∂02-JAN-76  1436	FTP:Spitzen at SRI-AI    
Date:  2 JAN 1976 1436-PST
From: Spitzen at SRI-AI
To:   jra at SU-AI

1.  There are several people at SRI who could give a very good review of
your book.  I can highly recommend Mike Wilber, who maintains our
Lisp system, Earl Sacerdoti, who designed Qlisp, Bernie Elspas, who
writes very beautiful elegant code, Rich Fikes, who has written many
AI programs in Lisp, and me.


2.  I am not merely interested, I am extraordinarily interested, in
building a Lisp machine.  We (me and Rob Shostak who knows a great
deal about hardware, among other things) have spent  many hours thinking
about the possibilities.  The question you ask is loaded, I assume, since
you mention it in the context of HP.  If you are interested, we would
be delighted to discuss our ideas and our knowledge of other
efforts (Deutsch at Parc and Greenblat at Mit-ai).  Regardless of whether
you are interested in us, I personally believe that a company like HP
could make a happy killing by being the leader in supplying the world
with lisp cycles.  
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∂25-AUG-75  1331		network site SRI
 Date: 25 AUG 1975 1330-PDT
 From: BOYER at SRI-AI
 Subject: JOBS
 To:   JRA at SU-AI
 
 JACK GOLDBERG, IN RESPONSE TO YOUR NETMAIL, WROTE ME
 THE FOLLOWING NOTE:
 
 OUR HIRING POTENTIAL DEPENDS ON SEVERAL PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES
 (COMMAND CONTROL, NEW ARCHITECURE, ARPA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING) THAT
 ARE VERY IFF AT THIS TIME.  I CAN'T OFFER ALLEN ANY ENCOURAGEMENT
 FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.
 
 I WOULD ADD, IN POSTSCRIPT THAT SINCE YOU LAST CAME BY, SEVERAL
 APPROACHES THAT WE HAVE MADE TO ARPA, BOTH FORMAL AND INFORMAL HAVE
 BEEN REJECTED.  IF I WERE LOOKING FOR A JOB RIGHT NOW, I BELIEVE
 THAT SRI-AI MIGHT BE A GOOD PLACE, PROVIDED ONE WERE ENTHUSIASTICALLY
 WILLING TO PURSUE THE IDEA OF COMMAND CONTROL THAT ARPA IS CURRENTLY
 PUSHING.  THE SRI-AI CENTER IS VERY LIKELY TO MOVE HEAVILY IN
 THAT DIRECTION, AND THEY WILL NEED EXCELLENT PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF
 WHO ARE ABLE TO TAKE AN INTERESTING IDEA AND REALLY MAKE A WORKABLE
 SYSTEM, RATHER THAN A TOY SYSTEM.   
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