From: oded@ai.mit.edu (Oded Maron)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 13:34:12 -0500
To: all-ai
Subject: GSB - Today, 2/9 at 5:30


Have you ever wanted to act in a major motion picture?  Did you ever
think "oh, that Francis Ford Coppola - he's such a hack.  I could do a
better job"?  Do you look at Tom Cruise and say to yourself "why can't
I have all of that?"  Did you ever want to put down "grip" as your job
title?

Well, here is your chance.  The AI Lab, in conjunction with Universal
Studios, Japanese Educational Television, and Nintendo, is proud to
restructure itself as the AI STUDIO.  The AI STUDIO will provide
space, capable graduate students, and faculty support for innovative
film projects ranging from commercials, to animated shorts, to
block-buster full action features.

To this end, both the 9th and 8th floors will be dedicated as the "AI
STUDIO MANIFOLD".  Some parts of the 7th and 4th floor will also be
used.  Research, of course, will still go on.  However, it is
requested that people only do research in the following areas: offices
753, 769, 706, and the elevator lobby.

The funds generated by the AI STUDIO will be used to make sure that
research in those areas can flurish.  In addition, we no longer need
to worry about budgets for GSL or the AI Olympics.

All lab members are required to turn in a resume and head shot at
today's GSB.  We will have some beverages and decide who will be the
next Arnold, and who will be the next Quentin.

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The above dramatization is based on actual events.  To hear more about
the sordid plot, come to today's

G   I   R   L      S   C   O   U   T      B   E   N   E   F   I   T

at 5:30, 7th floor playroom.