To: jeevacation©gmail.com[jeevacation@gmail.con]; Marvin L Minsky( Cc: jeevacation©gmail.com[jeevacation©gmail.com]; Marvin Minsky[ From: Cecile de Jongh Sent: Tue 11/15/2011 3:10:22 PM Subject: Re: Some other Possible Invitees for NEXT conference Marvin. Are we going ahead with these folks? We only have five people attending thus far and I need to give at least ten names to the hotel. With warm regards, Cecile DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this e-mail may be privileged,confidential, and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies. From: Marvin L Minsk To: Cecile de Jongh < Cc: "jeevacation©gmail.com" <jeevacationajgmail.com>; Marvin Minsky < INIMm. Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 2:15 PM Subject: Some other Possible Invitees for NEXT conference Dear Jeffrey, I know it is late, but here are 10 extremely smart and interesting people. (Probably, only 2 or 3 could come on short notice.) Can we quickly discuss them briefly? I'll be at 6 1611) (home). Marvin 3 Science-Fiction Futurists Gregory Benford,. 9IlimiliSISSISINISPIN"Timescape" Vernor Vinge, San Diego, CA 92182-7720 "Mae Names" Bonnie MacBird First author of "TRON" movie) (wife of Alan Kay) 2 Computer Pioneers Alan Kay, First personal computers at Xerox, Atari, and Apple Tom Knight, (computer graphics hardware and genetics) Question: Is G. Church OK with him? 3 AI Pioneers in "Commonsense Knowledge and Reasoning" Erik Mueller, h3 "Watson" project at IBM EFTA_R1_00488035 EFTA01994148 Roger Schank early CommonSense AI Theories Douglas Lenat, Cycorp (Austin TX). First "commonsensical" AI systems. 2 Harvard Genetics Researchers Erez Lieberman Corina Tarnita Here is a prodigious young MIT/Harvard Student and Note-taker: David Dalrymple 2,!stIlittteet.SISI And perhaps you know this very ingenious Inventor-Manager, Michael Dubno t (currently Head of research at Bank of America) EFTA_R1_00488036 EFTA01994149