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JOSHUA LEDERBERG

PRESIDENT

Dr. Edward Franceschini

New York University

Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences

251 Mercer Street

New York, New York 10012

Dear Dr. Franceschini:

I hope that you might remember that I talked to
you some three months ago about requesting privilege
of local access to ARPANET via your ELF system.

I am sorry that this formal letter of request has
been so long delayed. I was laid up in the hospital
for awhile with a shoulder injury and there have been
some other delays in getting my terminal hardware in-
stalled in my office properly.

At any rate, I hope that it is still timely to
submit my application and to give you the information
that you requested.

My intended use of the ARPANET is in connection
with my work as co-investigator (with Dr. E. A. Feigen-
baum) on the "Heuristic Programing Project at Stanford
University supported by the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, (ARPA Order 2494, Contract No. MDA
903-77-C-0322). Although I.left Stanford in September
to take my present position here, I remain a consulting
professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stan-
ford primarily in order to sustain the collaboration
with the heuristic programing project. My use of the
ARPANET will be primarily for the exchange of messages
from my terminal here to the SUMEX and SU-AI NODES at
Stanford. I anticipate that the traffic will be between
five and ten hours per month.
Dr. Edward Franceschini
January 22, 1979

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If further authentication of these connections
is required they can be readily obtained from Dr.
Robert E. Kahn at ARPA or from Dr. Robert Engelmore
who is at the point of leaving Stanford to direct
AI-oriented research at ARPA.

I hope that this meets your needs for information
and that you can tell me the protocol for getting on
to ARPANET. I am well acquainted with how to use the
net to communicate with other NODES.

I am also looking forward to a number of still
more important ways to open up collaborative interests
between the Courant Institute and The Rockefeller Univer-
sity. The two institutions are already undertaking a
Major joint professorial appointment in mathematics; but
I am sure that there are many other opportunities that
would be facilitated by getting to know one another better
at the working level.

Yours sincerely,

oshua Lederberg