April 1, 1966

Dr. Victor E. Halli

Brain Information Service
School of Medicine

University of Chlifornia

Los Angeles, California 90024

Dear Dr. Hall:

Through a chain whose last links were Brad Rogers and Miss Darling, I

have learned of the existence of your Brain Information Service, and I

am writing to ask you whether you could contemplate adding me to the

list of participants, even during what I readily understand to be its
preliminary experimental phases. While my principal responsibilitygs

are of course in experimental work, I am also deeply involved in the
planning and implementation of computer and information services within
the School of Medicine. Besides the service that I might expect to ask
for from you I think I might be able to offer the benefit of considerable
experience in the critical evaluation of information systems. I was, for
example, on the PSAC panel on scientific information a couple of years ago,
and I am currently working with NASA and with the Institute for Scientific
Information on profile-oriented current awareness systems. None of these,
as I am sure you would predict, is very satisfactory. I would then be
particularly interested if I can be put on your roster for the current
alerting service and would appreciate any consideration you can give me

in this regard. In doing this I could either reflect my own personal in-
terests in developmental protein neurobiochemistry, or if it were more in
keeping with your own policies I could tie together with a number of my
cOlleagues here covering a much wider span of neurophysiological research.

Sincerely yours,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

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