Special Cocoa Events

As a hall tradition since 2006, we have been inviting faculty and staff members, as well as other notables, to cocoa. We hope Special Cocoa promotes closer interaction between students and faculty members. Below is a table of whom we have contacted and have accepted, their responses, and planned Special Cocoas, if any.

Accepted Invitation

Notable Invitee(s)	Scheduled Cocoa	Comments
Professor Jeremy Wolfe	02/21/06, 8 p.m.	SUCCESS!!!
Harmonix Software Developers	02/27/06, 7 p.m.	Discussed startups and the future of the gaming industry.
Dr. Geoffrey A. Landis and Dr. Mary A. Turzillo	03/13/06, 7 p.m.	SPECTACULAR!!!
Dr. Robert Granetz	First week in April	"candy, you say?"
Markos Hankin	Pending ...	Mark A. has further details...
Professor Joe Haldeman	September 06?	"I'd love to come, but will have to put it off till fall." (currently in Florida)
Senior Advisor Kirk Kolenbrander	04/11/06	Discussed East vs West at MIT, benefits of a hall environment, rush, hacking.
Electronic Max, 6.034 TA	Night of Formal Cocoa	Talked about 4e way back, discussed grad school, looked at Max's AI research
Richard M. Stallman	09/20/06 11 p.m.
Joe Sousa, electrical engineer at Linear	1/17/06 9 p.m.

Declined Invitation

Notable Invitee(s)	Date Contacted	Comments
President Susan Hockfield	January 06	Never!
Cory Doctorow	02/13/06	Regretfully declined and now residing in London.

Waiting for Response

Notable Invitee(s)	Date Contacted
Professor Charles Vest	January 06
Strong Bad	01/16/06
Professor Max Tegmark	01/31/06; 02/02/06
Professor Eric Lander	02/13/06
Professor Donald Sadoway	02/13/06
Professor Noam Chomsky	02/22/06

To Be Invited

People we want to invite for Cocoa (feel free to invite any of these people and move them to the above table):

• Dean Larry Benedict
• Professor Junot Diaz
• Professor Suzanne Flynn
• Professor Sheldon Glashow (Harvard/BU)
• Professor Alan Guth
• Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
• Senator John Kerry (D-MA)
• Andrew Ryder
• Professor Alex Slocum
• President Larry Summers (Harvard)
• Professor Gerald Jay Sussman
• Professor Alar Toomre
• Max Van Kleek
• Professor Derek Walcott (BU)

Please add anybody else to this list if you would like to invite them to Special Cocoa.