Foresight Conference 2010
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Jan 18, 2010 10:17 AM  Exclt conference... def worth going to ... fun... great assortment of people.
130 attendees;  98% showed up.  
 
Automatic Discovery luncheon sunday was at Reposado. org by Will Ware ... see below.
Automated discovery ...  cud it with narrow AI and or with fully general AI.
at our table  Larry Millstein (we walk together),  Joseph Jackson,  Phil Wolf,
Michael Vassar new pres of Sing Inst,  Michael Anissimov,
Jeff Olson  soulful guy from Motorola,  Steve Knutson  (software comp fndr)
John Chisolm  MITCNC, Santa Fe Instit.  (just moved from Sand Hill Circ to SF).
 
 
Getting to hotel... Sheraton PA...  go str down Palm drive and do NOT turn R on El Camino.
Rather ...  turn where buses turn and you go str into the Sheraton PA and park in their lot.
Cost is $2 for first hr etc.  (expensive) but CHRIS validates parking card.
 
<b>CHRIS</b>  (Christine Peterson) ...  has moved to Sunnyvale.  Will run a conference on
<b>Longevity</b> in next few months.  Recoms  Zone diet (Barry Sears) to smooth out energy.
 
<b>Janet Rae-Dupree  journalist </b>... fantastic note-taker ... offers me her notes for free ...
takes down every word on a Samsung netbook;  SValley has been her beat since 1993.
She sells articles to magazines and newspapers.  lives in Half Moon Bay.
tele is  650  726-8552   sci/tech journalist; emails her notes to me.  mentions Zinio.
<b>janet@raedupree.com </b>  www.raedupree.com
 
Eric Blossom  ???? last name...  paleo  diet...<b> CrossFit.com</b>
Reno or Sacramento ????  don't remember.  NO grains,  
 
<b>Joseph P Jackson III </b>josephjackson@gmailcom;  opensciencesummit@gmail.com
tele  803 239-7960  Open Science Summit 2010 and also  DYI Biology  lives in
Mtn View near Hackers Dojo;  room-mates are biologists.
wants to do  $100 PCR.  We met at least once before... smart, good guy.  connected
from  the South.
 
<b>David Friedman, </b>PhD  Prof at Santa Clara Univ  www.davidfriedman.com was
absolutely memorable... the BEST SPEAKER.  Son of Milton Friedman.
Clear, smart as a whip.  No powerpoint, almost no notes;
loves David Ricardo  (as does  Robin Hanson);  Big Q: how does the FIXED COST
of designing nanotech get paid for.... same issue as with Intel prop.  like a book or
a car or a bldg... how to pay for the design?
 
<b>John Chisholm</b>  (head of MITCNC);  big shot in MIT NC;  for Chm/CEO of CustomerSat...
JOhn was in my Autmoatic Science luncheon... nice guy ... lives in SF, used to live
on Sand Hill Circle til recnetly  (mother is still there).  I recommend AI-Meetup to him.
 
<b>Michael Anissimov</b>  works with Michael Vassar below.
MIchael is age 25... gave an exclt talk at conf. on AI... really good summary of
AI.  def. see it again, if poss ... a great talk.  Media Direc of Sing Instit.
 
Michael Vassar took over Tyler Emerson's job at Sing INstit ... he tells me about
Darpa project ... Luke's goggles;  v smart; at the luncheon.  
 
<b>Melanie Swan</b>  see website ... melanieswan.com  many overlapping interests...
? lives in PA.  ?  prob married to Emerson Swan  see Cygnussoft.  ? Palo Alto;
 
<b>Will Ware</b>  Boston ... great guy... out of work programmer in Framingham;
he organized the Automatic Science luncheon ... see his notes. fat;
 
Hod Lipson ... great talk, prof at Cornell;  mech engr;  see ted talk;
www.mae.cornell.edu/Lipson
 
Josh Hall  Pres of Foresight.
 
ERIC BLOSSOM was the guy that I walked with  (no grains; low glycmeic diet...
he recommends CrossFit.com
 
 
robin Hanson ...  exclt talk;  he poo-pooed my idea abt freq polling (he might be right)
He simply said  ... don't know what correct freq is.
 
Salim Ismail  Exec Direc of Sing Univ ... exclt talk;
 
Larry Millstein  good talk abt  DNA sequencers ... Pacific Biosci rocks!!!
reads it out in realtime using DNA Polymerase reaction as it is synthesizing the
complemenaty strand.
 
Jeff Olson  works for Motorola ... thoughtful, wearing Hood cap;  cool guy. smart in
the luncheon...
 
Stan Knutson ... tall and thin ...   stanleyknutson.com... lives in SF
 
<b>WILL WARE</b>  organized the auto science luncheon...  <b>willware.blogspot.com</b>
fat;  out of work programmer... smart, nice  lives in Framingham Mass.
ADAM the robot scientist  Scinece Apr 2009  Ross King  automated lab to do
yeast experiments...  it gens hypotheses and tests them in the lab.
 
<b>Rob Freitas</b> ...  suit and tie ... well spoken, tall, distinguised but he HATES 
public speaking  ... quite well spoken in person.  Ralph Merkle gave an homage
to him on his resch.  Rob trained as a lawyer.  Lives in Sacto!  not in touch
with Drexler.  (Eric Drexler is doing bio-based stuff now)  I ask him abt insulin
7 nano pores ... he does not know  (he is familiar with project but has not kept up)
familiar with bio-fouling of pores;
 
<b>Larry Millstein</b> was the v first speaker: was bio grad student at UCSD ? before law school.
I chatted with him;  short
 2 leading sequencing machines from Ilumina and
from Helicos; will do whole genome for $50k;
his favorite (fantastic) is Pacific Bioscience  qv...  see video on my website.
do single molecule... eavesdrop on DNA polymerase;
another company is  Visigen  (bot by invitrogen)  that does DNA polymerase;
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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