Preliminary work on Upper Fixed
Orb Taxonomy
3/5/2004
8:02 AM
Dr. William Woods
Principal Scientist
Distinguished Engineer
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Bill,
I am pleased that you might join a
discussion that has been going on since 1992, regarding the nature of
innovation and adoption of innovation in support of an evolving social
system. Many of those who have
been part of the discussions are not comfortable with Internet
communications. Of example,
neuroscientist Karl Pribram has been one of my mentors and has organized a
massive review of new research in a way that excludes his use of the
Internet. Given the schedules of
individuals of this stature, the avoidance of the Internet and television seems
reasonable. In many cases the
individuals are deeply occupied in work that is extremely absorbing, and thus
separated from the buzz and confusion of the Internet world.
There are many challenges facing
the planning we are doing. Our
next step is a face to face National conference which will occur quickly as
soon as funds are obtained.
I have thought a lot about the
presentation you made in 96-97 at Univ of Maryland (I was senior scientist at a
intelligence technology company at the time) on the technology you invented for
SUN in automated taxonomy development.
My interest at the time was in (what I would call starting in 2002) formative and differential
ontology:
The mathematical details on
foundational notions at: [*] [^] [#] [+] and [%]
My background is in pure mathematics, but with published work in theoretical immunology and neural networks.
In 91-94 I was Director of the
Neural Network Research Facility at Georgetown University, and since then I
have been working on technology/cultural issues in the context of support for
human knowledge creation and sharing.
I have been always a bit away from
the mainstream, and so have books unpublished and inventions un-patented, but
published. As many of the other
"knowledge scientists" we seem to have lost contact with how the world
today works, while we focus on things that excite us regarding the
possibilities for cultural transformation due to a more brilliant access to
knowledge about the natural world.
Our shared problem has become the inhibition of innovation by patent and
intellectual property aggregation that has occurred to control competition and government procurement practices.
The current work we are doing is on
organizing a planning process for a national project to establish the knowledge
sciences as an academic discipline, and thus to open the way to a cultural
revolution moving society into a many to many knowledge sharing system based on
the notion of a Safe Net
(someplace where transactions are open and free - but provably secure and
robust.)
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/safeNet/twentytwo.htm
This Safe Net concept is being
considered in discussions with Congressional staff as a means to renew American
agrarian social/economic organization in rural America:
http://www.bcngroup.org/AIC/eight.htm
My own work on a "knowledge
technology" is strongly influenced by cognitive neuroscience and quantum
neuroscience, and my knowledge of Soviet work on cybernetics:
http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/pprueitt/book.htm
A technology has been developed
that relies more on human in the loop cognitive acuity and selective attention
http://www.bcngroup.org/area2/KSF/Notation/notation.htm
Enhancing this technology with the
best work on taxonomy generation from text is what has been proposed, by myself
to the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel:
http://www.bcngroup.org/area2/knowledgeSharingFoundation.htm
investment materials in
Thank you for looking at these
thoughts.
I look forward to speaking with
you. I hope that you would help us
in both getting the taxonomy generation engine correct, as well as in helping
us develop the thematic constructions for a BCNGroup Communities Glass Bead
Game
Paul Prueitt