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DATE: May 6, 1975
To : File
FROM: Joshua Lederberg
SusJect: AIM Advisory Committee White Paper
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The paramount issues are: what is AI, referring to the Nielson and
Feigenbaum papers.

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What is the charter of SUMEX AIM with respect to the whole spectrum
of health research not just medical care services. But Bill Baker cautions
that NIH generally is confused about NIH's role in demonstrating health
performance and there will be a crisis if we do not show some way in which the
research is relevant to health.

There is a policy question of the level of intervention that the Advisory
Committee should undertake with respect to the scientific content of projects
and their modes of interactions. My position is that we must go further than is
typical for the Study Section since we have a qualitatively unique resource not
simply interchangeable dollars.

There is the issue that Ed Feigenbaum's speech addressed about the relative
role of scientific quality and medical relevance,

There are questions about the extent to which modelling should come under
AI and if so whether we should mount SIMULA GPSS or SIMSCRIPT,.

In general, we need a lot of discussion about the kinds of projects we
are looking for and information to users about the criteria that will be used
in deciding on their role. A good deal of this is, of course, in the questionnaire,

There are also the issues that Tom Rindfleisch raised in his SEND MESSAGE
memo to me.

Then for more specific action items, there are the questions of communicating
to Arbib and to Baer. Find out to what extent Elliott will have done that,

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