What: Permission-to-use for "Technology and Courage", lecture delivered by
      Professor Ivan Sutherland in 1982 at Carnegie Mellon.

Original text states:
      "You may reproduce this document for any not-for-profit purpose.
      Reproduction for profit or where a royalty is paid to anyone requires
      prior permission from the author."

Below is the correspondence with Dr.Sutherland, the original author.

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From: Ivan Sutherand
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2023 7:23 PM
To: Mahesh Madhav
Cc: Marly Roncken; Juliet Sutherland

Because I know you have read Technology and Courage, you must know
about my own failure of the courage to publish it. I am sending a copy
of this email to Juliet, my daughter, whose efforts finally provided enough
courage to publish. I also send a copy to my wife, Marly Roncken, Research
Professor at PSU, who regularly offers me courage.

I never imagined that my little essay would become an Easter Egg. I am
charmed and delighted with your proposal. You and the SPEC benchmark
committee certainly qualify in my mind as EXACTLY the kind of not-for-profit
organization that should properly have free access to Technology and Courage.
I never expected Technology and Courage to become part of a benchmark.

I have been delighted with how many people have gained courage from
reading about my own failures of courage. As I grow older (now 85) I
recognize keenly that the Universe is expanding. It's further from my
shoulders to the floor. A flight of stairs has become longer. Airports are
larger than they used to be. Unfortunately my courage has failed to keep
pace. Courage to do even simple tasks remains in short supply, but folks
like you suggest that writing my little essay was not in vain.

May Technology and Courage continue do good in this new role.

Ivan Sutherland

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From: Mahesh Madhav
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2023
To: Ivan Sutherand

Hi Professor Sutherland,

I write to express my gratitude for your talk and essay, "Technology and
Courage". I also humbly ask if the SPEC CPU benchmark committee can use it as
a data input for a new benchmark suite. 

With a spirit of courageousness, I am asking you formally if the SPEC
non-profit organization may take your words and make them part of the storied
SPEC CPU benchmark suite.  

The final SPEC CPU suite will be sold commercially, just like all previous
incarnations. We want to ensure that all legal rights are squared away. It is
easy for me to choose another English language text to run OCR against, but I
would really love to include Technology and Courage in the next SPEC CPU
suite.  Please kindly let me know if you will consider it and allow it.

Thank you for inspiring generations of computer scientists!
Mahesh Madhav