1987 sept 19

find reviews of "The Olympic Myth of Greek Amateur Athletics".
David C. Young
Department of Classics
U. C. Santa Barbara

The explicit use of social class in the definition of amateur
began with the Amateur Athletic Club in 1866 and ended with
the Amateur Athletic Association in 1880.  If hypocrisy is the
tribute that vice pays to virtue, it is interesting that amateurism
rose to the level of hypocrisy in a mere 14 years but is taking
so much longer to give up the ghost entirely.  It would also be
interesting to read the explicit rationalization of the change.
Perhaps I should write to the author about it.

1987 Sept. 25
Two educators Ann Corn, Susan K. Johnsen interested in identifying
gifted children.

1987 Oct 26

call from Marjorie Blumenthal, NAS, 202 334-2605
with invitation to be on NAS panel requested by State Department
on east and west technology comparison.
Report requested by June.  Sy goodman, u arizona is panel chairman,
602 621-2748
joe traub chairman of cs board.
2 to 3 meetings, first dec 3 or 4
Asked about inclusion of emigres in study, e.g. Valentin Turchin.
Phoned Goodman Oct 26 to recommend Turchin, not in, left message
to call.

Oct 26 - message from AIR with report on
experiments with qlisp.  He seems to have
the right ideas. msg.msg/110p

msg.msg/112p phy with mail list oct 20
113p, nils on Dick Duda,  oct 20
114p, Pratt suggesting Gurevich
115p, pratt suggesting plotkin
116p, oct 21, feigenbaum asking what Nils means by Theory of Knowledge
117p oct 21, Rick Reis, Associate Dean for Professional Development,
invitation to give talk in High Noon series
120p oct 22, Dale Miller, announcement of thesis proposal by
Amy Felty
124p oct 23, review by Overbeek of Wos problems, possible to reply

Oct 26, $371.51 to Mary Fisher for car repairs, and $1000 to Sarah
for November.

Note from Willis Adcock with Heilmeier's co-ordinates
Dr. George H. Heilmeier
Texas Instruments, Inc.
P.O. Box 655474 - M.S. 400
Dallas, TX 75265
phone: 214 995-5975

letter from Virginia Mann asking if date for talk changable to Jan. 25.
phoned and left msg that it was ok.  Another note from her asking
whether announcement of vtss160 was ok.
tu-thu 1:15-2:30 filed under Oct

lechner
slotnick and slotnick, computers, their structure and influence

Dec 3 and 4
nas committee
conversation with Sy Goodman Oct 29
recommended Turchin, and he said he was considering also Firdman.
He asked about expert on orient, and I undertook to ask John
Nafeh, who recommended Warren Davis, v.p. Semi-conductor Industry
Association, 408 246-1181, who has 20 years of experience connected
with making semi-conductors in the Far East.

Oct 29 - lunch with Woody, Mike Starbird (math), Bob Williamson (math)
Williamson works on "shifts of finite type" as related to information
compression.  Starbird works on 3-d topology, especially Poincare
conjecture.  Starbird is interested in working on logic approach to AI.
I harangued him about circumscription, formalizing towers, control in
Prolog.

Oct. 29 - called Schwartz (back Monday), Goodman (got him), Heilmeier (left message),
Abrahams 413 774-5500 (left adequate message), Raffel 518 946-2145
 (left message), Noftsker 617 621-7810 (left message).

Nov 2 - Schwartz called.

Nov 3
proofs. from Daedalus, pamel banks 617 576-5084
also proofs from acm

mark's office called to cancel, reschedule 499-4201

4:45 x stud aaoc san jacinto and 21st, lila b edder
probably it was for today, and I forgot it.

Conversation with David Chudnovsky
1. He gives Gorbachev a year and a half.  I'll use that to calibrate
him.

2. He will supply some names, including Bronx High School of Science,
for possible U.S. Soviet collaboration on computer education of
mathematically talented high school students.

3. I agreed to be (nominally) on the organizing committee of his
next (june 1989) computers and math. show to be held at M.I.T.  I
suggested that I might give a paper on LISP.  He suggested Fredkin
for some related businessmen's committee and I approved.

4. He predicted that Sy Goodman would not recommend any emigre
for the NAS study.  I said that in that case I would probably
resign from it - noisily.

nov 4, oct 23 ttac report from Ron Larsen, replied electronically
with remark that NASA should try to use commercial computers in
the space station. report filed under 1987 nov

nov 4, msg from Shankar about nsf reaction to proposal.

nov 6 - finished most corrections of Logic in AI for Daedalus - mailed it
Daedalus address
Daedalus
136 Irving St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
617 576-5084
att: Pamela Banks

Nov 6 - corrected Generality in Artificial Intelligence for CACM by phone

Nov 7 - got chiselled by Hertz again, charged an extra day, because Oct
has 31 days.  Miller Walker is counterman I talked to.  Should call in
advance of Dec 7 to see if they will prorate rental.  Otherwise, promised
to use a different company.

Nov 10 - Willis Adcock phoned about possible visit to TI in Austin where
the Explorer is made.

Nov 11 - revised sentence for Daedalus article
I think that before we can have computer programs with the general
intelligence and linguistic flexibility of a human child, AI research
must develop languages with "elaboration tolerance".  For example, such
a language would allow the usage of the word "mother" to elaborate as
described above without losing older information.  Elaboration tolerance
is a current AI research topic.

Joe Watson is the person in charge of TI's Explorer development in Austin.

Nov 12 - Tim Wirthlin of Colorado is characterized as an environmentalist
coming around to support nuclear power.  nuclea.ns[f87,jmc]

Nov 12 - Nils in dc, 8:30 Arlington Hilton

Here are the questions I asked at the U Texas lecture by Arkady Shevchenko.
He handled them beautifully.

1. In one of the panels that preceded this meeting, it was said that an
important cause of bad Soviet-American relations was that the American
people are ignorant about the Soviet Union and have mistaken negative
ideas about the Soviet system.  Do you agree with this view?

Shevchenko agreed that there was ignorance, but said it wasn't the main
problem.  Soviet policy was the main problem.

2. In your experience, how frank was the discussion among high Soviet
officials about foreign policy issues?  Were officials afraid of
revealing their opinions to their colleagues?  Specifically, what was
the range of opinion expressed on the advisability of invading
Czechoslovakia?

Shevchenko said this was an excellent question.  In fact one of the
reasons he defected was his inability to discuss issues frankly with
his colleagues.  He mentioned being afraid to reveal his opinions to
Gromyko when his position was as adviser to Gromyko.  He said that
the discussions at the Politburo meeting(s) he attended weren't frank
either.  He compared this with the frankness with which American
officials stated their various opinions in the meeting(s) he had
attended at which President Reagan was present.  He remarked that
an official who loses his job in the State Department has many
opportunities in the private sector, while a Soviet Foreign Ministry
official who loses that job may be doomed for life to a menial
position.  Before the invasion of Czechoslovakia the only discussion
concerned how to suppress the Prague Spring; no-one dared say that
it needn't be suppressed.

nov 16

come in 290 ir I10 to West loop, 610, corky, west loop south to sw
freeway 59, e on 59 to 5th greebriars, r on greenbriars s after switches
to 2 way at Rice blvd, corner rice, next light is university, L turn r
onto Travis, Main is too far, Wyndham Travis Center, (corky: home 723
664-8809) (dept 527-4834) (wyndham 524-6633) cork@rice.edu, send
abstract,

nov 16
Posnick, Sherry on assignment for Peninsula magazine doing
story on cpsr
415 467-8334 home, Peninsula Mag.
what do I think of cpsr? somewhat harmful
will sdi progs work, can't say yet, but computer programs
have been the smaller source of trouble in making complicated
systems work.
pentagon funding is bad, because diverting.  In the main I have
done what I want.  However, the fundamental justification must
be that the U. S. has real defense problems.
gets students comfortable in military env.

working on cs for pentagon is unethical.

Nov 20 - a final correction to Daedalus article
result(e,s) formalism used in AI to express the consequences of actions and
other events,

Nov 23

with Chuck Williams about TI possibility; said he could refer them to me

Nov 23
Goldschlag@turing is the current user of qfile

Nov 30
old note: Donald Blais,cc.blais, 471-3241 is the TOPS-20 expert.
2415 is combination to 1.48 painter

Nov 30
Fed Ex office is in Littlefield Mall 6th and Brazos

Dec 1
files re wiseman problem
wise3.ax[s78 contains just axioms with learning
wise3.prf[s78 contains incomplete proof
know[f81,jmc] begins a paper with English versions of several of
the puzzles and useful general remarks.

know[e78 formalization of two puzzles
know.art[f75 is one of the papers VAL looked at
know.2[w81 two puzzles
know[w81,jmc] discusses the modal axioms and their first order expression
	print this one
know.fil[f85 list of files

Dec 8
conversation with Firdman
cordell green system copied at Moscow institute onto ibm pcs
Pospelov, Tyuugu, Briabrin and one other at Milan

Nighthawk Restaurant, Riverside and Congress, Jocelyn Tomkin, astrophysics

Matt Kaufmann, CLINC (home: 476-9553) (office: 322-9951)

ut elpaso, dept of mathematical science, 79968

dec 15
appt with Y.T. Chien, dec 21 10am, 202 357-9572, room 310
tentative with Peter Freeman 9am, 357-9747
try Alan(sp?) Leschner 357-9808, science and technology centerstn sail        
He will be out of the office.

middle august, deadline for text for future of ai at 30 year  conf
2nd week december 1988, recommended Carolyn for "recursive function
theory and Lisp".

Pollock from New Mexico State called about his workshop proposal.

Stachowitz phone from Lockheed 448-9718

Dec 17
Marian Adams
3-2021 wants 150 word review by Feb 1 of book I enjoyed for Stanford
Magazine.  ideas: Wattenberg on lack of population, 8 grandchildren

old hopes and current realities

Dec 22
Harry Hedges is the NSF Division of Computer Research representative
with respect to science and technology centers

Dec 24
24mm lens for Sarah, 47th St. Camera 800 221-7774   
order number M1224-508 5704