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G. Anthony Gorry, Ph.D.

National Research & Demonstration Center
Evaluation Research Unit

1616 Medical Towers Building

6608 Fannin Street

Houston, Texas 77025

Elliott Levinthal, Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine

SUMEX Computer Project
tanford, California 94305

October 8, 1975

Dear Dr. Levinthal:

Thank you for renewing my status on SUMEX for the next few months. I appreciate

having access to the system, and I hope that I will be able to make use of it

in my work here at Baylor. I have recently accepted a new position here as

the Director for the Program of Health Management Sciences. Although the

principal focus of this program is on management in health care systems, it

does allow me the opportunity to continue my research in computer-aided

medical decision making.
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My short term plans are to continue collaborating with my colleagues at M.I.T.,

and specifically to mount. a rather major effort to refine certain programs: which

we developed to prototype status when I was there. It may be that we will seek

your support in using SUMEX to proceed with this development. In any event, I

hope to have several physicians working here with me at Baylor on similar

activity. Of course, I have a strong interest in the field generally,and for

this reason, I would very much like to maintain access to the activities at

SUMEX both for self education and to communicate with the various investigators

using the system.

The research activities that we began at M.I.T. are still continuiing, and I
expect that people there will desire access to SUMEX, although I cannot say
at the moment exactly on what basis. I would recommend that you contact
Mr. Howie Silverman, NE43-425, M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 or

at HOWIE on the Math Lab. machine there,for clarification of their interest.

As I say, I appreciate your willingness to allow me continued access to SUMEX ,
and as soon as I am a little more settled in my job here I will let you know in
more detail what plans I have to use the system. I hope this is satisfactory

to you. :
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