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Professor Gene Golub
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
Stanford, California  94022
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@greeting(Dear Gene:)
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	I was surprised by the proposals for
revising space allocations, hearing about them only yesterday.
It was my intention to put Lew Creary into the space being
vacated by the departure of Richard Weyhrauch from my group
and to use the space being vacated by Jitendra Malik for a
new graduate student.

	Space is a scarce resource, and it is necessary to react
to its scarcity according to one's priorities.  My highest priority
is research, and, therefore, my highest space priority office space
for it.  Already we are in a bad position, since we require
research associates to share offices, while every other research
institution in the area allocates them private offices.  This
harms their effectiveness, their morale, and
our ability to communicate with them, since the lack of private
offices causes them to come in less.

	Indeed one of the precipitating factors in my abandoning
the administrative structure of the AI Laboratory was to make the
offices then occupied by Lester Earnest and Hersche Allen available
for research use.

	Dr. Jussi Ketonen, who has justly complained about the
fact that there are three people in his office, told me a few days
ago that he thought there was some plan to restrict his space
further and stated his desire for an office with not more than
two occupants, with two Datadisc terminals and a window.

	In keeping resources for high priority activities, one
has to look for lower priority activities to sacrifice.  My lower
priority is for administrative services.  It is not my prerogative
to determine how much of its resources the Department and University
spend on administrative services or to object to their continued
expansion.  However, it seems to be my prerogative to approve
the monthly salary allocations for the grants and contracts for
which I am principal investigator.

	This is to give notice that from today I do not approve
any salary allocations for non-research personnel, except for
Frances Larson and Tom Binford's secretary,
and I do not approve any increase in the part
of their salaries for which my grants and contracts pay.  This
applies to the following accounts:

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	My suggestion is that the Department find space outside
of Margaret Jacks Hall for much of its administrative services,
starting at the top.

	I fear that you will find this action startling, but when
you think about it, I trust you will find it consistent with my priorities
as a scientist and my responsibilities as a principal investigator.
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Sincerely,



John McCarthy
Professor of Computer Science






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