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Mr. Pierre V. Heftler
34th Floor
100 Renaissance Center
Detroit, Michigan 48243

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Dear Mr. Heftler:

	There is indeed a professional organization in artificial
intelligence, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Its address is

445 Burgess Drive\hfil\break
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496

and its executive director is Ms. Claudia Mazzetti at that address
and the current president is

Professor Patrick Winston\hfill\break
NE43-817
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MIT, AI Lab
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545 Technology Square
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Cambridge, MASS. 02139

By tradition, its ``wise men'' are its past presidents who are
in chronological order

Woody Bledsow
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President 84-5
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MCC	
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3500 West Balcones Center Drive
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Austin, Texas 78759

D. Raj Reddy
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President-elect 85
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Computer Science Department
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Carnegie-Mellon University
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213

John McCarthy
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President 83-4 
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Computer Science Department
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Stanford University
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Stanford, CA 94305

Nils, J. Nillson
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President 82-3 
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Computer Science Department
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Stanford University
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Stanford, CA 94305

Marvin Minsky
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President 81-2
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MIT-AI
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545 Technology Square
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Cambridge, MA 02139

Allen Newell
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President 79-80
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Computer Science Department
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Carnegie-Mellon University
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213

	My opinion is that foundations should concentrate their support on
young university faculty, i.e. new PhDs, doing basic research in the
field.  We elders are mostly well supported already, and industry is
pushing the applications vigorously.  It is particularly desirable
to be able to act quickly (NSF can't) in order to buy time for research
for young people who have just finished their PhDs.  Post-doctoral
fellowships are also a need.

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Sincerely,       

John McCarthy    
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