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From: Jeevacation <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:49 AM To: Ben Goertzel Subject: Re: brief update, and question: Interested to fund the video recording and editing of the AG Summer School lectures, for $2K? Yes Sent from my iPhone On Apr 29, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Ben Goertzel < > wrote: > Hi Jeffrey, > Quick financial update: I've sorted out how to cover my own expenses > thru mid•July, via the investment Novamente received. > • I've been carrying on with the mathematical formalization stuff I've > been doing for the last couple months. > But the main topic of this email is: For 3 weeks in June/July I'll be > leading the world's first AGI Summer School, which will be in Xiamen, > China > http://www.goertzel.org/AGI_Summer_School_2009.htm > As with pretty much every such endeavor in the current economy, > funding is rather tight. We're right at the point where tuition from > students will match stipends to faculty (and note that my own stipend > will be covering my expenses for a couple weeks). > Some of the lectures are quite general in scope, and about 1/3 of them > are fairly specific to my OpenCog project. There will be 7 > international faculty giving the lectures, including me. > • I'd like to have the lectures effectively recorded and edited and > placed online, so as to educate folks who can't make it to China this > summer. > I don't trust the Chinese university to do this ... to make a long > story short, they have a special Chinese way of screwing things up. I > found someone (Raj Dye) who is enthused to record and edit the > lectures for free, but I need $2000 to cover his airfare and room and > board. Question is whether you're interested to donate $2K to the > summer school for this purpose. > •• Ben EFTA_R1_02003050 EFTA02684131 > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC > Director of Research, SIAI > Critical threshold: Being generally intelligent enough to be > disappointed by one's own lack of general intelligence <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1241092120</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>6</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>18737</string> </dict> </plist> 2 EFTA_R1_02003051 EFTA02684132