Re: Update re Edge Master Class
how many coming from boston area.
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 2:44 PM, John Brockman < > wrote:
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JE,
In terms of women, I don't see a problem with this list: Jennifer Jacquet, Katinka, Anne Treisman (Kahneman's wife) - no problem. Margaret Levi a savvy political scientist and a savvy lady, replaced Kosslyn at Stanford. Finally, Barbara Mellars, Tetlock's wife. I don't see a problem but I can check with two phone calls.
None of the guys who have accepted should have a problem. Fyi, ICahneman is ok. I should check with Tetlock. If anything, the only people might be the corporate guys I've yet to hear from. I could see the founders of the big companies unhappy if they got the Prince Andrew treatment by the press in terms of photos and reportage.
The only reporters are Markoff and Andrian Kreye (who you met) both friends who should be able to cover the event without mentioning you. Only one person to date has a blog.
Venter is close to agreeing to come. If he comes I will get Church with whom I just had breakfast. He will come if you fly out from Boston and give him a ride.
JB
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SUPERFORECASTING LIST - CONFIDENTIAL
PLANNING ON ATTENDING (to date):
We are planning on having about 30 attendees, drawn from previous Edge Master Classes, Seminars, Dinners. To date:
ATTENDEES
To date, the following have rsvp'd:
• Stewart Brand, Founder, The Whole Earth Catalog; Co-Founder, The Well; Co-Founder, The Long Now Foundation; Author, Whole Earth Discipline
• Rodney Brooks, Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus), MIT, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab; Founder, Chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics.
• George Dyson, Science Historian; Author, Project Orion; Turing's Cathedral
• W. Daniel Hillis, Physicist, Computer Scientist, Pioneer in massively parallel computation; Chairman of Applied Minds, Inc.; Author, The Pattern on the Stone
• Wael Ghonim, pro-democracy leader of the Tarir Square demonstrations in Egypt; anonymous administrator
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of the Facebook page, "We are all Khaled Saeed", which helped spark the revolution leading to Mubarak's downfall.
• Jennifer Jacquet, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU; Author, Is Shame Necessary?
• Daniel Kahneman, Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Princeton; Author, Thinking, Fast and Slow; Winner of the 2013 Presidential Medal of Honor; Recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
• Salar Kamangar, Senior Vice President, Products, Google; Former head of YouTube
• Dean Kamen, Inventor and Entrepreneur, DEICA Research
• Andrian ICreye, Editor, The Feuilleton (Arts and Essays), of the largest German National Daily Newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
• Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research. Previously, founder and director of DARPA's technology office tasked with supporting research in computing and related areas in the social and physical sciences. Former head of Carnegie Mellon University's nationally top-ranked Computer Science Department and as CMU's Vice Provost for Research.
• Margaret Levi, Director, Center For Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University; Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies, U. Washington
• John Markoff, Science Correspondent, The New York Times; Author, Machines of Loving Grace
• Barbara Mellers, Psychologist; George Heyman University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania; past President of the Society of Judgment and Decision Making
• Dave Morin, Internet entrepreneur. Former Senior Platform Manager, Facebook; Co-inventor, Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect; Founder & CEO, Path
• Sean Parker, Partner, Founders Fund; Co-founder and Founding President, Facebook
• Philip Tetlock, Political and Social Scientist; Annenberg University Professor at UPenn; Author, Expert Political Judgment
• Anne Treisman, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Princeton; Recipient, National Medal of Science
• Recording Artist; Songwriter; Artist in Residence, Spotify; Hi-Tech Investor
EDGE
• John Brockman, Cultural Impresario; Founder and Editor, EDGE; Founder, Brockman, Inc.; Author, The Third Culture
• Katinka Matson, Co-Founder, EDGE; President, Brockman, Inc.; Artist,
MAYBE
George Church
Nathan Myhrvold
Hans Ulrich Obrist
J. Craig Venter
SPECIAL CASE
This is all being handed by Tetlock. I am not in the loop. He is in touch with The Office of the DNI (General James Clapper) and there is talk about the possibility of Clapper attending. IARPA, which is under him, funds Tetlock's project. 1. There are major security issues about his traveling anywhere. It takes a lot of preparation; and 2. There are daily developments around the world which might require his attention.
Another issue, for EDGE, is do we want to be perceived as being connected with the national intelligence establishment.
AWAITING RESPONSE
Paul Allen
Yves Behar
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Jeff Bezos
Sergey Brin
Peter Diamandis
Jennifer Doudna
Jeffrey Epstein
Tony Fadell
Maja Hoffman
Mike Krieger
Ray Kurzweil
Marissa Mayer
Yuri Milner
Sendhil Mullainathan
Larry Page
Leon Panetta
Saul Perlmutter
Charles Simonyi
George Smoot
Rory Sutherland
Stephen Wolfram
REGRETS
Nicolas Berggruen
Nick Bostrom
Alfonso Cuaron
Daniel C. Dennett
Jesse Dylan
Freeman Dyson
Peter Gabriel
Demis Hassabis
Andre Linde
Ian McEwan
Tim O'Reilly
Steven Pinker
Nick Pritzker
Jacqui Safra
Stuart Russell
Jaan Tallin
Max Tegmark
Richard Thaler
Tim White
Evan Williams
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