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Date: November 9, 1972

SUMEX Collaborators
J. Lederberg

Report on our Application and Site-Visit (June 1, 1972); Sept. 11, 1972

Our application was deferred, with a rather strong line on how it
might be revised and then be fundable.

Our case for a broad-base resource was rejected, mainly on the grounds
that we had failed to demonstrate a need for a large realtime resource,
like the PDP-10 we had contemplated, for most of the collaborating projects.

We were encouraged to submit a drastically reduced revised application
along lines that would support mainly the DENDRAL Project and perhaps also
function as a "resource" for other artificial-intelligence-oriented projects

at other institutions, with access by way of national computer communications
networks.

We of course have little choice but to proceed in response to these rec-=
ommendations, and will do so in time to meet a December 4 deadline.

I regret that this outcome impedes the possibility of a formal arrange-
ment of working together with most of the proposed collaborators. If we are
funded, I will make every effort to find legitimate ways for mutual help
and to support at least the sharing of common intellectual concerns and in-
sights. We are quite uncertain as to the prospective guidelines for the
shared use of the diminished facility, which may however become possible
on some sort of fee basis.

I will try to keep all interested parties informed about further devel-
Opments.

Finally, my personal thanks for the considerable effort that so many of
you made in preparing the case for the site visit team.

Sincerely,

Distribution: C. Constantinou, C. Djerassi, E. Feigenbaum, G. Franklin,
D. Harrison, L. Herzenberg, B. Kopell, E. Levinthal, T. Roth,
T. Stamey, B. Stenson.

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