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From: Joichi Ito Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 2:08 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Antidisciplinary Science Fellows Proposal Hi Jeffrey. Here's a rough proposal for a approximately $10M plan =or the science fellows. Let me know if this might work for the =oundation you were talking about. - Joi Proposal: Antidisciplinary Science Fellows =rogram MIT Media =ab April =016 The MIT Media Lab seeks support for a fellowship =rogram in Antidisciplinary Science. The Lab is a leader in this area, =hich promises to fundamentally rethink research and practice around =cientific inquiry. We seek $12 million to fund and operate the first =hree years of this fellowship program. Today, we face a crisis in science. Academic =cience is not leading to breakthrough innovations, and the disciplinary =tructures of the academy are largely to blame. Certain types of =esearch are recognized and rewarded, and become defined as disciplines. =s this happens, people begin talking only to a very small peer group, =ften by publishing in a small number of very specific journals. =eanwhile, we believe the most important scientific questions today =eside in the spaces between disciplines. In contrast to interdisciplinary work where people =rom different disciplines work together, the Media Lab is driven by =/span>antidisciplinary work. =nbsp;An antidisciplinary project isn't a sum of many =isciplines but something entirely new—the word defies easy =efinition. But what it means to the