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John:
progress is being made; below are  1) an intial outline of the conference
and 2) proposed schedule to ready our goal. sugggestions are WELCOME.
in particular an estimate of addendance wouuld be most helpful.

letters went out  last monday air mail special delivery to 
Eiichi Goto, Patrick Greussay, Erik Sandewaall,and Joachim Labusch.
Danny Bobrow  is booked up. I'm working on Warren; he's busy, but I think
convinceable. Carl Hewitt said yes, and suggested Rod Burstall. Gianfranco
Prini is also interested. I'm considering Dan Friedman; what about Carolyn 
Talcott? I want to satisfy several simultaneous constraints: representative
geographical areas; representative topical areas; and maintain a quorum
which is reasonably accessible in a short notice.

the conference office says they have some scheduling problems for the
aug24-27 period; that's why U Santa Clara came up (Ruth Davis is on the faculty
there and will be handling local arrangements). My first preference is  stanford
of course, but  overflow from the AI meeting is attractive to our conference.

on sponsorship: is it possible to get some seed money through the lab? if we can
string  out the debts until advanced reg. fees start to flow, then we can maintain
control (=profits) and be in a position to do this on a regular basis. so far
i've been paying postage and such myself, but sooner or later someone is
going to ask for lots of money; if outside sponsorship is necessary, then
it has to be requested immediately.

			below are the blurbs:
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