Saturday, September 11, 2004
Background material on why a National Project is required
Bertie Kaal,
John Benjamins Publishing Co
When you were recommended to me as someone who might publish the online book...
http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/pprueitt/book.htm
we were optimistic about an opportunity to do some serious editing and get this work into a book.
You then asked one of your experts to look at the material. His response was a suggestion that no one would want to read "this".
As you know from the correspondence, there is an opinion forming that a specific "hidden" intellectual bias exists within the publication industry and that this bias might have been what was involved in the review by the expert. The issue may have two aspects
1) stove piping of professional activities and competition between these groups
2) the understandable problem in objecting to a specific aspect about "accepted" scholarship , ie the artificial intelligence claims regarding potential capabilities of computer programs, and attempting to develop a viable alternative.
Our concerns have been that this bias also exists in peer review at NSF, NIST and DARPA and that such bias is blocking the development of a valuable new approach to information science.
Do you mind if we have an open e-mail discussion about this possibility, where I would involve perhaps 20 other scholars and you might make a second inquiry about the reception that “Knowledge Foundations" might have if edited and prepared for a market.
I am suggesting this as a means to prepare a new group proposal to Mitre [108] regarding novelty detection in massive databases. We are struggle to find a rational explanation as to why the proposals we have been developing have come close but have not as yet been successful.
The result of this exercise might be a call for papers to support the new paradigm, perhaps including some of the papers that I have gathered for this purpose at:
http://www.ontologystream.com/area1/Computer&Cognition/Index.htm
Dr. Paul S. Prueitt
Director BCNGroup