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∂CSL Dr. T. T. B. Koh, Ambassador↓Singapore Mission to the U.N.↓
↓1 U.N. Plaza, 26th Floor 
↓New York, N.Y. 10017∞

Dear Mr. Ambassador:

	We met at lunch at the New York Academy conference on computers.
When I mentioned that I was visiting Japan and Taiwan this Spring,
you suggested that I visit Singapore also and offered to help.
It may be too late for it to be convenient for you to arrange
anything, but my plans took time to become firm.  I plan to
leave Taiwan Sunday
 June 13 and could visit for a few days on my way
back to the U.S. if there is interest in Singapore in
the kinds of things I work on.

	I don't know if you have heard of me.  I am one of the
founders of the field of artificial intelligence and have been
working in that area since 1952.  I am also responsible for the
LISP language and for the first proposals for time-sharing
computer systems.  I don't know whether anyone in Singapore
is working on artificial intelligence, but I would imagine so,
since AI has become quite fashionable recently.  Computer science
departments in universities are the usual home for AI research.
I have also worked on the social opportunities provided by
computer technology.

	I enclose a copy of my vita.

	My address will be this one until May 21.

	In Japan, I can be reached c/o

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	Professor Satoru Takasu
	Research Institute of Mathematical Sciences
	Kyoto University
	Kyoto, JAPAN
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and I will be there until June 13.

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	In Taiwan I can be reached c/o

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	Professor Richard C. T. Lee
	Computer and Decision Sciences
	Tsinghua University
	Hsinchu
	Taiwan, ROC
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