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Notes on a Conversation with Bob Kahn on the ICCC
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NWG/RFC# 372 RWW 12-JUL-72 9:39 11022
Notes on a Conversation with Bob Kahn on the ICCC
The conference is tues-thurs oct 24-26 and at the moment
the room is only going to be available from the 22nd. This
seems to be a short time to install floor, TIP, terminals,
phone lines, etc and Bob is going to try to get the room
the previous Wed or Fri, but doesn't know yet.
Bob would like to have working demo with terminals,
resources at BBN in Aug.
What resources are presently committed?
UCLA Klinerock will have some network measurement stuff to
demonstrate.
Stanford AI has indicated they will have some programs to
demone.
Utah Tony Hearn will have his Reduce program to demo, Berry
Wessler plans to demo something, Harvey Greenfield has some
sort of mdical program.
RAND before recent sakeup indicated iterest, status now not
known.
SDC will have some natural language programs and their
data management systems.
MIT Vezza and Kahn are looking into having some hardcopy
device such as Photon attached to a GE TS system. Al has
some other things to demo.
Bob has contacted a number of non net sources such as the
NY Times (data base), Eastern Airlines etc., but has no
definite commitments yet.
We at ARC will of course have a number of things to
demonstrate.
This ARPANET demo is the only show at the conference. Larry
Roberts has invited the ASIS people over for Thurs afternoon.