∂16-OCT-74  2256		network site ML
 
 From:  MINSKY@MIT-ML 10/17/74  01:58:32
 
 ANYWAY, I GUESS THERE IS A NEW POLICY
 
 FOR CLOBBERING NETWORK USERS. 
 
   AN ACQUAINTANCE, LEONARD HAMILTON OF
 
 BRROKHAVEN, IS ON A COMMITTE ABOUT ENERGY AND
 
 ENVIRONMENT ETC. ETC. I TOLD HIM
 
 SOME OF YOUR PRO-AUTOMOBILE
 
 (AND PRO-TECHNOLOGY) ARGUMENTS AND HE WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO
 
 READ MORE. ARE ANY RELEVANT ESSAYS SEND-ABLE TO HIM?
 
 INDEED, I FELL THAT THE WORLD NEEDS THE TECHNOLOGY BOOK
 
 AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AND IF I CAN HELP YOU GET IT OUT
 
 ILL BE GLAD TO HELP.
 

∂26-OCT-74  1653		S,LES
 John:
 
 Lick shot back rather quickly:
 
 ∂26-OCT-74  0717		network site ISI
  Date: 26 OCT 1974 0717-PDT
  From: LICKLIDER at USC-ISI
  Subject: Bullets
  To:   LES at SU-AI
  cc:   Licklider
  
  	Thanks very much for the bullets.  What I had in mind when I
  called was mainly automatic programming, but I am very happy to have the
  broader coverage.
  
  	Here is some reaction/response, intended to contribute to the
  shaping up of this bullet business, which plays (or should/could play)
  an important role in keeping ARPA Hq. informed of and happy with what
  IPTO contractors are doing:
  
  Robotics
  
  	What, specifically, is the two-arm system capable of doing?
  Examples might be sufficient.  A general specification of capa capability
  illustrated with examples would be great.  Our readership delights in
  specificity.
  
  	How much does stereo improve performace?  How does far-field
  stereo vision work?  (In human vision, I thought stereo worked only in
  near field.)
  
  MT of C
  
  	Could you lay out the steps to a practical program-verification
  system, with projected times of achievement, so we can see where
  the LCF-PASCAL program stands in the over-all program?
  
  [Sorry I missed a heading.  'Computer Vision' should have preceded
  'How much'.]
  
  Theorem Proving
  
  	Gratified to see we have in over-all IPTO program at least
  one effort to create computer-aided top-down programming aid.
  It will be important to make measurements to see whether/how much
  this beats 'ordinary' programming.  Could you be sure the report
  gives a thorough treatment of this one?
  
  AP
  
  	From Cordell, I have descriptions of three AP programs, of
  which the second you mention is one, but I do not recognize the first
  you mention.  I am now trying to perfect a set of AP bullets.  Would
  you augment the description of this first one.  I'll send my
  descriptions of the other three for improvement by you and 
  Cordell.
  
  NLU
  
  	This is too general for our use but sounds as though a
  more specific description would be very useful.  Best supress the
  name.  Please explain conceptual dependency.
  
  Training
  
  	We are working (slowly) on the problem of the capacity of
  the field of AI to use research support effectively.  Ideally, we
  would have a model of the field that would include numbers of people
  at each of several levels of capability and cost, rate of movement
  from one category to another (e.g., rate of production of Ph.D.s
  and rate of dropping out of graduate study and dropping out of field
  altogether), etc.  Let me ask you to think about this matter a bit
  and indicate what you can tell us that will be helpful.  Our motivation
  is simply that we are planning to put more emphasis on and money
  into AI work, and the question is asked, 'Where are the competent
  people going to come from to do the work?'.
  
  	
  	Please let me know of any questions that my comments raise
  in you mind.  I want to develop, over the months, a way of getting
  good, informative bullets with the least pain to all concerned.
  Perhaps the best general guidance I can give is that the intended
  readers insist on understanding, are not satisfied with someting
  that just sounds important.  The problem for me is that (1)
  the items have to be pretty short but (2) have to carry enough
  context that a gerneralist in technology can understand them and
  their relation to DoD problems.
  
  				Regards
  
  				Lick
  
  P.S.:  I forgot to carbon-copy Cordell.  Would you please show
  this to him?  Lick
  -------
 

∂25-OCT-74  2328		S,LES
 BULLET fired.

∂24-OCT-74  1435		1,BH
 Is there any chance of getting more 300 baud dialup lines?  Especially
 now that the dialer exists TTY11 is often busy, and if they are really
 going to start charging for using the Ames TIP the demand will be even
 greater.

∂24-OCT-74  0601		S,LES
 I just had another telephone conversation with Al Blue at ARPA
 who said that we can (almost certainly) have $130K for hardware,
 such as memory, if we generate a hasty proposal.  Our regular
 proposal should be in not later than next month.


∂23-OCT-74  1130		ACT,REG
 In conversation with Fred Wilhelm today, he said:
 1. He thinks we're getting an essentially bare KL10 with
    11/40 console/front-end, tu56, some sort of of console tty,
    membus adapter and IO bus adapter.
 
 2. 1080 backpanel has room for only one dte20.
 3. 1080 backpanel cannot accomodate any RH20s.
 
 4. Wilhelm thinks that our machine is being handled by Tom Campbell,
    20-20 product line manager.  Wilhelm was uncertain about whether
    mass bus can be retrofitted on our machine, and he was uncertain
    about delivery schedule, and suggested that Campbell knows all.
 
 5. For our general information, Wilhelm informs us that there are
    three product line managers in 10 land, Campbell, Fagerquist (1080),
    and Stan Pearson (communications).


∂23-OCT-74  0909		network site CMUA
 ***** FTP mail from [C410HB03] (BERLINER)
 DR. MCCARTHY,
 I HAVE NO PLANS AT PRESENT TO PUBLISH MY THESIS. WE ARE REPRINTING 500 MORE 
 COPIES AND THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR ANYBODY WHO MIGHT WANT IT. HOWEVER,
 I MAY DO A BOOK ON COMPUTER CHESS, IN WHICH CASE A PORTION OF THE THESIS
 WOULD BE USED. HOWEVER, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOUR COMMENTS, AS YOUR OUTLOOK
 WOULD BE VALUABLE IN GUIDING MY FUTURE WORK. AT PRESENT I AM STILL TRYING TO
 FINISH OFF MY DEGREE REQUIREMENTS AND GET BACK TO THE PROGRAM. I'M ALSO
 ROUGHING OUT SOME PAPERS BASED ON MY THESIS.
                           HANS BERLINER
∂21-OCT-74  0954		1,MG
 I'm very interested in formalisms for representing semantic-equations so I'm
 looking forward to talking to you about LISP in FOL.
 
 Until I get a car (i.e. until I'm paid) I work on campus on tuesdays
 and thursdays (I spend the mornings listening to TW's lectures and having
 typing lessons from Stanford's ''clerical skills training instructor``).
 (In the afternoon I'm in one of the libraries). I'm having lunch with
 Danny Bobrow today so I may spend the afternoon on campus.Thus I'll be
 in the lab. all day wednesday and all day friday this week.
 
 Unfortunately I've only got one copy of my thesis with me. The proof of the
 Main Theorem is now obsolete - Milne of Oxford has shown me a much neater proof.
 Part of my current effort is directed toward extending the semantics to handle
 all of LISP 1.5 together with some interactive features (e.g. BREAK, TRACE etc.).
 Fairly soon I may produce a list of the things I hope to prove.
 
                               Mike


∂21-OCT-74  0858		SEC,TW
 yes jerry is the right one -- you should also send
 a copy to danny.


∂17-OCT-74  1643		SOC,AHB
 Do you know where I can find the proceedings of the NBS conference on Automation's
 Impact on the Public, held last May?
 		Thanks,  Alan Borning

∂14-OCT-74  1721		1,PAW
 there is a memo about a visit from M. Levieux, of IRIA coming on nov. 5 in your
 mail for today...Ed Lak's secretary called about visit from Dr. E. Gornowsky
 and D. Baeder, corporate research EXXON who will be here on 12 november and he
 would like you to talk to them from l:45-2:35 in your office....i can't find
 an address for Dana Scott and i can't find the memo from Remsen to send with
 the Cheney letter....patte


∂17-OCT-74  1215		100,100: MSW @ USCT
 THE NEW DIVISION HEAD - DR.CANNON ARRIVED THIS WEEK. HE ALREADY
 APPOINTED A SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE COMPUTER SCIENCE
 PROBLEMS.  THE HEAD OF THIS COMMITTE IS DR. GOULD, ONE OF OUR FINEST
 PHYSICIST.  ALSO IN THE COMMITTE ARE: PIERCE, FRANKLIN(APP. MATH.), 
 MACCANN,AND OTHERS.  THEY PLAN TO CONSALT ALSO WITH PEOPLE OUTSIDE
 CIT.  THE TIME FOR YOUR LETTER IS RIGHT NOW, AND YOU MIGHT CONSIDER
 SENDING COPIES TO CANNON, AND GOULD. 


∂15-OCT-74  2153		EXP,JMG
 Some bug in a program which should have terminated.  That's really
 embarrasing.

∂15-OCT-74  1133		ACT,REG
 JMG is eating up the computer, the disk, the UDP and the dart tapes, and
 he's doing it without even being here.

 He started a job thru a PTY just before midnight and it's gobbled 7 hours
 of CPU time, it's written more than 130 data files, and every one of those
 files has to get dumped, bloating the dart tapes and history files.
 It's nearly noon, and that job is still running.  And what was that claim
 about only using up time at night when no one else....

∂15-OCT-74  1128		D,LOU
 I am/was here today Tuesday, and will not be in Monday

∂15-OCT-74  1121		D,LOU
 I put my comments into react.doc   lou

∂14-OCT-74  2221		1,BH
 Besides the problem of dialing up the other computer in the first
 place (what if TTY11 is busy, etc.), there is the further problem
 that there is no File Transfer Protocol for such connections, so I
 would have to know, for each such system, how to log in and enter
 a mail command, how to interpret its responses (there are standard
 FTP response codes for various error conditions), and any
 timing idiosyncracies regarding typeahead and so on.  If you were
 to persuade them to establish a dial-up FTP server, then maybe.

∂14-OCT-74  1443		H,RF
 New files:  HALNEW.DOC	current cogitation about what should be changed in HAL
 	     PRUNE.DAT	finally.  Please use PRUNE to add to this.
 	     REACT.DOC	outside reactions to the HAL document.
␈ CC: @HAL:TOB,RCB,RF,LOU,RHT,[HAL,HE],JMC,JH,BO,BES


∂12-OCT-74  1909		1,PDQ AT TTY17   1909
 CAN WE MEET MONDAY ABOUT THE VIKING QUESTION -- PRIMARILY BUDGET MATTERS

∂11-OCT-74  1945		1,DBX
 You will find my text in PLANS[1,DBX].

∂11-OCT-74  1249		1,DML
 I'VE BORROWED YOUR COPY OF CHARNIAK'S "A STUDY IN THE PRAGMATICS OF LANGUAGE"

∂09-OCT-74  0954		D,LOU AT TTY105   0954
 Sato from ETL will be here Friday morning
 I will pick him up in Palo Alto and bring hime here
 at about 930am, I am sure that he will want to 
 meet with you.
 				Lou

∂08-OCT-74  1620		HAL,RHT
 HAL mtg rescheduled for Thursday, 2:00 pm

∂06-OCT-74  2246		FOO,DBA
 SOFTWR.GOL[SOF,DOC] is SOFT+SOFT.ANS+SOFTER.  DBA

∂08-OCT-74  0911		MUS,SAJ
 I ran into Genevieve Marcus and Bob Smith at a wine tasting in LA.
 
 If you are not already acquainted with their EARTHLAB project, I
 think you will find this interesting and amusing reading.  They
 have acquired 38,000 acres of land near San Luis Obispo for their
 first city of 50k inhabitants.  They seem to have a reasonably 
 large resource base available.
 				SAJ

∂08-OCT-74  0231		NS,ME
 New NS finally up.  Documents itself.  Has output features; ?OUTPUT.

∂07-OCT-74  1446		H,RF
 HAL meeting postponed until after meeting with Brewer Tues 1330.
␈ CC: @HAL:TOB,RCB,RF,LOU,RHT,[HAL,HE],JMC,JH,BO,BES


∂06-OCT-74  1803		R,WD
 	I HAVE RETURNED YOUR DOWN JACKET.

∂04-OCT-74  1424		1,KNM
 phone message:  bill spicer phoned, he read your statement and will be happy to
 support it.  you may phone him at 74643 or 74639. (2:03)


∂03-OCT-74  1737		FOO,DBA
 SOFT.TK[FOO,DBA] is Tom Knight's opinion.

∂03-OCT-74  1108		1,KNM
 cindy gillman of the energy office called.  there is an opening to speak on
 mon oct. 7 at 8:00 pm.  are you interested in filling it.  please call her
 at 556-1465.

∂03-OCT-74  0912		265,TW
 you may be interested in OBSOL.ETE[DOC,TW]

∂02-OCT-74  1335		1,BH
 I thought you might be interested in this excerpt from RSEXEC's
 NETNEWS messages:
 
 Date:  1 OCT 1974 1401-EDT
 From: MALMAN
 Subject: EXTREMELY IMPORTANT NEWS RE TIP ACCESS CONTROL AND ACCOUNTING
 
 DEAR TIP USER:
 
         BEGINNING DECEMBER 1, 1974 ALL ACCESS TO THE ARPANET
 THROUGH TIPS WILL BE CONTROLLED BY A LOGIN PROCEDURE. AFTER
 CONNECTING TO A TIP IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO TYPE YOUR NAME
 IDENTIFIER AND SECRET PASSWORD. IF YOU CANNOT SUCCESSFULLY
 LOGIN YOU WILL BE DISCONNECTED.
 
         BEGINNING NOVEMBER 1, 1974 THE SYSTEM WILL START A TESTING
 PHASE DURING WHICH ANY NAME IDENTIFIER AND PASSWORD WILL WORK.
 
         IN ORDER TO GET AN ACCOUNT YOU SHOULD BE AN
 AUTHORIZED USER AND SUBMIT A REQUEST. AUTHORIZED
 USERS ARE (1) ARPA CONTRACTORS USING THE ARPANET IN SUPPORT
 OF THE WORK OF THEIR ARPA CONTRACT, OR (2) MILITARY PERSONNEL
 OR PERSONNEL OF NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCIES USING THE NETWORK
 FOR R & D PURPOSES. USERS OF THE NETWORK WHO DO
 NOT FIT INTO EITHER CATEGORY ARE ENCOURAGED TO MAKE A SPECIAL
 REQUEST FOR ACCESS.
 
         IN THE FUTURE, THERE WILL BE A CHARGE FOR TIP USEAGE.
 HENCE, REQUESTS FOR ACCOUNTS MUST CONTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT
 THE INDIVIDUAL REQUESTING THE ACCOUNT AND THE ORGANIZATION
 THAT WILL PAY FOR THE ACCOUNT. THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE
 ORGANIZATION MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE.
 THE REQUEST MUST INDICATE SPECIFIC TIPS TO BE ACCESSED,
 FOR THE OWNERS OF SOME TIPS MAY WISH TO RESTRICT ACCESS.
 SPECIAL ACOUNTS WILL BE AVAILABLE ALLOWING ACCESS TO ALL
 TIPS. THESE WILL BE ASSIGNED TO OPERATORS AND MAINTAINERS
 OF THE NETWORK, AND OTHERS UNDER EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES,
 BY REQUEST.
 
 INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION: NAME IDENTIFIER, FULL NAME, PASSWORD REQUESTED,
         ADDRESS, TELEPHONE NUMBER, NETWORK ADDRESS (IF ANY),
         AND LIST OF TIPS TO BE ACCESSED.
 PAYING ORGANIZATION INFORMATION: NAME, NAME OF AUTHORIZING
         INDIVIDUAL, ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER OF AUTHORIZING
         INDIVIDUAL
 
         CHARGES FOR TIP USE WILL BEGIN IN FY76, AND A CHARGING
 SCHEME HAS NOT YET BEEN WORKED OUT. SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOME.
 
 
 
 PLEASE SEND LETTERS (NOT NETWORK MAIL) REQUESTING ACCOUNTS TO:
 
         DR. CRAIG FIELDS
         ARPA
         1400 WILSON BLVD.
         ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA 22209
 
 
                                         CRAIG FIELDS


∂02-OCT-74  1341		1,KNM
 paul fine of informatics (213) 822-3552 would like you to call (13:42)

∂02-OCT-74  1324		1,KNM
 holt ashley phoned and he is a potential signer of some form of your
 technology optimism statement and would like to be included in your
 discussion and on the list.

∂01-OCT-74  1434		FOO,DBA
 The file SOFTER[FOO,DBA] is a postscript to the Software discussion begun
 by SOFT.  If you comment on it within the next day or so I could alter it
 in response.  Basically I think that while the technical issues are
 interesting, the management issues are more pressing, and the time has come
 for a serious attempt at a coherent policy for future facilities at the lab.
 							Bruce

∂01-OCT-74  0000		ESS,JMC (reminder)
 call dentist

∂16-OCT-74  2216		1,JSL
 Hello John-  Thank you for resetting me on my account here. The pass-
 word had gotten lost at some point; sorry to have had to trouble you.
 I look forwat↓λrd to getting set up on Arpaeλnet so we have easier cross-filing
 of these messages.  I will not be logging in here very often, so please
 do use SUMEX for messaging.
 Thanks again
 JOSH L

∂16-OCT-74  2040		100,100 AT TTY124   2040: MINSKY @ ML
 
 HI. I CAN'T SEEM TO GET INTO YOUR SYSTEM BECAUSE OF
 
 PASSWORD DELETION. IS THIS REVERSIBLE?