<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>on behalf of Ed Boyden &lt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Sunday, March 16, 2014 1:16 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>Lesley Groff</td></tr><tr><td>Cc:</td><td>Neil Gershenfeld; Judith; Sebastian Seung; Jeffrey Epstein</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Re: Your CITICAR Confirmation</td></tr></table>

Just popping my head above water to catch up on email -- apologies that I seem to have set off a propagating inconvenience. Just by way of background, I'm juggling around $30 million in proposals that a lot of MIT folks are depending on, and have had to clear the slate to focus on these... sorry that this has led to a downstream cascade....

Ed

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Lesley Groff <  > wrote:
> Thank you all for your ideas/responses, but Jeffrey will no longer
> continue with the regular plan...we will be in touch about trying to
> 're-re-organize'!
>
> On Mar 14, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Neil Gershenfeld wrote:
>
> hmm, plan B is a dinner with Jeff and Ed without Jeff and Ed
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:25 PM, judith <  > wrote:
>>
>> I am in NYC this evening also.
>> Judith
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
>>
>>
>> Original message ------
>> From: Neil Gershenfeld
>> Date:03/14/2014 12:17 PM (GMT-05:00)
>> To: Sebastian Seung ,judith donath ,Lesley Groff ,Ed Boyden ,Jeffrey
>> Epstein
>> Subject: Re: Your CITICAR Confirmation
>>
>> typo, come as planned or give up and return early
>>
>> do hope we can still make this work, too difficult to align calendars
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Neil Gershenfeld
>> <  > wrote:
>>>
>>> Given the difficulty to schedule this, I'd also vote for Ed via
>>> video, or arm-twist Ed to take a just-in-time Shuttle to join. This
>>> isn't worth a heroic effort to re-re-schedule.

>>>

>> I am in NYC this afternoon, will keep an eye on email to come as
>>> planned to give up and return early.
>>>
>>> Neil
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Sebastian Seung <blackened out> wrote:
>>>> I agree...getting all of us in the same room at the same time is
>>>> obviously difficult, so four out of five isn't bad.
>>>> If it weren't for tonight's appointment, I would have been on a
>>>> plane yesterday headed for vacation with my family.
>>>> On Fri, Mar 14 2014, <blackened out> wrote:
>>>>> How about continuing with this evening's plan - and have Ed
>>>>> videoconf in for the amount of time he can?
>>>
>>>
>>
>

Ed Boyden, Ph. D.

Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group

Associate Professor and AT&T Chair, MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute,

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