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Saturday, February 12, 2005

The BCNGroup Beadgames

 

National Project à

Challenge Problem  à

Center of Excellence Proposal à 

 

Where are we in the Planning Process

 

Nathan communicated:

 

Things are going well.

 

I had a good discussion with Peter yesterday and agreed on a way to allow us to get some real example data from the state without breaching security.

 

Having real data will enable me to better design the tools we need and begin to apply the attack data to the repository.  He discussed what it was he wants out of the repository more succinctly.

 

Thus, I now have a good functional model to start building. I have solved a lot of issues, and have only one more, design issue anyways, that I have to work out yet.

 

This should be quite quick, relatively speaking, to stand this up.

 

The work on the GBG continues.

 

The only thing at this time is propagating metadata, which I am working on a parser for to automatically tag the beads with XML. It just reduces the immediate need for me to manually generate metadata for nearly 600 html/word/pdf files.

 

Nathan

 

 

Dick Ballard communicated:

 

Paul:

 

I am collecting responses in anticipation of new 5th Chapter on Mediating Structures. Work has begun in earnest here on completing Mark 3 Alpha backend programming over next 2 months. Work on use of model-webs in creating explicit theory-based semantic definitions is bearing great fruit here, so templates and semantic grammars are emerging as dramatically simple and elegant.

 

Good luck in your progress too.

 

Dick

 

Sandy Klausner communicated:

 

Paul,

 

I read the Scientific Discovery Within Data Streams paper (PNNL: Cowell, Havre, May and Sanfilippo) that you forwarded to me with great interest.

 

CoreSystem's Service Context architecture deals concretely with the issues raised by this paper in regards to providing the required tools to enable knowledge workers to effectively create, share, and process diverse component streams.

 

Using the existing CoreSystem technology, the National Labs and associated DHS/Customs knowledge technology development and transitioning programs can provide an analytical environment for this type of scientific discovery.

 

Sandy

 

Ben Goertzel communicated:

 

Thanks for the recent communications.  My bioinformatics product is doing well... we are not generating vast riches but staying above water and doing good science.  At some point I'd like to merge this linguistics/engineering team into the biology project and do bio-text-mining.  I like the architecture in the Scientific Discovery Within Data Streams paper .

 

Ben

 

 

 

Communication from Jeff

 

I am highly supportive of your goals of overcoming historic barriers to change. 

 

Like you, I believe that change typically comes when the fear of not changing exceeds the fear of change itself. 

 

I don't know whether the 'old guard' knows enough yet to fear the house of IT cards built in past years, but I do concur that we technologists must recognize the inherent and unavoidable political nature of the programs we wish to influence.

 

Like you, I am driven to these goals as a patriot. 

 

Our country must possess the best damn information infrastructure in the world, lest we cede our position of hegemony to others who build it first. 

 

The race for information is today's arms race; the technologies we advocate (ontology, inference, mediation, and graph data repositories) are the sources of our future strengths and information capabilities.

 

I will not be able to attend Tuesday's meeting with XYZ’s leadership.  I am highly supportive of the K-12 initiative and would like to offer additional help in that capacity. 

 

Regards,

 

-Jeff-