Special Cocoa Events

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 details...
Professor Joe Haldeman	September 06?	"I'd love to come, but will have to put it off till fall." (currently in Florida)
Professor Tom Leighton, Co-founder of Akamai	09/17/08	Discussed Akamai, its functions, and Course 6 in general.
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
Prof. Classy	03/06/2009	Got him to sit in front of the Sadoway poster.
Richard M. Stallman	09/20/06 11 p.m.
Joe Sousa, electrical engineer at Linear	1/17/06 9 p.m.

Notable Invitee(s)	Date Contacted	Comments
Cory Doctorow	02/13/06	Regretfully declined and now residing in London.
The Dalai Lama	04/23/09	Too busy during his visit to MIT

Notable Invitee(s)	Date Contacted
Professor Noam Chomsky	By 10/20/07
Eric Lander	By 10/23/07
President Susan Hockfield	By 11/01/07
Anne M Hunter	By 11/09/07
Weird Al Yankovic	Contacted via Ask Al, database error?
Professor Charles Vest	01/--/06
Strong Bad	01/16/06
Professor Max Tegmark	01/31/06; 02/02/06
Professor Eric Lander	02/13/06
Professor Noam Chomsky	02/22/06

People we want to invite for Cocoa - invite any of these people and move them to the above table:

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

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