August 10, 2005
Center of Excellence Proposal
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A random
message to one of the new start up IT companies working with government and
venture capital funding. The response is typical.
Sent:
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:51 AM
To: info
Subject: Roadmap for semantic technology
please forward this to someone and have them call me
Dr Paul S Prueitt
Director BCNGroup
Founder OntologyStream
Sent: Wednesday,
June 08, 2005 2:22 AM
Paul,
Thank you for your email. I will circulate your information
internally and I expect that one of the folks from either my team or our
engineering team will be interested in the work you have done in the past.
Thank you,
-TR
TR
VP Marketing
& Product Management
Sent:
Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:21 PM (two
months later)
To: TR
Subject: RE:
Roadmap for semantic technology
I just
noticed a past communication from you.
I am working with some conceptual maps of IP in the semantic technology
domain. We would like to talk about
some value that your corporation might derive from these maps.
Dr Paul
Prueitt
703-981-2676
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:39 AM
Subject: RE: Roadmap for semantic technology
Paul,
I've checked in with a couple of the folks in our research group
and the consensus is that we are not currently pushing hard in this area. As
you know these things change from month to month as products and markets evolve
so I would like to keep in touch.
Thank you,
-TR
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 8:01 PM
To:
Cc:
Subject: RE: Roadmap for
semantic technology
I expect that everyone in the Industry is in a similar position, trying to follow and make sense of something that is not designed to ultimately make the advances in functionality that some of us have talked about for some years.
A sample of the 20 – 40 messages per day, messages sent into any of the W3C standards e-forums, gives one a quick impression of hopeful seekers of functionality. Most are disappointed, and those that are not get involved with pretending to do something useful to the end user.
We are dealing with experts whose advice is never completely clear and almost always over optimistic.
The current technology is vague and full of new promises, and we are somehow we all are willing to forget the failures of the past.
The core cause of these failures is the market and those who feel that the market should govern the development of semantic technology. The market focuses on the short term and will not spend the capital required to gain a full understanding of the long term. Why? Well the understanding of the long term has to be communicated to many people before a market will be developed that knows what might be better, in terms of utility. But any communication of the long-term understanding gained from capital investment does not make sense, since the communication itself gives the hard earned understanding away.
Dr Paul Prueitt
Taos New Mexico