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%files.old[e89,jmc]	Old paper files, indexed 1989 Sep
	These files fill one file box to be stored in garage.
	Some materials were put in hchron, others to be taken
to office.

Vera letters	to and from Vera on Annapurna including jmc
	(also copies of letters to Fran and Ursula)
Vera tapes	transcriptions, letter from Arlene Blum to jmc
		National Geographic about Annapurna
		Vera report with Jim Gray about Shared segments
Vera clippings and letters	Aconcagua poem, photos
	clippings about accident, expedition, Think about expedition
	Vera letter about climb, IBM Research about expedition
	Spanish clipping about Vera on Aconcagua
	clipping about Alexander Lerner and 1975 IJCAI
	Summit Magazine about expedition
Vera expedition	Vera passport, Nepal trekking permit, notebooks,
	address book, letter from Vera in Caucasus,
	Juarez divorce decree dated 1961 march 13 with Peter Smith Watson
	marriage 1957 July 22 in Rio de Janeiro
	1958 Mar 3 British passport with good picture
	visas U.S. Canada, Brazil
photos	slides (Arlene Blum) and film can
AWHE	includes long letter from me to Chadwick about what I
	found out by interviewing members of the expedition,
	other letters and agreements
Susie	ltrs from Reed and other materials
Songs	Der Jammerwoch, Russian version of "It's now ours, boys"
	translation of Barabanschik by Okudzhava
	translation of Petukh
	Shla mashina iz Tambova (with music)
	climbing songs
	off to sea once more
	bird in a cage
	Star of the County Down
	Dona dona, (English and Yiddish)
	Down along the cove
	The wicked messenger (Bob Dylan?)
	Songs of Love and Haight (Ashley Brilliant)
	Songs by Okudzhava
	poem about Czechoslovakia (Russ go home, not Yanks)
	(something about what a dead chicken said)
	try at a poem about 1965
	poem to Natasha
	more about the dead chicken
	The train from Tambov (translation)
	talking time-sharing blues
	translation of Petukh (Rooster)
	We belong to it
	"draft of minority report", ltr to Algol 68 committe with tape
Old pocket notes and business cards	7 old notebooks
Martha	divorce decree, other divorce material
manuscripts	handwritten originals of memo to Morse on time sharing
		handwritten original memo on LISP
chess program	material including dittoed on McCarthy chess program
	legal move routines
	discussion of three move mate mentioning killer heuristic
docdil	material from Fredkin on giving doctor's dilemma to M.I.T. students
2nd box in garage at 885 Allardice

1. Vera letters 1978, from her and to her from me and others
2. No on 15 campaign, 1975
3. 1950s notes on information retrieval (reread)
4. 1950s letters
5. Research notes 1950s
	Natural extensions of canonical systems (1 page)
	Programs that take advice (1)
	Contents of paper or book on programming (1)
	Multiple quantity statements, i.e. parallel assignments (3)
	outline on topics in cs and people (1)
	flow chart re chess (perhaps taken from program)  (1)
	what's a symbol (1)
	first pass plausible moves (chess) (1)
	division of the AI problem (1)
	note on formats (patterns?) (1)
	equivalence statements (macros?) (3)
	more on equivalences and formats (4)
	more on formats (4)
	improvements in programming
(whenever, auto-tree search, subr hierarch) (1)
	programming samples (5)
	high velocity low thrust rockets (unfortunately, only
well known preliminaries were stated)
	classifying game positions by probability of win (3)
	structure of problems and problem solving (1)
	move tree search (1)
	some differential equations (1)
	fragment of exposition on computers and programming (1)
	fragments on programming languages (3)
	connections on IBM704 relevant to forcing trapping mode

6. 1950s projects
	list of projects (1)
	dumbell in gravitational field (the question was
whether it was possible for a dumbell to pump itself into
a higher orbit.  The tentative answer was no.)
	common sense view of world problems and prospects
(these are in accordance with my present views 1989) (4)
	notes on air traffic control 1958 (2)
	notes on rates of computation (worth rereading) (8)
	Stanford shouldn't get the B5000 (probably never
shown to Forsythe)  Contains propositions about getting
a large time-sharing machine. ****
	formula for time allotted to subgoal in search (1)
unpleasant facts - worth putting in file **** (2)
various ideas - **** (1)

7. memos written as IBM consultant
	1957 April 29 Suggestions for fundamental research
in letter recognition (alas, it was multiple copies of the
same memo) ****
	Psychological Problems and Experiments suggested
by AI work **** (handwritten draft) (16)

8. Introduction to Turing Machines (26+diagrams) 1956 Nov 1

9. The Artificial Problem - hierarchy of topics 1956? June 21
	3 manuscripts 35 pp ****

10. cleanup 1957 Sept 15
	notes and SAP code for Fortran function permitting
use of program as functions - probably obviated by Fortran 2
(20)
	syntactic conditions, probably for Fortran (non
phrase structure) (8)
	Notes for IRE meeting talk on "Introduction to the
Artificial Intelligence Problem) 1956 Sept *****
copied to ai.1956 on gang-of-four, 1989 Sept
	notes on new language and compilers (4)
	announcement of Third Games Conference March 12, 1957 (not mine)
proposl for execute instruction (1)
	notes on superproductions and speedup of computation (1)
	notes for Morse code reader
	fragment of library condenser program (At that time, the
program library tape consisted of card images, and therefore
it read in slowly.  The condenser program got rid of most of
the inter-record gaps and most of the blanks.
	notes on formats (1)
approach to tensors (2)

11. photographs, 1950s

12. 1950s letters including
	request for proofs on paying the weatherman
	letter from Marschak and draft reply (handwritten)
	invite to symposium on Mechanization of thought processes
	
13. Notes for paper on Aggregation in the Leontief model

14. letters concerning Automata Studies

15. proposals for modifying IBM704 for interaction.  Check if
the there are hints aimed at time-sharing.

16. miscellaneous files from Dartmouth Summer Research Project
	manuscript An Approach to the Problem of Intelligent
Machines, maybe by Solomonoff
	Newell-Simon plans for project

17. Susie, circa 1973

18. old badges, copy of discharge, parachute log book