COMMENT ⊗   VALID 00002 PAGES
C REC  PAGE   DESCRIPTION
C00001 00001
C00002 00002	.LTR(Professor Patrick Winston)
C00006 ENDMK
C⊗;
.LTR(Professor Patrick Winston)
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
545 Technology Square
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts  02139

.FAD

Dear Pat,

I enjoyed my visit to MIT very much, and 
hope to visit again frequently.
Let me thank you for the excellent arrangements you made for me.
Your warm personal hospitality made me feel  at ease during my stay,
and helped create a quite favorable "first impression" of your lab.

Enclosed is the  receipt for my airplane  ticket.
MIT's share of the airfare is about $74. The complete division of
my $524 fare is as follows:

.BEGIN NOFILL PREFACE 0 INDENT 15 SELECT 5

$150 Carnegie-Mellon
$74 MIT
$150 Rutgers
$150 U. Texas

.END

I'll personally pick up
whatever part of the $74 MIT doesn't pay.
I am in no hurry to be reimbursed, by the way.

Today I  was officially offered  an  assistant  professorship  at
Carnegie, and I accepted  that offer. I hope that you
will agree with my decision.
Since I mentioned this possibility to you during my visit, and since there are
no jobs at MIT this year anyway, I'm sure that this will neither surprise nor
displease you. In fact,
I hope my decision enables us to meet regularly, since we'll both be on the East
coast.

The  position has most  of the  advantages which MIT can offer: I will
work closely with brilliant people (Simon, Newell, Reddy, Berliner), and
have complete freedom of research. 
In addition, I will bear only
a very light teaching load
(probably %2no%* courses my first semester),
and will be paid quite well.
The idea of not requiring first-year assistant professors to teach
during their first semester seems a particularly sensible policy, since
the canonical asst. prof. "trap" seems to be not getting any research done for
at least six months.
I'd be interested in your reaction to such a policy.

I expect to receive my degree in August, and will mail you a copy of my thesis
at that time. If you're at all interested in reading drafts of each chapter
as they emerge, just drop me a note.
Once again, thank you for the hospitality you showed me during my visit.
I hope we can work together sometime.
Regards to Carl %2et al%*.

.DBL

.SKIP 2 FLUSH LEFT
%5DBL:pub%*