STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER _
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November 11, 1970
STANEORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Department of Genetics

Richmond K. Anderson, M.D.
Program Director

Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
277 Park Avenue

New York, New York 10017

Dear Dr. Anderson,

Thank you for your letter dated September 14, 1970. I am happy to
provide a financial statement covering the Macy Foundation support for
the ACME Computing Facility. You will note on the attached statement that
$162,988.91 of the $165,000 grant has been spent. Therefore we have an un-
expended balance as of September 30, 1970, of $2,011.09. If you have any
questions concerning the statement, please let me know.

I am attaching four ACME notes to this letter which will help to
explain the nature of ACME's work over the last few years. The most
important point is that ACME is now a well established facility for the
whole medical school community. It is subsidized mainly by a program grant
from NIH, details of which are appended. We are gradually moving to full
charging of users (through their individual research grants) save for a
core program of research on computer innovation as such. This achievement
follows directly from the initial support of the Macy Foundation.

 

 

The first note enclosed is a summary of publications or papers by our
users. Although this list is incomplete, it does represent a significant
portion of the published work by ACME's active users. A second ACME note is
the paper by Walter Reynolds in the Genetics Department entitled "Instrumentation
in a time-shared Environment". This is a description of the ACME system from
the view point of a real time user working in spectroscopy.

The last two ACME notes attached to this letter describe the ACME system
from a system designer's viewpoint. At present, approximately 300 research
projects around the Medical School use ACME on a regular basis. The initial
goal of designing a powerful computer tool that would be easy for medical
researchers to learn and to use has been met and I believe has earned a very
high regard among computer experts. In the near term ACME will devote
considerable effort to becoming ever more reliable, support small machines
more fully, and move on to more complex interaction on a real time basis
with research instrumentation,

We appreciate your continuing interest in the ACME project. In August
of 1969, the National Institutes of Health provided a grant for follow-on
work to the ACME system covering a three year period. The small residual fund
from the Macy Foundation grant will be reserved for minor crises that would
otherwise impede the continuation of ACME's work.

Sincerely you

  
 
  

/ Enclosures Joshua Lederberg
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