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∂AIL Mr. Phil Hilts↓5761 Harwich Ct.↓Alexandria, Virginia 22311∞
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Dear Phil:

	I suppose you haven't got around to publishing what you
wrote about me.  I hope your effort isn't wasted.
Anyway, there is another person involved in
a related enterprise with whom you might have some common interest.

	An East German professor (of computer science?) became
interested in writing a history of LISP and corresponded with
many people, especially me, and indeed published in East Germany
his %2LISP - Anwendungs-gebiete, Grundbegriffe, Geschichte%1.
As you can imagine, this was quite an enterprise for someone
whose only possibility for travel was to the Soviet Union.

	Recently they let him emigrate to West Germany after
keeping him in jail for six months on trumped up charges of
helping someone (never named) escape.  They let him take his
family.

	He went to the IJCAI in Vancouver, and travelled around
the U.S. and interviewed various people.  He wants to publish his
book in English and has prepared a translation.

	On the one hand, he has been a true historian in his diligence,
quests for documents and people, and his attempts to reconstruct
what ideas were developed in what order and who did what.  On the
the other hand, he has made many mistakes, and his written English
is terrible.

	I have no idea whether the two of you would actually turn
out to have common interests, but you might be interested in looking
at his English manuscript and/or he in yours.  He is very intelligent
and energetic and pleasant to talk to, and his address is

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Dr. Herbert Stoyan
Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg
Institut fur Mathematische Maschinen und Datenverarbeitung
Martenstrasse 3
D-8520 Erlangen
WEST GERMANY

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