Saturday, February 12, 2005
Center of Excellence Proposal
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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-