To: Jeffrey Epsteinueevacation©gmail.com]
From: Kosslyn, Stephen
Sent: Sat 3/20/2010 4:53:40 PM
Subject: Re:

Title: Re: Greetings from Palm Springs, where the baking is easy (I cannot figure out why anybody would voluntarily live in this place).

I had a marathon interview session on Tuesday, started at 10:30 with the pickup and drive from SF to Silverlake Parners HQ, and went until 5:00. A revolving cast of characters came and went. They appear to have bought my "vision" (integrate the Center with Silicon Valley). It helped a lot that I talked to Peter Norvig (Director of Research for Google) the day before, and ran a bunch of ideas by him. Although not everybody was equally enthusiastic about my ideas during the interviews, the ones that were appear particularly important. I have to meet with two guys in NYC on Wednesday (they couldn't make it to Palo Alto), and then I guess we'll see.

Meanwhile, radio silence from NYU. This isn't surprising: a) the head hunter told me it would take 3 weeks, which leaves one to go; b) I was the first of the three finalists to be interviewed, and it took forever to set it up, so the 3 weeks was probably optimistic; c) I'm not going to be offered the Dean job (I would bet on this), but Sexton (the president) wants me there in some capacity — and he needs to come up with the niche (he's also been on the road constantly for the past two weeks, which may slow things down).

life goes on.

I hope you are well.

s

On 20/3/10 10:54 AM, "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

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Stephen M. Kosslyn
Dean of Social Science
John Lindsley Professor of Psychology
in Memory of William James
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Harvard University
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