<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>jeffrey E. &lt;jeevacation@gmail.com&gt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Thursday, August 6, 2015 4:04 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>Joi Ito</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Re: Jeff Hawkins</td></tr></table>

http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2013/04/13/are-small-private-colleges-trouble/ndIYSWVGFAUjYVWkqnjfK/story.html <http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2013/04/13/=re-small-private-colleges-trouble/ndIYSWVGFAUjYVWkqnjfK/story.html> it could be like the ho=warts

O= Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Joi Ito <████████████> =rote:

Buy somethi=g in Boston. :-)

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 6, 2015, =t 08:46, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com» wrote:

never met. , . Ther= are a bunch of beautufl schools for sale. . Im thinking=about buying one and populating it with the unusual.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:40=AM, Joichi Ito > wrote:

Hmm.

BTW, do you know Jeff Jonas? He's smart about data stuff. I =99m using his boat for the next 3 days. He's an investor in my fun=. He is the guy who busted the MIT Blackjack team. He's at IBM, bu= he lives in Vegas and busts bad guys using data.

Dec=ding Jeff Jonas, Wizard of Big Data
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/innovators/2014/05/140505-jeff-jonas-big-data-gambling-compute-s-technology-ibm>

http://news.nat=onalgeographic.com/news/innovators/2014/05/140505-jeff-jonas-big-data-gamb=ing-computers-technology-ibm <http://news.nationalgeographic.c=m/news/innovators/2014/05/140505-jeff-jonas-big-data-gambling-computers-te=hnology-ibm>

He might be=fun for you to meet.

- Joi

On Aug 6, 2015, at 8:38 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.corn<P» wrote:

i think ibm took numenta in ho=se

On T=u, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Joichi Ito <joi@media.mit.edu> w=ote:

> Begin forwarded message:

>

> From: Ed Boyden

> Subject: Re: Jeff Haw ins

> Date: August 6, 2015 at 8:33:31 AM PDT

> To: Joichi Ito

> Reply-To:

>

> I have talked to his second-in-command, Donna Dubinsky. In fact =he

> guest lectured for my neuroventures class, about their AI/brain

> startup, Numenta (she is CEO).

>

> Off the record comments:

>

> One key issue with their work is that it's a model that attempts t=

> mimic brain maps -- but again, as with the European Human Brain

> Project, we don't yet have brain maps. So there are a lot of=br> > assumptions built

into their models.

> Perhaps as a result, their models haven't done much. I think=Numenta

> finally kind of gave up on trying to develop big hits with their Al

> http://numenta.org/

> But I'm not sure any major outputs have happened yet.

>

> Best,

> Ed

>

> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Joichi Ito

<mailto:joi@m-dia.mit.edu> wrote:

» Have you guys talked to Jeff Hawkins?

>>

» Is his AI/brain stuff interesting?

>>

>> - Joi

>>

>>

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