Discussion point on the ignition of the National Project planning process

The "size" of the core team is the primary issue.

The groups that may contribute to a core team each has a history of being under funded BECAUSE of the nature of the deployment of ontology services.

Jim Hendler, for example, has a solid belief in how Semantic Web technologies can be developed that uses XML in RDF expressions. However, the AI polemic - this false notion that a computer will become self aware and "alive", has made his position difficult to sell to real deployment activities. Program managers are tired of AI type things, and yet burned to the degree that they will not consider anything new.

Likewise for the Human-centric Information Production (HIP) use of formative and differential ontology using Orbs. The AI polemic makes our simple message hard to get across when mainstream science fiction is painting a picture of an AI future where humanity must fight for survival against robots.

Semantic Web (Hendler and Berners Lee) has one path towards machine computable information, whereas the Anticipatory Web (Prueitt et al) has a path towards the simplification of computer science to core mathematical concepts, and the rejection of all things AI polemic.

Reasoning is then, in HIP, something that humans always need to do. categoricalAbstraction (cA) and eventChemistries (eC) are then about the objective science regarding data regularity in context (CoreTalk) and the patterns of behavior that are useful in exchanging data or facilitating human to human communication.

At one point the core team members will identify themselves, but right now the core team is limited to 6 - 10.

The ignition can occur with 6 core team members, because the ignition is a phenomenon that depends more on current environmental exo-physics where the needs for total information awareness and informational transparency are related to

1) the Asymmetric Threat

2) B-2-B, B-2-C productivity gains

(An extended discussion about this is occurring in the Groove knowledge space collaborative space:

for invitation call Paul 703-981-2676)

Communication from Jim Hendler

At 9:08 -0500 12/13/04, Paul Prueitt wrote:

>The "size" of the core team is the primary issue.

[snip]

All - somehow this message got through my spam filter - usually all mail from Paul is directed to trash unseen. Let me state categorically that I have nothing to do with this email nor with this project, I in no way endorse any aspect of it, nor do I believe my own views and statements are portrayed in anyway resembling the truth of what I believe, which is easily found in my writings on the Semantic Web.

-Jim Hendler

Professor James Hendler http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler

Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696

Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax)

Reply from Nathan

Jim;

I do understand your e-mail and regret that you feel this way. I would, however, like to challenge you from a scientific level to honestly take a look at and compare our Anticipatory Web with your Semantic Web, and the various associated technologies that have been developed.

Specifically, I would like to see your comments and initiate a discussion among other scientists about the role of what we call Human-centric Information Processing (HIP) or any other philosophy on the human role in semantic or anticipatory web structures. Our groups opinions on this will most likely differ, but that is exactly what we're looking for. It's what science is all about.

The idea here is to have a truly scientific discussion to bring technologies forward that can be directly applied into problems to help people.

I could be wrong, but isn't that what it's all about? Lets start co-operating within diverse scientific circles and expand the horizons of technology to further all mankind.

I do appreciate your consideration of this matter. If you are interested, we can begin to put together material about our own technologies and philosophies, put this material out for review and then begin the discussions.

Take care. I hope all is well with you. I look forward to the possibility of having a number of good scientific discussions with you and your group.

Yours truly,

Nathan Einwechter