From: Marvin L Minsky c To: Cecile de Jongh < >. Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Marvin Minsky aOl > 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,. Vernor Vinge, San Diego, CA "Timescape" "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 EFTA_R1_00031427 EFTA01741424

And perhaps you know this very ingenious Inventor-Manager, Michael Dubno (currently Head of research at Bank of America) EFTA_R1_00031428 EFTA01741425