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DIARY: January 13, 2000 08:31 AM Thursday; Rod Welch

Called Douglas Hofstadter on alphabet technology.

1...Summary/Objective


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SUBJECTS
Computer Aided Management
Brain Memory Learning
Complex Communication Span of Attention, Mistakes, Needs SDS
Complexity Requires Integrate Objectives, History, Resources, Need SD
Poetry, Balance, Synthesize, Integrate
Pattern Recognition Intelligence Analysis
Fluid Concepts, Creative Analogies, Hofstadter
Reasoning, Numbers, Paradigms
Organization of Information
Alphabet Most Powerful Technology, Improved by SDS
Brain Memory Learning
Conntected Text = Context, Meaning, Understanding Intelligence
Connections Cause Effect, Meaning

1015 -    ..
1016 - Summary/Objective
1017 -
101701 - Follow up ref SDS 24 0000, ref SDS 15 000000.
101702 -
101703 - Phone:  (812) 855-6965
101704 - Internet:  dughof@cogsci.indiana.edu
101705 -
101706 - Talked to Helga, the admin assistant.
101707 - ..
101708 - Doug is working at Stanford this semester.
101709 -
101710 - His number is...
101711 -
101712 -                         650 234 9710
101713 -
101714 - His email is...
101715 -
101716 -                   dughof@leland.stanford.edu
101717 -
101718 - Helga said Doug has about 700 email he is behind on answering.
101719 -
101720 - She suggests forwarding my letter, ref DIP 1 0001, sent yesterday,
101721 - ref SDS 24 3478, to Doug's email address at stanford.
101722 -
101723 - Helga feels...
101724 -
101725 -
101726 -                        Donald Norman
101727 -
101728 -
101729 - ...is a well known professor who has a web page and might be
101730 - interested in my work.
101731 -
101732 - Talked to John Raling who is a graduate student.
101733 -
101734 - John explained there are 3 or 4 people in the Indiana University
101735 - Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, they all have projects
101736 - on getting technology to perceive individual letters, rather than on
101737 - assembling letters into coherent speech.
101738 -
101739 - He is unaware of anyone working on enhancing the utility of the
101740 - alphabet.
101741 -
101742 - John suggesting contacting...
101743 -
101744 -
101745 -                   www.imaginative-engines.com
101746 -
101747 -
101748 - ...this person has developed an AI application for a Creativity
101749 - Machine.
101750 -
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1020 - 1009 called Doug at Stanford         650 234 9710
1021 -
102101 - Explained my letter, ref DIP 1 0001, on his book and that I have
102102 - developed technology using the alphabet for an intelligence process...
102103 -
102104 - Doug interrupted and explained he is too busy to take phone calls
102105 - from strangers.
102106 -
102107 - I thanked him and apologized for interrupting his work.
102108 -
102109 - Resubmitted ref DIP 1 0001 to Doug's address at Stanford. ref SDS 0
102110 - 1081
102111 -
102112 -     [000329 Doug Hofstadter conducting symposium at Stanford on
102113 -     computers taking over the planet. ref SDS 25 0001
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