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9 April 1953 

MEMORANDUM FOR MR. W. F. FRIEDMilif 

Subject: SCAMP, Mrs. Brewer's Comments on. 

l. Clearance is a severe handicap. So is security after 

the clearances are made. 

2. The Los Angeles area has many things to recommend it. 

a) Many mathematicians spend their summers there, 

so that the mat~ematical community is active 

and stimulating. 

b) The summer climate and the surrounding attractions are such that a scientist can accept this 

summer employment and feel that he is not cheating his family out o'f a vacation by so doing. 

c) The number of other places offering the Bare 

minimum of office space, library, temporary 

housing, and computer is very limited. 

3. I ~ree that there is a certain confusion of objectives. 

~he interest in computers is to make quickly available to operations any teclmiques invented. But the main object is to invent 

techniques. 

4. I agree wholeheartedly. 
9 April 1953 

MEMORAMDUM FOR MR. W. F. JmimW{ 

Subject: Comment on Jane P. ·Bi-ewer's comments on sc.AMP-1953 

I shall t~e up Mrs. Brewer~s points in her order and shall 

use her numbering. 

1. I concur. However, -we are endeavo~ing to rectify this 

with the help of NSA-16. 

2. I disagree. Los Angeles offers much more than Washington. 

It offers an attractive location to mat~emat1c1ans and this is 

essential to the success of SC.AMP. - Furthermore, we are not interested in having a greater number of NSA employees participating. 

In SCAMP we are primarily interested in getting outside participation. 

3. I disagree. The problem of how to use computers properly 

is basic to the Agency but should not be disC11ssed completely, at 

this time. However, Mrs. Brewer is suffering under the same delusion that too ~ people in NSA. are. It is not true that cryptanalysts who do not lmow what computers can do or how they work can 

solve a problem and then present it to a programm~r. The existence 

of high-speed computers has changed the definition of solution. If 

members of SCAMP are going to develop techniques for solving Agency 

problems they must understand the definition of solution and this 

implies understanding something about computers and programming. 

4. I agree. We are preparing a list of problems to present 

to the members of SCAMP along with the write-up of last year's work 

on Finite Projective Planes and a new write-up on problems in 

Convex Bodies. 

R. A. LEI:BLER 

Chief 

Mathematical Research Division 
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None of my people is interested in attending 

SCAMP 1953 if it is to be held far from Washington. Mrs. Jane Brewer, who took part in SCAMP 195~ has 

given me some coD'Ullents which I inclose, since 

they may be of use in planning for this year or 

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TO !11 AA-1~ DATE: 2 Apr 53 

FROM 412B6 

SUBJECT: SCAMP 1953 

1. Work at SCAMP 1952 was so hampered by the lack or clearance for all 

participants that I believe the expense of SCAMP 1953 will not be justified 

unless adequate clearances can be obtained. 

2. The cost or SCAMP may be unnecessarily high if it is held in Los 

Angeles again. More than half the participants, NSA personnel included, live 

in the eastern section of the country. Los Angeles does not appear to offer 

anything essential to the success of SCAMP that eannot be found in Washington. 

Furthermore, if per diem and transportation costs are not involved, a greater 

number of NSA employees can participate. 

3. The program proposed seems excessively slanted toward computer · techniques. Most of the (discrete) problems involved are a very long way 

from the computing stage at present. Obviously, people working on them now 

need to know what can or cannot be done with high speed computing equipnent, 

but when a problem approaches the computing stage, it is time to consult a 

computer specialist, not a topologist. Mathematicians doing research on NSA 

problems have neither,the time nor the inclination to listen (as they did last 

summer) to lectures on elementary programming techniques, engineering aspects 

of computer components, and the computer solution of toy problems related only 

tangentially t~ the principal problems under consideration. 

4. It is probably true that the greatest long range benefit will be 

obtained by not restricting SCAMP to a set of specific problems; however, such 

a set should certainly be presented in order to give direction to research and 

to enable the participants to decide themselves what approaches are most likely 

~o lead to results bearing on problems of interest to NSA. 

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