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∂30-AUG-74 1540 D,LES
Thanks. I should have thought of that.
Let me bring up a certified bug that has bitten me intermittently
for the last 6 months (including today). The file GLASS[D,LES]
requires a simple header macro in LET[D,LES]. If you Pub it,
everything works right, except that the word GLASS gets appended
to the date on the first line (i.e. the file name creeps in!).
If you put everything in one file, rather than REQUIREing, the
bug vanishes. Very sneaky.
␈ CC: tesler%MAXC
∂30-AUG-74 1050 S,LES
ATTN: NEUR
This is a belated response to your note to Ralph Gorin of 5 July.
I have set up a temporary account for you on our machine.
To log in, say "L 1/AC" and when it asks for a password, say "UK".
To change the password, use "%" instead of "/" in logging in.
To learn more about the system, say "HELP".
I showed your note to one of our graduate students, Dr. Alan Cowles,
who is doing some related work. He will probably communicate
with you separately.
Your account here will be valid through the end of October. If
you need it longer, send me a message.
Lester Earnest
Executive Officer
Stanford A. I. Lab.
(LES @ SU-AI)
␈ CC: UK%ISI
∂26-AUG-74 2322 D,LES
Sure.
␈ CC: sgk
Dear Lick:
Following up on your IFIP memo of March 18, I have a couple
of questions.
1. Should we interpret the "one person per contract" rule quite
literally? As you know, there are three projects here with
separate administrations and separate contractual budgets.
2. Several people on the A. I. Project have expressed interest
in paying their own way to IFIP, but ask if we can pick up the
registration fee and per diem expenses while attending. Would
it be OK to do this instead of, or in addition to, covering the
regular attendee?
We also need to discuss two other problems with you: speech
recognition research support and the proposed changeover to
TENEX/VIROS. John McCarthy and I would like to call you next
week. How about 5PM (your time) on Tuesday, April 2?
L. Earnest (LES @SU-AI)
cc: S. Crocker
In response to Al Blue's inquiry, a bibliography of external publications
by A. I. Lab staff members is kept in a file called "PUBS[BIB,DOC]".
In case you would like to get at some of our other files over the
network, I append here an extract from Appendix A of our recent Final Report.
Public File Areas
People who have access to the ARPA Network are welcome to access our public
files. The areas of principal interest and their contents are a follows:
[BIB,DOC] bibliographies of various kinds,
[AIM,DOC] texts of a few of our A. I. Memos,
[S,DOC] many of our SAILONs,
[UP,DOC] working notes (quite informal),
[P,DOC] "people-oriented" files, including the lab phone directory.
Network Access
To get into our system from the Network, say "L NET.GUE", which logs
you in as a "network guest". All commands end with a carriage return.
Our monitor types "." whenever it is
ready to accept a command. To halt a program that is running, type
<Control>C twice.
If your terminal has both upper and lower case characters, let the monitor
know by saying "TTY FULL". If you are at a typewriter terminal, you may
also wish to type "TTY FILL", which causes extra carriage returns to be inserted so
that the carriage has time to return to the left margin before the next line
begins.
To see the names of all the files in, say, the
[S,DOC] area (where SAILONs are stored), type "DIR [S,DOC]". This will
produce a list of files and the dates they were last written. Among others,
it should list "INTRO.TES", which is an introduction to our timesharing system
(usually obsolescent, alas), written by the programmer whose initials are TES.
To type out the contents of a given file, such as INTRO.TES, say
TYPE INTRO.TES[S,DOC]
and it will come spewing forth.
To stop the typout, say <Control>C twice and it
will stop after a few lines. To continue, type "CONT". If you wish to
examine selected portions of text files, use the SOS editor in read-only
mode, as described in SOS.LES[S,DOC].
To log out when you are done, type
K <carriage return>
There may be some difficulty with files that employ the full Stanford character
set, which uses some 26 of the ASCII control codes (0 to 37 octal) to
represent special characters.
File Transfer
Files can also be transferred to another site using the File Transfer Protocol.
Documentation on our FTP program is located on our disk file in FTP.DCS[UP,DOC].
No passwords or account numbers are needed to access our FTP from the outside.
Our nominees for the ARPA graduate student conference:
1. 2.
Name: Yogen Dalal Bob Bolles
ARPANET: SU-DSL@OFFICE-1 RCB @SU-AI
Telephone: 415-497-1454 415-497-4971
Mail: ERL-404 Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Stanford University Stanford University
Stanford, Calif. 94305 Stanford, Calif. 94305
Interest area: Design of distributed Programmable Assembly
operating systems. systems -- automation with
sensory feedback.
Audio-visual: Vugraph projector 16mm movie projector
I too am concerned about the AI Conference location.
John McCarthy has drafted a letter that we were going
to send around. If he hasn't sent it to you yet, you
may want to peek in "ISRAEL.LE1[LET,JMC]".
I agree that it would be reasonable to poll the community
and will happily turn over the old list of attendees.
Incidentally, I am about to head off by bicycle to San Diego
and expect to get back here the evening of June 25. I will
call my office once or twice to check on messages, in case
something needs to be done in the meantime.
To: Kirstein%ISI
Attn SK:
This is in reply to your note of 18 July to Ralph Gorin.
We have no current work in the traditional pattern recognition
areas. In fact, such work is not generally regarded as belonging
to the field of AI anymore.
We do have some active research on perception of three-dimensional
objects using digitized television images. This is in support
of our robotics work, which involves the use of mechanical arms
to assemble various devices. If you need more information, we
have a few reports available.
Les Earnest (LES @ SU-AI)