Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:58:08 -0600 (MDT)
Mr. Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net
The Welch Company
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111 2496
Subject:
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Cliff Joslyn Needs Input on Presentation to SRI
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Rod,
[Responding to
your letter
this morning stating in part...
I sent a letter on 000713 with a link to
preliminary ideas
for your
presentation at SRI...
Yes, I saw that, thank you.
To start the ball rolling here, let me reiterate something I mentioned to you
in a recent phone conversation, which is that I'm probably not the best person
to address issues like "Overview of KM worldwide". I struggle on a daily basis
to keep up on a few things and push the work ahead which I think is most
important in my LANL context, and I regret that keeping up with much of the
current state of the art in projects is something I lag behind in. Indeed, in
forums like this I'm as anxious as you to hear from folks what's really
working.
Instead, let me suggest the following kinds of topics I could address. I need
some guidance right away to narrow it down.
- A vision of Distributed Knowledge Systems:
- The role of semiotic concepts: sign systems, data and information,
freedom and constraint, the role of interpretation and interpreters
- Collective human (agent)-computer interaction
- Corpus structure and necessary technologies: network theory,
adaptive systems, machine learning, natural language processing,
anthropology
- Current research efforts at LANL:
- For managing scientific databases: digital libraries,
bioinformatics, historical databases about complex technical
systems.
- Technologies used: adaptive systems, complex systems, uncertainty
management, etc.
- The Principia Cybernetica Project
- Early system for distributed, collaborative development of
cybernetic philosophy
- Self-application of cybernetic principles to their own development
- Early distributed hypertext, adaptive hypertext, and web development
concepts
- Towards a robust hyper-environment for KM environments: here I'm at
least as much asking questions as giving my own views
- Strong graph theoretical foundations, possibly linking to category
theory
- Labeled graphs: typed links
- Strong semantic theory
Sincerely,
Cliff Joslyn
joslyn@lanl.gov
Computer Research Group (CIC-3)
Member of the Technical Staff (Cybernetician at Large)
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~joslyn
(505) 667-9096
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