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October 12, 1979

Dear Committee Member:

Here is more information on the LISP Conference.

The Committee now includes:  John R. Allen, Richard Fateman, Dan Friedman,
Eiichi Goto,  Tony Hearn,  Carl Hewitt,  Alan Kay,  Joachim Laubsch,  John
McCarthy, Gianfranco Prini, Erik Sandewall, and Carolyn Talcott. Represent
atives from France and England  are still to be  heard from, but we're  in
excellent shape.

The schedule is much  more definite now, but  still many of the  questions
that I sent you remain unresolved; I am attaching the qestionaire again.

I made an error in the draft  schedule.  I had meant to write "each  paper
will be read  by three members".  Instead, it came  out "each member  will
read three papers". 

I have located a  quality printer and binder;  both Stanford and U.  Santa
Santa Clara  are  holding space  for  us; ACM  has  been notified  of  the
conference and its dates;  AISB knows about  the conference already,  both
AISB and EATCS will  be sent the Call,  and other information. Of  course,
the ARPA community will  be notified. If you  know of other  organizations
which should be notified, please let me know.

The major hurdle is the  Call for Papers.  I am  attaching a draft of  the
Call for Papers;  it is only  a draft  so please send  comments! The  Call
should posted from Stanford no later than October 22, 1979.

Thank you all  both for your  acceptance.  This will  be an enjoyable  and
memorable conference.


John

phones and addresses

home (408) 353-3857, 
John Allen  Stanford 497-4971, 
Ruth Davis  U. Santa Clara 984-4358

JRA@su-ai, RED@su-ai,
18215 Bayview Dr.
Los Gatos, 95030