THE WELCH COMPANY
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June 19, 2001

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Mr. John Deneen
jjdeneen@ricochet.net
Deneen Consulting

Subject:   Millennium Project and Cognitive Radio

Dear John,

Has there been any follow up on the letter sent June 14, 2001 responding to your request on April 13, 2001 for use cases explaining how Communication Metrics can support the Millennium Project with the SDS program? This could be a big help to the UN's goal for advancing education for the reasons in the record on June 14, 2001. The same capability that lifts the capacity to think, remember and communicate for education, can lift civilization, as explained in POIMS. These are important issues at the UN.

Yesterday, I sent a letter to a friend at Intel asking if the Cognitive Radio idea you are developing could be applied to improve work people are doing with a Palm Pilot? Additionally, MIT has not responded to a request on June 14, 2001 for progress implementing goals to develop technology that improves collaboration. This may indicate everyone is on summer break. Hopefully, MIT's work product will show what they have in mind.

If voice recognition could be combined with a Cognitive Radio, this would facilitate creating and using organizational memory, and so help comprise an enabling technology proposed by a friend at IBM on November 11, 1999. In this scenario, SDS might contribute by adding "intelligence" to the record captured by a Cognitive Radio. Experimentation would be needed to develop effective deployment, since much of actual dialog is repetitious and error prone (momentary dynamics of gestures and visual context fill in missing words and phrases). However, MIT's collaboration capability could make the whole package a winner.

Is there some place where speech recognition can be tested?

On June 14, 2001 a letter was forwarded on work being done by the Science and Technology (S&T) Collabrium for "....Digital and Multimedia Communications using Terrestial and Satellite Radio Links." Does this support the Cognitive Radio initiative?

On June 13, 2001 you proposed a conference call with visionaries in the Cognitive Radio initiative to discuss integration of technologies. Is this being set up? Who will be participating? What is the agenda?

We have received further inquiries about Com Metrics from DCMA, which supports your confidence that there is demand for better management. Possibly something will develop; things are just exploratory at this stage. In any case, improving productivity, earnings and stock prices by saving time and money seem to have appeal for some customers. That was the formula proposed to the Millennium Project, so I am wondering about progress on their review, per above.

Sincerely,

THE WELCH COMPANY



Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net


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