From: Cecile de Jongh To: Marvin L Minsky Cc: "- Marvin Minsky Subject: Re: Some other Possible Invitees for NEXT conference Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:27:42 +0000 >, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Hi Marvin, Did you get my email with all the travel information? With warm regards, Cecile Sent from my iPhone On Nov 11, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Marvin L Minsky Dear Jeffrey, H wrote: 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,. . "7in:escape" Vernor Vinge, San Diego, CA 92182-7720 "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, h "Watson" project at IBM Roger Schank, early CommonSense AI Theories Douglas Lenat, Cycorp (Austin TX). First "commonsensical" AI systems. EFTA00687322

2 Harvard Genetics Researchers Erez Lieberman Corina Tarnita Here is a prodigious young MIT/Harvard Student and Note-taker. David Dalrymple cell And perhaps you know this very ingenious Inventor-Manager, Michael Dubno (currently Head of research at Bank of America) cell EFTA00687323