From: Marvin L Minsky c
To: Cecile de Jongh < >.
Cc: "jeevacation@gmail.com" <jeevacation©gmail.com>, Marvin Minsky
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Sent Friday, November 11, 2011 7:15:56 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 (cell) or (home).
Marvin
3 Science-Fiction Futurists
Gregory Benford,. "Timescape"
Vernor Vinge, San Diego, CA "True 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, "Watson" project at IBM
Roger Schank, early CommonSense AI Theories
Douglas Lenat, Cycorp (Austin TX). First "commonsensical" Al systems.
2 Harvard Genetics Researchers
Erez Lieberman
Corina Tarnita
Here is a prodigious young MIT/Harvard Student and Note-taker:
David Dalrymple
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And perhaps you know this very ingenious Inventor-Manager,
Michael Dubno
(currently Head of research at Bank of America)
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