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DIARY: August 31, 2000 05:16 PM Thursday; Rod Welch

Ray Levitt at Stanford called on SDS, course for Com Metrics.

1...Summary/Objective

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1...Ray requested suggestions to improve the curiculum for his course...

CONTACTS 
0201 - Bootstrap Institute                  510 713 3550
020101 - Mr. Douglas C. Engelbart, Ph.D.
020102 - doug@bootstrap.org
0202 - Civil Engineering Department         650 723 2300
020201 - Mr. Ray Levitt, Ph.D.; Professor =415 723 2677
020202 - rel@cive.stanford.edu
020203 - Construction Engineering & Management Program

SUBJECTS
Stanford Project Management
Continual Learning
Managing Organizations by Projects (MOBP)
Educational Institutions
VDT, Metrics for Communication
Communication Biggest Risk of Mistakes
Entropy in Communications/Information
Alliances on Development

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1211 - Summary/Objective
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121201 - Follow up ref SDS 61 0000, ref SDS 54 0000.
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121203 - Discussed Ray's letter, ref DRP 4 0001, received on 000223,
121204 - ref SDS 54 0192, responding to my letter, ref DIP 7 0001, sent 000222.
121205 - ref SDS 53 1428
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121207 - He is very busy, and so does not have a lot of time to focus on new
121208 - initiatives.
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121210 - We reviewed research the past 6 months indicating SDS supports
121211 - Knowledge Management, for example SIR's interest in creating a program
121212 - like SDS reported on 000824. ref SDS 59 PU5N, and on 000829,
121213 - ref SDS 60 1056.
121214 - ..
121215 - Additionally, on 000829 discussed with SRI need to develop a
121216 - course curiculum for Communication Metrics, ref SDS 60 R62W, per the
121217 - record on 000301, contacting Ray and Doug Engelbart. ref SDS 56 0001
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121219 - Ray indicated he attended several of Doug's lectures on the
121220 - Colloquium following my letter.
121221 -
121222 - Ray advised that Dell Computers has reported that Ray's VDT program
121223 - supports KM.
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121225 - Ray requested suggestions to improve the curiculum for his course...
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121228 -                http://apm.stanfor.edu
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121231 - ...may address the objective in some respects.
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121234 - We considered briefly the goal to enhance alphabet technology.  Ray
121235 - was not familiar with the theory of an "alphabetic mind" reported on
121236 - 991108. ref SDS 26 5628
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121238 - He also suggested contacting...
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121240 -                     Larry Leifer
121241 -                     Department Chair
121242 -                     Stanford Learning Laboratory
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121244 -
121245 -                     Rhenata Fruchter
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121247 - ...who is listed on the Stanford faculty.
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121249 - We considered briefly that project management has a number of
121250 - elements that if more widely used, even by project managers, would
121251 - improve management.
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