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Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process

 

On the response from the academic community

 

 

 

Short “Systems AS-IS” Paper

Short “Finding the Balance” Paper

 

 

 

Documents gathered or developed by BCNGroup founders have identified a well-defined behavior related to IT consultant working on federal projects.  The behavior is similar to that seen in clinical setting when there is spousal abuse.  The behavior is an avoidance behavior that is seen in interactions between government clients (not really wishing to allow innovation to occur) and computer programmers (who know that their job depends on submission).

 

Quote from internal report: Behavioral Evidence of a Pattern of Abuse of Power

 

A specific set of conversation behaviors by the two programmers, xz and zy, and by the IT project manager, xy, evidence the consequences of this pattern of abuse.  The conversation behaviors include habitually deferring any question that would expose the limitations of the software, the selected document management system, data model.  The deferring behavior took two forms,

(1)    actually deferring all, or most, simple questions about the data model for a later date (We conjecture that this was under specific advise from the (government ageny) management),

(2)    actually answering a different question that the one asked and acting as if this was the correct answer.  One can observe that this conversation behavior is endemic and not natural. 

We suggest to the IG (Inspector General) that the deception intended and achieved is documented and can be demonstrated by interviewing the computer programmers who are on the team.  November 14th, 2003 e-mail from the project manager to a member of the university describes this behavior, as does hand written conversational notes between the manager and a member of the university made during the core members team meeting on November 6th, 2003. 

 

The study of responses to long-term abuse is important in the context of understanding funding requirements for the knowledge sciences.  The knowledge sciences is inhibited because it is unknown to many and because there are individuals who’s ideological orientation is adverse towards any type of change, particularly change that involves a re-examination of first principles.

 

Private conversation within the IT community often will expose plans and behaviors directed at keeping a level of confusion about software and exploiting this confusion so that the job is never quite done.  These private conversations are protected by denial, even in formal setting or in a setting where testimony is made under oath.  The reasons for this behavior and its denial are complex, but should be recognized as one cause of the over-expenditure by the federal government on IT services. 

 

Evidence can easily be developed regarding the planning and the avoidance behaviors.  

 

However, the fundamental theorem on reduction ( + ) suggests that the job of creating software eventually becomes completed.  An unpublished theorem by Dr Harold Szu provides a second framework for conjecturing that computer science will eventually be completed.  Prueitt gives a visual representation of the theorem.  An analog to settling land in the land rush on Oklahoma in the 1889 is useful.  At one point to ownership is distributes.  However, in the case of software, the ownership has a duration and if the patent is about something purely mathematical in natural, abstract in nature, then the patent may be set aside when challenged in court. 

 

The theorems on reduction lead to a conjecture that there is a finite characterization of computer science.  The two implications are

 

1)       that at core there is a specific set of categories of computer processes

2)       in each of these categories of computer processes there is an optimal way of achieving the function that this category achieves

 

The failure of IT is driven by an avoidance of this conjecture. 

 

Disclaimer: What the theorems on reduction do not imply is anything that is analog in nature.  In the natural situation, there is structural holonomy to finite characterizations but the category theory in this regards remains open.  So optical computing and quantum computing will present new types of characterizations beyond what will be established about Turing machines. 

 

The nature of human thought is deemed, by AI/SW point of view, reducible to logic.  Our position is that human thought is a physical phenomenon and logic is not.  This bit of science separates the BCNGroup concept of Anticipatory Web of Information from the Semantic Web, discussed by Tim Berners Lee. 

 

In the BCNGroup alternative to AI/SW we positively address the issue of long-term abuse from one community onto another community, and (perhaps more importantly) an alternative to the AI/Semantic Web vision for the future.  Once the light of day is shone on this abuse issue, then our society will be able to move on to a more rational expenditure of funds on communication systems. 

 

In this alternative, the growth of computer science funding levels off and then will be sharply reduced as the task of creating a functional understanding of what a computer can do and not do is codified in practice. 

 

The first step is a requested $60,000,000 to create a Knowledge Science K-12 curriculum. 

 

This alternative, to the AI/SW vision for the future, conjectures that the social/economic energy now spent in confusion, over what a computer can do, will be spent in the proper application of human-centric information production (HIP) on critical social problems such as those creating asymmetric threats and poverty and environmental degradation. 

 

The immediate value proposition is not a business proposition, but a National Security one.