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- From: watanabe@milton.cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe)
- Subject: Re: Petition for withdrawal of NRC report: Computing the Future
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.172308.4873@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 17:23:08 GMT
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- jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
-
- > Juris Hartmanis, the chairman of the committee
- > that wrote the report, thinks you should read the whole 200 pages
- > at $28 of it, but that's a lot to expect from a lot of people. The
- > preface and executive summary, obtainable by ftp as described below
- > will be enough for most, since it is these parts are the most
- > objectionable.
-
- Perhaps Juris Hartmanis could be convinced to make a machine-readable
- version of the report available for free? It might also be a good
- idea to post a text version of the executive summary.
-
- While I respect the opinions and reputations of the authors of
- the petition, I'd like more information before signing a petition.
-
- -Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu
-