Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
				Computer Science Dept
				Stanford University
				Stanford, California,94305



Mr. Eugene Miles
Fairchild Camera And Instruments
464 Ellis Street
Mountain View, California


Dear Mr. Miles:


Our group and the laboratory have great interest in  the  development
of  charge-coupled  image  devices  for our area of research.  We are
involved in robotics for industrial assembly automation.  Solid state
devices have inherent advantages for this application, in particular,
low image distortion and potentially high signal/noise  over  a  wide
dynamic  range.     Also,  we  have  applications  for  devices  with
relatively low resolution by commercial tv standards,  since  in  our
applications,  we  are  interfacing  with minicomputers with moderate
memory sizes.  I am involved in a study for  our  sponsors  on  image
devices for computer interfacing and robotics requirements.

It would be of great benefit to us and to our students  if  we  could
get  an evaluation sample of usable quality of the 500x1 linear array
which has just been announced.  We will interface it to our  robotics
computer system and familiarize ourselves with the techniques.

I  would  like to request, in addition, that we be considered when it
becomes possible, for a usable sample  of  the  100x100  area  array.
Although  that  is not a product now, and may never be, an area array
of this resolution is quite useful for  us,  and  we  want  to  begin
interfacing such a device as soon as possible.

In  our  courses  and research we reach a large number of engineering
students and support a substantial number.  The good effects of early
availability  of  state  of the art devices would be widespread among
students.



						Sincerely,



						Thomas O. Binford