to meet today (Mon. Feb-24) to continue?
 CC: JMC;TOB;RWW;TW;DCL

∂23-FEB-75  2224		1,DBX
 I have put a copy of my write-up on recursion to your desk. I hope it
 is more or less correct now. We are going to discuss it with Richard
 and Bill to-morrow and I hope we can talk on Friday, which will be my
 last day here.

∂23-FEB-75  0055		S,LES
 It is now Sunday Morning and I still have not received any contributions
 for the ARPA PI Meeting Summary, except for one written by Brian McCune
 on behalf of Cordell.  I should be pissed off, but it is hard to get
 worked up when this kind of performance has become standard.
 
 I have hacked something together in ARPAPI.75 [D,LES].  It is mainly the
 list of bullets that I compiled several months ago.  Perhaps if you show
 it to them they will be moved to write something more up-to-date.
 
 According to the Meeting Announcement, we were supposed to send it to
 FEINLER @ NIC by last Thursday.  Hopefully, it will happen early this
 week.
 
 I will try to check in by phone on Tuesday, or sooner if there is a
 phone at the place where we are staying.

∂21-FEB-75  1811		network site SRI
 Date: 21 FEB 1975 1811-PST
 From: BOYER at SRI-AI
 Subject: scientism
 To:   jmc at SU-AI
 
 I wonder if there is still a plan for a meeting tonight at
 your house on the subject of a bay area scientism club.
 -------

∂20-FEB-75  0900		network site RAND
 JOHN,
 CAN IVAN SUTHERLAND AND I SPEND SOME TIME WITH
 YOU NEXT TUESDAY AFTERNOON TO DISCUSS ISSUES
 WITH REGARD TO THE COMPUTING PROCUREMENT COMMITTEE.
 WE CAN MEET YOU AT THE AI LAB OR THE UNIVERSITY.
 REGARDS,
 PETER WEINER

∂11-FEB-75  1225		1,MG
 John Darlington (a collegue of Rod Burstall who's at present visiting
 IBM Yorktown  Heights) would like to visit Stanford  and SRI in a few
 months time.  Richard Waldinger tells me that SRI can only offer $150
 and as this  won't cover the cost was wondering  whether Stanford had
 any money available which could be combined with the above to produce
 a reasonable sum. 
 
 Mike. 


∂08-FEB-75  1719		1,SGK
 Call David McQueen 513-8787295 office 255-3098. Feferman has folder.


∂11-FEB-75  1231		network site ISIA
 Date: 11 FEB 1975 1229-PST
 From: NBS at USC-ISIA
 Subject: TIMESHARING COOP
 To:   JMC at SU-AI
 cc:   NBS
 
 DEAR DR. MCCARTHY,
 
      IREAD A COPY OF THE PROPOSAL FOR A TIMESHARING COOP,
 AND IT SOUNDS VERY INTERESTING TO ME.  THEREFORE I WOULD
 
 BE WILLING TO AND INTERESTED IN TALKING ABOUT IT WITH
 OTHER PEOPLE, AND IN HELPING TO SET IT UP.
 
      I AM AN UNDERGRAD AT STANFORD, AND HAVE A FAIRLY EXTENSIVE BACKGROUND
 
 IN COMPUTING.
 
 I CAN BE REACHED VIA THE FOLLOWING:
 
 ARPA-NET       NBS@ISI   (PLEASE START MESSAGE WITH "FOR ED FRANK"
 
 SLAC-TRIPLEX   SUGGEST TO EHF$EA
 
 UNCLE SAM
 LETTER SINK     ED FRANK
                P.O BOX 2008
                STANFORD, CA
 
 MA BELL        415-321-6143
 
                 SINCERELY,
                 ED FRANK
 -------


∂11-FEB-75  1407		DOC,TOB
 There are two positive contributions by
 Don Gennery.  As a course project, he made
 a search for calibration solution that was
 successful, where Hannah had been unsuccessful
 before.  At SRI, he made a horizontal 
 rectangle bounder; JMT's opinion is that he
 did a good job.  That he had good ideas, was
 competent and a good executor, hard worker.
 Along the lines of Perkins, not a deep thinker
 but reasonable and competent.
 There is of course the negative information
 about not working his first year here.
 Tom


∂10-FEB-75  0812		P,JRA
 HI: I'd like to talk to you  soon for about 15 min.

∂08-FEB-75  0139		100,100: sgk @ SAIL
 Have invited Schroeppel & c. to stay here the nite of the 22nd.  Say if OK soon pls.


∂05-FEB-75  1503		100,100: S/WD @ SAIL
 	I don't know if you found the note.  Telco was here about the phone problem
 while you were away and claims that you need an interface for you Phonemate.


∂05-FEB-75  1415		1,ELF
 READ MADMAD.MAD LAST PART[1,ELF]


∂05-FEB-75  1132		1,MG
 Subject: Change of time or place of meeting. 
 
 I've just  discovered that  the conference  room at  SU-AI is  booked
 every monday between  4:15 and 5:15. Thus either the time or place of
 the next meeting of  the program reasoning  group must be changed.  I
 propose that it be moved to tuesday  18 feb. (the day after it was to
 be).  Please let me know if  this is O.K. If  it isn't maybe we could
 still have the meeting on monday but at SRI or PARC? 
 
 I'll confirm the new time and place in a day or so. 
 
 Sorry about this. Mike


∂04-FEB-75  1202		P,JRA
 cs206?

∂04-FEB-75  1137		1,MG
 Subject: Future meetings of Program Reasoning Group. 
 
 The next meeting is  in the conference room at Stanford  A.I. Lab. at
 3.30  p.m.  on mon.  17 feb. Balint Domolki  (who's visiting the  A.I.
 Lab. from Hungary) will talk. 
 
 The meeting following that will be at Xerox PARC at 3.30 p.m. on mon.
 3 march.  Richard Waldinger will talk. 
 
 The debate described in previous  messages (which was conceived of by
 Bob.  Boyer)  is  to be  organanised  by  Richard  Waldinger. Further
 suggestions concerning it should be sent to Richard at SRI. 
 
 Sorry about the  vast list of names  that non-SU-AI people have  been
 getting at  the top of  previous messages -  I had no  idea they were
 appearing!  I hope I've now found the right hack to suppress them. 
 
 If you would  like to  stop getting these  messages, or  if you  know
 someone who'd like to start getting them, please let me know. 
 
 Mike

∂04-FEB-75  0758		100,100: sgk @ SAIL
 Heave left your camera by the imlac.  I bought more film for you, and
 then proceeded to take nine shots...  Will get more eventually.  TNX
 Essay debugging is progressing despite E's efforts to drive me to the
 nut house.


∂03-FEB-75  1102		THE,AJT
 what do you know about the funny Schloss Laxenburg placein Vienna - can
 you give me some idea of th sorts of things that they're doing, and of 
 your own opinion of the place. thanks. arthur

∂03-FEB-75  0951		1,MG
 Subject:  **** FREE COFFEE AND COOKIES ****
 
 Today's meeting of the program reasoning group - in which J moore
 will discuss the new improved LISP theorem prover - will be at 
 3.30 in SRI's I building room s109 (the keidan room).
 
          ************************************
          * There will be  FREE refreshments *
          ************************************
 


∂02-FEB-75  1839		1,PMK AT TTY106   1839
 John,
 Would you have some time to talk with me tomorrow? I saw you when
 I came in tonight but you looked tied up, then you disappeared!
 
 I plan to be here most of tomorrow, so if you have some free
 time would you please let me know.
 
∂19-FEB-75  1939		DOC,TOB
 I heard that you are about to hire someone
 for some purpose, and I would like to express
 my interest that hand/eye be able to replace
 some of the four people who have been lost
 in the last year; I would like to see those
 places kept available.  The lab is now almost
 entirely a theoretical lab.  The three areas
 MTC,etc		Hand/Eye	Natural language
 JMC		TOB		TW
 CCG		PDQ
 DCL
 MG
 WG
 ZM
 RWW
 
 JRA
 AC
 RF
 

∂19-FEB-75  1547		1,BES
 THERE IS A NEW INSTRUCTION THAT CAN BE TYPED IN YELLOW[WAVE].  THE VICE
 CAN NOW BE OPERATED WITH THE TWO INSTRUCTIONS:
 	VOPEN time  or VCLOSE time
 WHERE time IS THE DURATION THAT THE VICE OPERATION IS TO TAKE ( IN 
 SECONDS ).  THE FORM OF INSTRUCTION "DO VCLOSE TIME" OR "DO VOPEN TIME"
 DOES NOT WORK.
 CC: @HAL[HAL,HE]:TOB,RCB,RF,PAUL%SRI,RHT%SAIL,[HAL,HE],JMC,JH,BO,BES,VDS,DDS

∂18-FEB-75  1841		1,DEW
 I have rewritten my patterns using LOC.  They are on PRIM.FOL[1,DEW]
 if you care to see them.  I'll later remove some of my comments about
 pc not working so well and mention additions of conditionals, etc.
 I agree that pattern recognition should not calculate occupiability.
 I hope patterns will describe all the concepts that will be passed
 around in the tree search and used by the goal setting mechanisms.
 We might want a goal of "make Q5 occupiable by a knight" so these 
 functions will also be part of the language.  What will be a pattern
 and what will be a function will probably be mostly intuitive rather
 than well-defined.  I'll think abouta way for patterns to interact and
 then come and talk to you about it.   Dave
 p.s.  I dropped a Psych course I was taking and now only have 4 credits of
 courses so I signed up for 5 credits of r+r.  I'll also talk to you about this.

∂18-FEB-75  1041		R,AJT
 thanks for your note. It is not entirely clear to me how talk about
 computers &c is relevant to the problems that Chapter discusses. There is
 no a priori reason to assume that information processing language can
 solve EVERY problem under the face of the sun. I believe that there are
 `old fashioned' philosophy problems that are still interesting, even if they
 have been raked over quite a bit. I shall be glad to chat about it, of course!
 arthur.
 p.s. Hintikka is out of town this week - how about THURSDAY of NEXT week for
 committee meeting?

∂17-FEB-75  1827		BPM,BPM
 TO: SAIL blood donors
 
 FROM: BPM
 
 RE: Upcoming donation
 
 The SAIL Blood Donor Group is scheduled to give blood at the American
 Red Cross--Stanford University Blood Center  on Tuesday and Wednesday
 (25-26 February) of next week.  The Blood Center is open on both days
 from 9 am to 1 pm and again from 3 pm to 7 pm.  
 
 I need to know the following from  each person who said they would be
 willing to donate as part of the SAIL Blood Donor Group:
 
 (1) Whether or not you plan to give during our scheduled times (those
 listed above).   [If you don't,  you can go  on your own whenever  is
 most  convenient for  you.   Just call  ahead (493-1363)  to  make an
 appointment and tell them you are donating as part of the SAIL  Donor
 Group.  Also let me know if you donate.]
 
 (2) What your blood type is.  [Don't tell me anything unless  you are
 absolutely sure.]
 
 If you are planning  to give during the scheduled times,  I also need
 to know the following:
 
 (3) During which period you would like to donate (Tuesday am, Tuesday
 pm, Wednesday am, or Wednesday pm).
 
 (4) Whether or not you need transportation from the AI Lab and back. 
 
 If everyone who originally  signed up donates, we will  probably have
 only  two scheduled donation times  per year (the  minimum allowed by
 the Red Cross). 
 
 The Blood Center is located at 3330 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto 94304,
 which is across from the VA Hospital.  The best way to get there from
 the AI  Lab is  to take  Page Mill to  Foothill, right  onto Foothill
 approximately  half a mile to Hillview,  left onto Hillview about two
 blocks, and left into the Blood Center parking lot. 
 Thanks, Peggy

∂12-FEB-75  0952		1,PAW
 Gary Morgenthaler called, asks you to call (408)257-6550 ext 392.

∂11-FEB-75  1343		network site AI
 Date: 11 FEB 1975 1642-EST
 From: ERIK at MIT-AI
 To: jmc at SU-AI
 
 I am starting to make plans for the summer (the arrangement with MIT is for nine months).
 Would you be interested to have me at Stanford June 15 - August 15 or a subset of that 
 period?  Erik
 

∂11-FEB-75  1152		1,MG
 Subject: Error in last message
 
 In the last message from me the "friday" should be "monday".Sorry - Mike.

∂11-FEB-75  1131		1,CDR @ AI
 	The top machine of the GE line is the sameas the
 645; namely MULTICS.  There is a completely compatible LISP 1.6
 that runs on MULTICS at M.I.T.  Extensive domumentation is available
 if desired.
 	There may be a misprint in your review of Lighthill
 which appears in the current A.I. Journal issue.
 
 I enjoyed reading the review  very much and generally agree with
 your analysis.
 you say "In the first and third cases, the belief that any problem
 solving ability and knowledge could be fitted into the formalisms led to published
 predictions that computers would achieve certain levels of performance in certain time scales.
 
 I was wondering if "third" should not bhave been "second" since I personally do not
 recall having published such predictions although I vaguely recall that some of
 the resolution theorem provers may have.  I would be interested
 to know if this is indeed a misprint.
 
 		Thanks,
 
 		Carl

∂11-FEB-75  0356		1,DCL
 John--Bob Floyd told me he would put the matter of my
 SRA or Adjunct appointment on the agenda for the 
 next Department meeting if both you and I requested it;
 so I did. Would you request it please.

∂10-FEB-75  2232		1,PDQ
 What are your plans for student use of FOL?
 In particular, how many students, what time of day, etc?

∂10-FEB-75  2127		1,FXB
 I couldn't decide whether you were looking for a horse doctor or a dentist from your
 message.  It did seem that you were looking into the mouth of something.
 				-Forest

∂10-FEB-75  1940		1,MG
 Subject: Next meeting of Discussion-Group
 
 The seminar room at the A.I.lab. here has  become free on fridays and
 so the time and place for the next two meetings will be as originally
 arranged.  (i.e.Balint Domolki at  3:30 on mon. 17 feb. in  SU-AI and
 Richard Waldinger at 3:30 on mon. 3 march in PARC)
 
 Sorry about the confusion.Mike

∂04-FEB-75  0834		P,JRB AT TTY122   0834 @ CMUA
 John,
 We understand that you have a file of essays, thoughts and work in progress.
 If you have an essay on AI (trends, projections , etc. say)   that you
 would like some distribution for we would be happy to publish it in the current
 issue which we are now striving to bolster the technical content of.  If you don't
 have something in a form that you like for this issue(this week).  We would 
 welcome such a submission from you at any time.
                                  Regards,
                                   Jack Buchanan  (CMU-A)


∂31-JAN-75  1354		network site ISIA
 Date: 31 JAN 1975 1334-PST
 From: LICKLIDER at USC-ISIA
 Subject: Hieronymus
 To:   McCarthy at SU-AI
 cc:   Licklider
 
 	John, I do not know him well enough to be helpful.
 He seemed bright and interesting when he was here for a short visit,
 but I did not get enough of a fix on him to be sure whether I'd
 want to hire him, myself, or urge you to keep him
 hired.
 
 	My consideration of your proposal was interrupted by
 paperwork requirements levied by the new Director and by
 the need to get out several Memos Requesting ARPA Orders before
 COB today.  I'll get back at it shortly.  I'll have to ask for
 considerable sharpening of the objective structure; it now reads
 as though there are a lot of miscellaneous objectives to be reached
 in a year or two, but that it is not clear what roads they are on,
 what major goals they are subordinate to.  Also, I'll have to ask for
 a major reconsideration of the equipment section, which sounds as though
 it is heading for another ideosyncratic system.  (I have an idea
 about how to handle that, but I can't describe it now.)  Sorry to 
 have to noodle about on the proposal.  Al Blue got us an extension
 to cover the time required for noodling without losing the money.
 But we'll have to work pretty fast.  I assume I should communicate
 with LES -- with carbons to you?
 
 				Regards
 
 				Lick