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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