Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Resilience Project White Paper
(Response to note from The
Speaker’s Office [376] )
(Response ŕ to [376] )
Starting the Discussion with the National Science Foundation
About the proposed Resilience Project
From the
correspondence: from
Stuart
Robbins
Executive
Consultant
Author,
"The System is a Mirror"
http://www.systemisamirror.com
and
Founder and
Executive Director
The CIO
Collective
298 Grand
Avenue, Suite 100
Oakland, CA
94610
What is the problem
you are working to address?
Answer: We are working to correct
foundational errors in computer science, in particular those leading to
the central notions of the academic field of artificial intelligence
and the related notion that "all processes are business
processes".
John: This is of high interest on two levels. First,
as a result of our mentoring sessions with The Federal CIO Council in Washington,
many of us came away with distinct impressions about the inability of even the
most talented and well-intentioned systems professionals to have a positive
impact upon a bureaucracy that is structured to retain power/control, and
resist change. The second, as discussed in my book on Grid Computing, is
that the foundational errors noted above are of the most serious type - Fundamental
Attribution Errors. These
are the most difficult to identify and correct, and involve not only
systems but cultural risks that expand over time. Thanks for pointing me
in this direction.
Stuart
Note sent January 29th ŕ [382]
January 30th reply from NSF ŕ [383]