--- a/CR_preface.txt	Thu Oct 31 10:46:58 2024 -0400
+++ b/CR_preface.txt	Thu Oct 31 11:56:34 2024 -0400
@@ -31,9 +31,37 @@
 Cambridge, where WCS was by then head of the new Center for the Study
 of World Religions at Harvard.
 
-Applied to Graduate School at MIT in EECS, started taking some
+[Applied to Graduate School at MIT in EECS, started taking some
 courses, but eventually MIT admin said be couldn't be admitted w/o a
-UG degree.
+UG degree.]
+
+Interested in being a social inquiry major, in order to study the
+politics of high technology, how we get to transferring to EECS from
+that goal is not clear.
+
+It was very quickly clear that the understanding of computing that the
+social scientists were critiquing was not [Programming in machine
+language] the computing that I know.  So I need to get clear on what
+computing really is, so that I can legitimately critique it.  So I
+thought I had to go into the heart of the beast, as it were.
+
+Terry Winograd provided the friendship and both social and 'official'
+support-structure to allow Brian to start to express himself out loud,
+as it were.  
+
+Saying to Fodor, ref. Tom Swift and his procedural grandmother, that
+"this is not how compilation worked", Fodor was blustery but
+open-minded enough to say "this is your subject area, I'm sure you're
+rightl tell me how it does work".  He and Fodor were friends, but
+later Fodor "curdled".
+
+Dog hanging on to a scented cloth -- sitting at the console of a 360
+and keying in instructinos and debugging by staring at the pattern of
+lights that the console frooze in.
+
+Articulating an understanding of computing that would do justice to his
+intuitive understanding of computing as he had experienced it is the
+theme of all his intellectual work.
 
 "Course on compilers, I had written a compiler, I'd written a tiny OS
 for a PDP-9 running a physics experiment".  Pat Winston sat me down
@@ -42,7 +70,11 @@
 took a paper from a course he'd taken in the autumn, called "Comments
 on Comments", and added some stuff, it got marked and accepted as his
 thesis, so awarded the degree and could actually be enrolled as a
-student under the supervision of Peter Szolovits.  The Media Lab was
-located in MIT's Building 20, just underneath the Artificial
-Intelligence Lab, then under the direction of ??.
+student under the supervision of Peter Szolovits.
+
+[CSLI not particularly relevant]
 
+[CPSR?]
+
+
+