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From: trump@elaine45.stanford.edu (Michael Jason Lewis)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: The Media Lab
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Date: 30 Apr 91 06:17:56 GMT
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Having just read _The_Media_Lab_ by Stweart Brand, I have been struck by a bolt
of white light, obviously engineered by someone above, that has instructed me
to apply my life's work to this VR field.

Actually, it wasn't quite that exciting, but I do think that it would be an
interesting way to spend a career--and as a college freshman, I have the 
opportunity to follow this desire up.

Wishing to learn from the masters, though, I would like to visit the AI/Media
Lab and speak to some of these geniuses in their natural habitats.  I am about
to interview John McCarthy, the founder of the Stanford AI Lab, but I would 
also like to see the foundation at MIT.

Therefore, I ask these questions:

        1)  Is the lab general-access (guided tours, etc.) or can anyone get in?

                        That was so incredibly stupid, I have
                stunned myself.  Change the second clause to 
                read "or must you be authorized to get in?"

        2)  For anyone on the Stanford campus or related to it:  Is there any
                way I can get a research-type grant to go visit this place or
                do I have to fly cross-country on my own cash?

Thank you for your time.

                                        Mike Lewis
                                        trump@leland.stanford.edu