From: To: Ben Goertzel Cc: jeffrey epstein cjeevacation®gmail.com> Subject: Re: Hello from Jeffrey Epstein's Foundation Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 14:11:31 +0000 Hi Ben, This is great. Thank you so much. I'll read through everything and get a draft back to you for review. Thank you also for clarifying the funding. Until soon! And best regards, On Aug 15, 2014, at 5:17 AM, Ben Goertze > wrote: Hi (and Jeffrey) I took some time on the flight from DC to Addis Ababa today to write down a few thoughts about iCog Labs (see below). Of course this is more than you will need for your article but you can pick and choose as you wish ;) By the way, technically, Epstein Foundation hasn't actually funded iCog Labs or the OpenCog researchers working there. Epstein Foundation has funded the OpenCog Hong Kong effort, which has been **very very very** much appreciated; but the $$ provided all went to the Hong Kong effort, to help with the 10% "matching funding" required as part of our government research grant there. iCog Labs was seed-funded by Maryland investor Sander Olsen, and currently is self-supporting based on consulting revenues. If Jeffrey would like to support OpenCog R&D at iCog Labs, that would be awesome. NOW, since Jeffrey has been so generous to me over the years, and has also helped with OpenCog HK, I don't mind there being a press release associating Epstein Foundation with iCog Labs. I'm just describing the situation for you in detail so that you can be sure the wording in your article accurately reflects reality. Thanks Ben Goertzel here goes: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA AND ETHIOPIA Marc Andreesen observed some time ago that "software is eating the world"; it is now beginning the process of ingesting sub-Saharan Africa. As well as South Africa, other African nations such as Kenya and Nigeria have had flourishing software startup ecosystems for many years now. IBM has put Watson supercomputers in EFTA00693914