JE: NOTES for our phone conversation

Here are the names collected to date. I know many of these folks and there's a wide range in how people are smart, so one of the questions is -- what experience would be interesting to you, what outcomes would be interesting or is this primarily about a good time in the moment.

A thought I've had is to work with Brockman to do an "Edge" conference -- could start small and scale. Some of the names on Roger's list are people JB knows well, like Kahneman, who is absolutely genius, fascinating. As long as there's not much work involved for Brockman, this might work. And TED has lost the sort of science that once was there -- some of these folks might be interested in another venue.

My birthday is tomorrow. Not such a big deal except that, in surprise acts of sweetness, different groups of friends are hosting parties tonight and tomorrow night and I've volunteered to make some things.... so today and tomorrow -- a little jammed. Wednesday a.m. is open.

Looking forward to talking!
xo
Stone

some quick questions:

I. how many?

are you comfortable with as many as 50 people? 100?

do you want to run this Foo style? as an unconference?

it works well, we can get the Foo folks to help.

in West Palm? do you have a venue there that you like?

want to make sure you can attend and that we plan around that.

do you have an office support person who can help with logistics/administration?
Any target date in mind? these folks often need at least 6 months.

NAMES FROM JE, and a few others

Stuart kauffman
George Paun

Chicago - Barnaby names (will get more names from Bamaby)

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John Cacioppo
Howard Nussbaum

Jim Heckman -- Univ. Chicago
Colin Camerer - CalTech
Steven Rose, London
Peter Tiel
David Sloan Wilson, works with Ed Wilson on evolution
Seth Lloyd
Terry Deacon

FROM ROGER SCHANK

Prof. Neil Gershenfeld; MIT; Physics

Risa Wechsler; Physics; Stanford University

George M. Church; Genetics, Harvard Medical School,

Dan Gilbert, Psychology, Harvard

Martin Nowak, Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University

Danny Kahnemann — Psychology; Princeton

Rob Goldstone — Psychology, Indiana

Steve Pinker --- Psychology, Harvard

Geoff Hinton --- Computer, Sci, U Toronto,

Daniel Povinelli — Chimps University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Stan Dehaene --- Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit; YVETTE, FRANCE

Michael Tomasello; Evolutionary Anthropology; GERMANY

Larry Gold; Molecular Biology; SomaLogic

Russ Altman; Bioengineering; Stanford

Eric Lander Genomics; MIT

Paul Horwitz; physicist working on a biology learning environment at Concord Consortium.

Sarah Michaels, anthropology/ed; Clark

David Hillis; biology; UT Austin

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A.J. Shaka; chemistry, UC Irvine

Craig Heller; physiology, Stanford Ted Kaptchuk Chinese medicine. Harvard Bob Metcalfe - Polaris Ventures, Boston Alvy Ray Smith - computer graphics

Mahzarin Banaji, Psychology, Harvard

Dan Ariely, Behavioral Economics. Duke

Larry Hunter, Biotinformatics, Colorado

Ellen Langer, Psychology, Harvard

FROM AL SECKEL

Nathan Mhyrvold
*Catherine Mohr
*Jay Walker
Christof Koch
*Terry Sejnowski
Danny Hillis
*Bran Ferren
Vilamur Ramachandran
Lisa Randall
Frances Arnold
Jesse Dylan
Larry Page
Elon Musk
Stephen Wolfram
Steve Juvertson
*Pablo Ho
Jaron Lanier
Craig Venter
paul Kirkaas
Yossi Vardi
*Eric Mjolsness
*Mike Douglas
Dean Kamen
*Shelly Glashow
*Derrick Ashong
James Cameron
*Ronald Crowley
*Jeffrey Lehman
Christine Maxwell
*Brock Pierce
*Rich Roberts
*Lee Stein
*Gerry Sussman

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*John Conway Dan Dubno Oust because he is very interesting)

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