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∂AIL Dr. Hisashi Kobayashi↓IBM Corporation↓P.O. Box 218↓Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 10598∞

Dear Dr. Kobayashi:

	This is in support of the nomination of Carolyn
Talcott for the IBM fellowship for well-qualified female candidates.

	Carolyn Talcott is in her second year as a graduate student in
computer science at Stanford.  She may be the best of the current
students in the Computer Science Department,
and I think it likely that she will be the best Ph.D. student
I have had.

	She has been a student in two of my classes and was the best
student each time.  She has been a teaching assistant in my course
covering the LISP language with emphasis on proving that programs
meet their specifications.  She will teach the course this Spring
and is collaborating with me on a book covering the material.

	Besides the above, she is making a start on a dissertation relating to
connecting mathematical work in recursive function theory with practical
recursive programming.  She has shown herself to be an excellent
lecturer - having made the point of a rather complex piece of
research understandable to a general computer science audience
at the Stanford Computer Forum in a twenty minute lecture.

	The catch, if it is a catch, is that she already has a Ph.D. in
chemistry and has chosen to switch to computer science.  Our previous
experience with people who already have Ph.D.s and want to switch was
not good, so we resolved to admit them only to the Master's program,
and she was so admitted.  However, she did so well that she has just
been admitted to the Ph.D. program after doing an excellent job on our
Comprehensive Examination.

.sgn