<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Dear <span id="DWT614" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT634" class="ZmSearchResult">SIGCIS</span></span>,</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">A little gem found among my archives:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><em>Graduate Assistantship Directory in the Computer Sciences</em>, 1971-1972, published by the ACM.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">It lists 102 universities (95 US, 5 in Canada, 1 in England and 1 in Holland), with their computing equipment, their teaching & research programs, name of contact (typically the head of the computer department), tuitions, etc.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Unsurprisingly, the details of computing equipments reveal a wealth of large mainframes and sometimes of supercomputers, well above those possessed then by European universities.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">45 of these universities had teaching or research programs on AI and Pattern Recognition.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Best,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Pierre Mounier-Kuhn</span></div><div><img src="cid:a2c1a25295da424ea7fe54a2733b84574d093949@zimbra" data-mce-src="cid:a2c1a25295da424ea7fe54a2733b84574d093949@zimbra"></div></div></body></html>