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\C21 August 1973









Dr. S. Lukasik
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
1700 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, Virginia 22202


Dear Steve:

	\JEnclosed is a copy of the memorandum \F1Computer vision and its
relevance to the Defense Department\F0 to which I referred in my
network note of this date.

	I am also helping write the general report on AI and its relevance
to the Defense Department, but since the vision memorandum I had previously
promised was mostly done, and because perhaps not everyone would agree
with the views about direct military applications expressed in the memo,
I decided to finish it and send it separately.  This is not to indicate that
I expect to disagree in any way with the conclusions of the AI report.

	If you are still interested, I would like to come and talk with you
about vision, AI, and computer science generally.\.


					Sincerely yours,



					John McCarthy
					Professor of Computer Science
					Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory