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18215 Bayview Drive
Los Gatos, California 95030
March 27, 1979
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:


\JSometimes it is difficult to write letters of recommendation;
sometimes it is a great pleasure. This letter is most definitely 
an instance of the latter. I am very pleased to convey my impressions
of Gary Hillerson to you.

I have known Gary for over two years at the Santa Cruz campus of the
University of California. I have come to know him as a student, friend,
and professional colleague. He is endowed with a keen intellect as well as
a mature understanding 
 of the necessity for hard work. 

Faculty and students alike
respect his competence, judgement, and spirit.
He is well-liked by all who deal with him; he frequently volunteers to help
his colleagues without having to be asked. 

Gary's senior thesis, the design and implementation of a 
bootstrapping interpreter for logic 
as a programming language, demonstrates
his ability to do original research.

Gary does not do things half way.
In a special Advanced Logic Programming
course, Gary's initiative and programming expertise was  again demonstrated.
He was responsible for the successful  installation  on the Santa Cruz
facilities of
an experimental programming research tool. This task required 
 an understanding of the research  tool itself, knowledge of the
operating system, and a great deal of determination.

In summary, Gary Hillerson is an exceptional individual, representing
 the best of UC Santa Cruz. I would have no reservations in recommending
him either for employment or for further formal study.
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Yours sincerely,




Ruth E. Davis

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