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.LTR(Professor Paul Cohen)
Mathematics Department
Stanford University
Stanford, Ca.
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Dear Professor Cohen,

My thesis draft is ready sooner than I expected.
Here are some sections you may wish to look over:

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page 1: Abstract

pages 2-5: Short overview

[maybe: pages 11-21: glance over this example of the system's output]

[maybe: pages 22-27: this explains the main control of the system: an 
%2agenda%* of plausible tasks.]

[maybe: pages 29-92: detailed material on the heuristic rules and the representation
of concepts inside the system.]

pages 93-95: description of AM as a mathematician

[maybe: pages 96:100: Experiments performed on the finished AM program.]

pages 102-121: How to judge any such system; capabilities and limitations of AM.

[maybe: pages 135-141: Development of highly-composite numbers, which AM guided.]

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Please mark up the enclosed copy of the thesis, with comments I may look at.
After I've assimilated them, you can either have this same copy back or a
"fresh" one. I'm especially interested in its comprehensibility to you,
as a non-computer-scientist.
It may not be possible to
read "past" all the jargon. In any case,
let's try to schedule a meeting before the oral exam, when I can
explain my system to you in detail. 

.DBL(Regards,Doug Lenat)