ORB Visualization
Return to Prueitt’s
communication
3/17/2004
5:52 PM
Communication to:
Daniel Weitzner,
Director,
World Wide Web Consortium's Technology and Society
Daniel
I am also talking with Eric Miller, whom I have talked to a few times over the years about the W3 and about intellectual issues.
There is a unique opportunity to increase funding for advanced systems.
There is a need to get the W3 organization to remove of the mythology from the discussion, specifically the language that ascribes properties to computers that computer do not now have. Perhaps this adjustment can be made.
We are looking at a two year funding cycle but we also understand that a great deal of money is not spent in the current R&D accounts because there are not good solutions being proposed.
The Congressional investigation that we have gotten started now, can lead to some positive benefits. God knows that the nation and the world need a real breakthrough in semantic technology. But we have to get the science right.
We hope to be able to post Eric's comments to me as an extension of the "beadgame". (Named after Herman Hesse's book.) The effort will be to evolve this into a very positive representation of the social discourse. I have asked also Tim Berners Lee to make a comment on the dialog at
Technological Innovation as an
Evolutionary Process
and in particular Professor Hendler’s comments.
We are also doing a conceptual indexing study on the development of this conversation.
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/InOrb/six.htm
using
http://www.bcngroup.org/area2/KSF/Notation/notation.htm
We want deeply to get the intellectual issues posed properly, and hope that everyone understands that this can be an exercise in representing the concepts of a distributed community. Editing previous posts is entirely within the rules.
We will be bringing in L. Zadeh, S. Grossberg, K. Pribram, J. Holland, S. Kaufman, S. Hameroff, P. Kugler, R. Shaw and others in order to bring the balance to the discussion.