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