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␈↓ ↓H␈↓␈↓βS␈↓∧ Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, California 94305

␈↓ ↓H␈↓∧Telephone 415 497-4430␈↓ 	TDecember 12, 1978 




␈↓ ↓H␈↓Professor  K.S. Hsu
␈↓ ↓H␈↓Institute of Computers
␈↓ ↓H␈↓Academia Sinica
␈↓ ↓H␈↓Peking, China

␈↓ ↓H␈↓Dear Professor Hsu:

␈↓ ↓H␈↓        Many thanks to you and your colleagues for your kind and helpful sympathy.

␈↓ ↓H␈↓        As␈α⊂you␈α⊂probably␈α⊂know,␈α⊃we␈α⊂have␈α⊂invited␈α⊂Mr.␈α⊃Ma␈α⊂Shi-wen␈α⊂of␈α⊂Peking␈α⊃University,␈α⊂whose
␈↓ ↓H␈↓research␈α
interests␈α
overlap␈α∞mine,␈α
to␈α
visit␈α∞the␈α
Arti≡cial␈α
Intelligence␈α
Laboratory.␈α∞ I␈α
hope␈α
he␈α∞will␈α
be
␈↓ ↓H␈↓able␈α∞to␈α∞accept␈α∞the␈α∞invitation.␈α∞ We␈α∞would␈α∞like␈α∞to␈α∞proceed␈α∞slowly,␈α∞and␈α∞anyway␈α∞we␈α∞have␈α∞a␈α
limited
␈↓ ↓H␈↓capacity␈α∂for␈α∂visitors.␈α∞ Nevertheless,␈α∂I␈α∂think␈α∞we␈α∂could␈α∂accept␈α∞another␈α∂person␈α∂for␈α∞a␈α∂visit␈α∂of␈α∞some
␈↓ ↓H␈↓months.␈α∂ As␈α∂I␈α∞remarked␈α∂in␈α∂Peking,␈α∂I␈α∞think␈α∂you␈α∂would␈α∂bene≡t␈α∞from␈α∂sending␈α∂a␈α∂relatively␈α∞senior
␈↓ ↓H␈↓person␈α
with␈α∞good␈α
English␈α∞for␈α
a␈α∞few␈α
months.␈α∞ This␈α
would␈α∞give␈α
you␈α∞a␈α
good␈α∞picture␈α
of␈α∞the␈α
many
␈↓ ↓H␈↓kinds of research done at Stanford in computer science.  However, we can consider any proposal.

␈↓ ↓H␈↓        Therefore,␈αI␈α
suggest␈αyou␈α
make␈αa␈αde≡nite␈α
proposal␈αof␈α
who␈αwould␈αcome,␈α
when,␈αand␈α
for␈αhow
␈↓ ↓H␈↓long.␈α A␈αscienti≡c␈αbiography␈αshould␈αbe␈αincluded.␈α After␈αJune␈αthe␈αArti≡cial␈αIntelligence␈α
Laboratory
␈↓ ↓H␈↓will␈α
be␈αon␈α
the␈α
main␈αStanford␈α
campus,␈α
and␈αwe␈α
will␈α
have␈αless␈α
space␈α
than␈αnow,␈α
and␈α
the␈αproposal␈α
will
␈↓ ↓H␈↓have to compete with other requests for space for visitors.


␈↓ ↓H␈↓Best regards,



␈↓ ↓H␈↓John McCarthy
␈↓ ↓H␈↓Director
␈↓ ↓H␈↓Professor of Computer Science

␈↓ ↓H␈↓P.S. I assume that you are still the correct person with whom to correspond about this.