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>From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
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Subject: Re: Robotic Follies
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Date: 25 Feb 92 21:03:36 GMT
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In article <1992Feb25.003248.10765@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> vishal@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Vishal I. Sikka) writes:
>In article <1992Feb21.192207.9035@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@boucher.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>>.... Stuff Deleted
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>>left as an exercise for the reader.  (Hint: one point of difference is that
>>Minsky's ass is long dead, but he still keeps asking the NSF for more money.)
>>

I don't read messages from the above, but the text quoted in Sikka's
message appears to suggest that Zeleny believes I ask NSF for money.
Not true.  Many years ago, Papert's project had some NSF support, and
I contributed some time (w/o reimbursement) to that, but otherwise
I've never asked them for anything.  

I hope others will ask Zeleny to cease his obsessive and ill-informed
accusations.


