Geoffrey Fox

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9 March 1995,

Dear sir,

It is my pleasure to recommend Alan Bond for a faculty position. I have known Alan for the past ten years since he and I first discussed how to do parallel artificial intelligence on the early hypercubes built by Caltech (Chuck Seitz) and JPL.

Alan has a rich experience in computer science with its applications to many real world problems and this has allowed him to develop a variety of outside skills and interests in neuroscience and psychology. With me he developed some of the early vision applications on the Hypercube and studied parallelism of computer aided design. We also collaborated on the start of his work on distributed artificial intelligence seems to me the centerpiece of much of his recent activity. This is a particularly promising area as the World Wide Web

Geoffrey Fox

Professor of Computer Science and Physics