ricks@tekcad.UUCP (10/05/83)
#R:sri-arpa:-1215400:tekcad:22400002:000:1547 tekcad!franka Oct 4 09:11:00 1983 > **************** CONFERENCE **************** > > "Intelligent Systems and Machines" > > Oakland University, Rochester Michigan > > April 24-25, 1984 > > ********************************************* > >AUTHORS PLEASE NOTE: A Public Release/Sensitivity Approval is necessary. >Authors from DOD, DOD contractors, and individuals whose work is government >funded must have their papers reviewed for public release and more >importantly sensitivity (i.e. an operations security review for sensitive >unclassified material) by the security office of their sponsoring agency. Another example of so called "scientists" bowing to governmental pressure to let them decide if the paper you want to publish is OK to publish. I think that this type of activity is reprehensible and as con- cerned scientists we should do everything in our power to stop this cen- sorship of research. I urge everyone to boycott this conference and any others like it which REQUIRE a Public Release/Sensitivty Approval (funny how the government tries to make censorship palatible with different words, isn't it). If we don't stop this now, we may be passing every bit of research we do under the nose of beaureucrats who don't know an expert system from an accounting package and who have the power to stop publication of anything they consider dangerous. I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!!!! Frank Adrian (teklabs!tekcad!franka)