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MAR 1. 1973

Date. 15 March 1974

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Dr. K. M. Colby

SUMEX

I am writing to express our interest in using the SUMEX system at

the Stanford Medical School. I am principal investigator of an on-going
research project involving 10-12 people sponsored by the National Institute
of Mental Health. Using the concepts, methods and instruments of artificial
intelligence, we are studying machine understanding of natural language,
computer simulation of paranoid processes, diagnostic psychiatric interview-
ing and a technique for stimulating language development in nonspeaking
autistic children, the latter project having recently been given the Frieda
Fromm-Reichman Award for Research in Schizophrenia.

We are interested in SUMEX for two reasons. First, the time-shared
system we are currently using at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory is so heavily loaded that it is difficult to get an optimal
amount of work done in real-time. Our programs are written in MLISP and
MLISP2, languages which our project has developed and which are now widely
used on PDP-10's. We have also constructed LISP70 which will soon be used
by the ARPA network and which could easily be put on the SUMEX system. The
second reason for our interest concerns medical students and residents in
psychiatry who wish to participate in our research program. At present this
is virtually impossible because the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is
located 6 miles away from the Medical School. If we were running on the
SUMEX system, I am confident medical students, residents and others in the
medical school community would join us and contribute to our efforts to
utilize artificial intelligence approaches to some of the major problems
in psychiatry.

If there is any other information I can give you about our project and
our interest in SUMEX, please let me know.

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