00100	@                            MEMORANDUM
00200	
00300	                                                     28 November 1971
00400	
00500	TO:	@1
00600	
00700	FROM:	L. Earnest
00800	
00900	SUBJECT: Report on @2
01000	
01100	It is time to produce a new Project Technical Report. At least one of
01200	our  contracts  calls for one quarterly.  In the past, we have gotten
01300	away with semi-annual reports, but the  last  one  was  assembled  in
01400	January, so we are substantially overdue (my fault).
01500	
01600	Obligations aside, these reports are  useful  for  answering  general
01700	inquiries,  as  handouts  to  visitors,  and  for  the recruiting and
01800	orientation of new graduate  students.   In  fact,  these  uses  have
01900	exhausted our stocks of earlier versions.
02000	
02100	I  would  appreciate  it  if you or one of the people in your project
02200	would update your summary, covering the following.
02300		1.  the name of the project;
02400		2.  names of current participants;
02500		3.  sources of support, i. e. a list of sponsoring
02600		    organizations and contract numbers (if you don't know,
02700		    I'll fill it in);
02800		4.  research objectives;
02900		5.  recent accomplishments, including references to A. I.
03000		    Memos and external publications of project members, and
03100		    any others that may be relevant;
03200		6.  direction of current work.
03300	As  little  as  one page may suffice, but a bit more might be better.
03400	It should be written so as to permit a computer-oriented person,  not
03500	necessarily a specialist in your field, to get the flavor of what you
03600	are doing and why, and to decide whether he ought to learn more about
03700	it.
03800	
03900	If you have anything to brag about, do so.  Try to motivate your work
04000	(why?) and avoid ponderous completeness.  Integral humor is  welcome.
04300	
04400	I am enclosing your last writeup, if any.  If you would like to reuse
04500	portions of this text, it may be found in PROJ[D,LES]. If you produce
04600	a text file, it would be appreciated if you would use  the  following
04700	format:
04800		section headings at the left margin, followed by a blank
04900		    line,
05000		subsection headings indented and also followed by a blank
05100		    line,
05200		no indentation on the first line of a paragraph,
05300		single-spaced text,
05400		a blank line between paragraphs,
05500	and be sure to give me the name and location of the  file.   We  will
05600	number  the  sections as the report is put together and will probably
05700	run it through the document compiler (PUB), so you  need  not  bother
05800	with text justification.
05900	
06000	Appendices  will  list external publications by project members, film
06100	reports, theses, and abstracts of recent A. I. Memos.  I am enclosing
06200	our   current  list  of  external  publications.   Please  check  its
06300	completeness and accuracy for members of your group and send  me  the
06400	changes.    You  should  include  all  publications  that  follow the
06500	individual's affiliation with the A. I. or H. P. projects, regardless
06600	of topic.
06700	
06800	I  would  like  to  have  the  finished  texts  from  all  groups  by
06900	15 December, so that we can wrap it up  by  Christmas.   In  advance,
07000	thank you for your help.
07100	
07200	cc:
07205	Ken Colby	Higher Mental Functions
07213	Ed Feigenbaum	Heuristic Programming Project
07221	Jerry Feldman	Grammatical Inference & Hand-eye
07229	Bob Floyd	your work
07237	Don Knuth	Programming Languages
07245	Dave Luckham	Theorem Proving
07253	Robin Milner	Mathematical Theory of Computation
07261	Phil Petit	Computer Design
07269	Lynn Quam	Perception
07277	Art Samuel	Machine Learning & Speech Recognition
07285	Yorick Wilks	Machine Translation
     

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07400	@	name@project@
07600	Ken Colby	Higher Mental Functions
07700	Ed Feigenbaum	Heuristic Programming Project
07800	Jerry Feldman	Grammatical Inference & Hand-eye
07850	Bob Floyd	your work
07900	Don Knuth	Programming Languages
08000	Dave Luckham	Theorem Proving
08100	Robin Milner	Mathematical Theory of Computation
08200	Phil Petit	Computer Design
08300	Lynn Quam	Perception
08400	Art Samuel	Machine Learning & Speech Recognition
08500	Yorick Wilks	Machine Translation