Friday
November 10, 1978

Memo to File

Minsky would like support for the part of his

 

sabbatical not covered by MIT for next year. I told
him we didn't have a ready made salary but could cer-
tainly provide him with the office. He is thinking
about renegotiating a part year kind of visit. We
probably would still have to organize something in
terms of his double living expense to keep him fi-
nancially whole. I promised to get back to him in
a couple of weeks. Meantime, I should talk this over
with George Miller and see if there are any loose
funds in that project or it could be gotten from Sloan
that might be helpful here.

He told me he doesn't really see very much of Miller
even when George is up at Cambridge since that interaction
is mostly with the linguists. Marvin doesn't think too much
will come out of the philosophy/A.I. project having spent
a month or so trying to do it all by himself and reaching
those conclusions.

Marvin himself had a partial cuff tear which he said

took him two years to heal more or less reasonably.

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