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Dr. William R. Baker, Jr.
Assistant Chief :
Biotechnology Resources Branch NE
Division of Research Resources

Public Health Service

Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Bethesda, Maryland 20014

  

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Dear Bill,

Thank you for a copy of the SUMEX-AIM Prospectus. As you undoubtedly know
we have been approved for membership in the AIM Network. At present we are
awaiting delivery of TI Siient 700 terminals so we can begin active usage of
the facility. We will add 1200 baud CRT terminals later when the Network has
overcome its initial installation pains.

I write to make one remark that may be of use in conjuring support for this
program. Kulikowski at Rutgers is putting his glaucoma consultation program
up on the PDP-10 at Stanford. We are in receipt of documentation of this work
and expect to be actively using it in a few weeks in the Glaucoma Clinic at the
Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary here in Chicago. The importance of this access
is not the glaucoma consultation itself, but the side effects: young faculty
here (both in artificial intelligence and in ophthalmology) are able to work
with and evaluate probably the most advanced of the available computer decision-
making programs. This stimulus and direct access may save us as much as a year.
Also in the ophthalmologic data base design, common interests are already en-
couraging the groups at Johns Hopkins, Mount Sinai, St. Louis and Chicago to
attempt to standardize on notation and where possible on format of the data base.

The sense of National communication and collaborative development engendered
by the AIM Network is a marvelously healthy sign. I only wish that the chromo-
some karyotyping contract at JPL, supported under NICHD funds, could be put on
this network basis (with lots of Scanner/anaiysis ports however). I saw again
last week in Boston (Eden's group) the price paid for isolation.

Ve uly yours,

Bruce H. McCormick, Head
Dept. of Information
Engineering

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