Eric Armstrong
eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com



Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:17:29 -0700

From:   Eric Armstrong
eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com
Reply-To: unrev-II@egroups.com

To:     unrev-II@egroups.com

Subject:   Towards an Atomic Data Structure


Rod Welch wrote on April 23, 2000

It would be helpful to see a mock up and/or scenario of how this capability would be used to perform daily work, like write some code, conduct a meeting, make a phone call, read a book, design a computer chip, fix the car, go to the dentist, the normal activity people use "intelligence" to support in generating knowledge about the world that might be useful in a repository.

That's the purpose of the use cases, our top priority at the moment.

Rod Welch wrote on April 23, 2000

There has been consideration for the DKR team to create a tool to help software engineering. The things you describe today seem like they might be useful for that task, but also help other tasks, as well. Does this suggest that augmenting intelligence, which you mention elsewhere, provides an underlying capability that can help everyone do almost anything a little better?

Yes. We're focusing on improving "natural language interactions", at least those taking place in context of a deliberation. As such, the end result is liable to be useful for a wide variety of pursuits. The immediate goal, though, is to make *SURE* it is a totally awesome, undeniable useful tool for software engineering -- so much so that it becomes impossible to see how you could work without it...

Sincerely,



Eric Armstrong
eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com