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\F1\COctober 12, 1979















Dr. Eiichi Goto
Department of Information Sciences
Faculty of Science
University of Tokyo
7-3-1  Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku
Tokyo, 113  JAPAN






Dear Dr. Goto:

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I am \F2very\F1 pleased that you have accepted the invitation to the
Program Committee.  There are two additional letters (Oct 5 and 
Oct 10) that will have
reached you before this one. I hope this insistent and almost
constant supply of mail has not inconvenienced you.
Your participation in this conference is very important to me and to the
success of the conference.  I have heard excellent reports of the
work on LISP in your country; I would pleased to  hear more about
your LISP machine project.

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. 
Representatives 
from France and England  are still to be  heard from, but we're  in
excellent shape.

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 apologize.

Procedural details are under control.
I have located a  quality printer and binder;  both Stanford and U.  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 
the ARPANET community will  be notified. If you  know of other  organizations
which should be notified, please let me know. Of course you are the best judge
of how to publicize the Conference in Japan and surrounding areas; I will
supply copies of the Call for Papers for you.

The major effort now is the  Call for Papers.  I sent along a draft of  the
Call in my October 10 letter. It is only a draft  so please send  
comments; however the  Call
should posted from Stanford no later than October 22, 1979.

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

Again, our XGP is being  tempermental; please excuse the poor quality.
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Yours sincerely,





John R. Allen

Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
Stanford, Cal 94305

18215 Bayview Dr.
Los Gatos Ca, 95030
(408) 353-3857

	
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