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From: John Brockman INIMM Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:27 PM To: Jeffrey E. Cc: Groff Lesley Subject: Edge Master Class 2015 JE, The Philip Tetlock EDGE Master class is coming together very nicely. It =romises to be the best thing we've ever pulled off. You should =ome. I still have about 30 people I haven't heard from (the =illionaires, that is), but we already have a strong group. Let me know. A SHORT COURSE IN SUPERFORECASTING with Philip E. Tetlock Friday, July 31- Sunday, August 2, 2015 Spring Mountain Vineyard, St. Helena, Napa Hotel: Harvest Inn, St. Helena "Tetlock is one of the very, very best minds in the social sciences =oday. He has come up with one brilliant idea after another, and =uperforecasting is no exception. Everyone agrees that the way to know =f an idea is right is to see whether it accurately predicts the =uture. But which ideas, which methods, which people have an actual, =rovable track record of non-obvious predictions vindicated by the =ourse of events? The answers will surprise you, and have radical =mplications for politics, policy, journalism, education, and even =pistemology—how we can best gain knowledge about the world we =ive in." —Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor, Harvard; Author, THE =ETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE. Attending (to date): • Stewart Brand, Founder, The Whole Earth Catalog; Co-Founder, =he Well; Co-Founder, The Long Now Foundation; Author, Whole Earth =iscipline • Rodney Brooks, Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus), =IT, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab; Founder, Chairman =nd CTO of Rethink Robotics. • George Dyson, Science Historian; Author, Project Orion; =uring's Cathedral • W. Daniel Hillis, Physicist, Computer Scientist, Pioneer in =assively parallel computation; Chairman of Applied Minds, Inc.; Author, =he Pattern on the Stone • Wael Ghonim, pro-democracy leader of the Tarir Square =emonstrations in Egypt; anonymous administrator of the Facebook page, =We are all Khaled Saeed", which helped spark the revolution leading to =ubarak's downfall. • Jennifer Jacquet, Assistant Professor of Environmental =tudies, NYU; Author, Is Shame Necessary? • Daniel Kahneman, Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of =sychology at Princeton; Author, Thinking, Fast and Slow; Winner of the =013 Presidential Medal of Honor; Recipient of the 2O02 Nobel Prize in =conomic Sciences • Salar Kamangar, Senior Vice President, Products, Google; =ormer head of YouTube • Dean Kamen, Inventor and Entrepreneur, DEKA Research • Andrian Kreye, Editor, The Feuilleton (Arts and Essays), of =he largest German National Daily Newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, =unich • Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research. =reviously, founder and director of DARPA's technology office tasked =ith supporting research in computing and related areas in the EFTA_R1_00037700 EFTA01745187 social =nd physical sciences. Former head of Carnegie Mellon University's =ationally top-ranked Computer Science Department and as CMU's Vice =rovost for Research. • Margaret Levi, Director, Center For Advanced Study in =ehavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University; Jere L. Bacharach =rofessor Emerita of International Studies, U. Washington • John Markoff, Science Correspondent, The New York Times; =uthor, Machines of Loving Grace • Barbara Mellers, Psychologist; George Heyman University =rofessor at the University of Pennsylvania; past President of the =ociety of Judgment and Decision Making • Dave Morin, Internet entrepreneur. Former Senior Platform =anager, Facebook; Co-inventor, Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect; =ounder & CEO, Path • Sean Parker, Partner, Founders Fund; Co-founder and Founding =resident, Facebook • Philip Tetlock, Political and Social Scientist; Annenberg =niversity Professor at UPenn; Author, Expert Political Judgment • Anne Treisman, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University =rofessor Emeritus of Psychology at Princeton; Recipient, National Medal =1 Science EDGE • John Brockman, Cultural Impresario; Founder and Editor, EDGE; =ounder, Brockman, Inc.; Author, The Third Culture • Katinka Matson, Co-Founder, EDGE; President, Brockman, Inc.; =rtist, katinkamatson.com More Information: http://edge.org/a-short-course-in-superforecasting [user id: edge_access; pw: edgeaccess] Best, JB ~MI John Brockman mobile •••••••.••••••••••••••••VO ••••••• • S.04••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••• Edge Foundation, Inc. 260 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10001 Visit the EDGE Website at: http://edge.org — "Deliciously =reative, the variety astonishes. 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