CONTACTS 
0201 - Deneen Consulting                    925 229 1858
020101 - Mr. John Deneen
020102 - jjdeneen@ricochet.net
0202 - Pacific Consultants LLC              650 691 6780
020201 - Mr. John Murray, Ph.D.; Director of Software Systems =650 404 2343
020202 - jxm@pacificconsultants.com
020203 - Software Engineering Division
0204 - Intel Corporation                    408 765 8080
020401 - Mr. Morris E. Jones; Business Unit Manager =408 545 9521
020402 - morris.jones@intel.com
020403 - Cable Network Operation
0205 - Conover Consulting                   503 NNN XXXX
020501 - Mr. Matt Conover
020502 - mattc@silcon.com

SUBJECTS
Pacific Consultants on 010228 1100 in Mountain View for Lunch
Pacific Consultants Cannot Attend Meeting on 010228
Meeting John Deneen, SRI, Lee Iverson, IBM, Jim Spohrer, Pacific Con
Meeting 010228 Prepare Pacific Consultants John Murray Requests Agend
Meeting Planned 010228 in Mountain View
Meeting 010228 Prepare John Murray Requests Agenda
Pacific Consultants SDS Finance Incorporate into Existing Projects
Pacific Consultants on 010228 1100 in Mountain View for Lunch
Customer Requests for Information

2411 -    ..
2412 - Summary/Objective
2413 -
241301 - Follow up ref SDS 14 0000, ref SDS 12 0000.
241302 -
241303 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to John Murray linked to this record
241304 - providing agenda ideas requested by John's letter received yesterday,
241305 - ref DRP 8 0001, confirming our meeting on 010222. ref SDS 14 0001
241306 -
241307 - Sent copy to John Deneen, Matt Conover and Jack Park.
241308 -
241309 - Also, sent a copy to Pat Lincoln at SRI, so he is aware that our prior
241310 - discussions have been reported to Pacific Consultants in this record.
241311 -
241325 -
241326 - Called John and let him know there is an agenda in the mail.
241327 -
241328 -      ..
241329 -     Agenda
241330 -
241331 -     Follow up ref SDS 14 QA7M.
241332 -
241333 -         This meeting is to explore opportunities; if this shows
241334 -         progress, follow up with more participants can be held on
241335 -         Thursday, or as soon as possible, under point 6. ref SDS 0
241336 -         KX9O
241337 -
241338 -         Suggest John and colleagues review POIMS, ref OF 2 0001, and
241339 -         "use cases" set out in the record on 010222 submitted to John
241340 -         on that date. ref SDS 9 614H
241341 -
241342 -         Background
241343 -
241344 -             Porting SDS to the Internet may relate to Pacific
241345 -             Consultant's goals -- see record on 971105. ref SDS 2 1459
241346 -
241347 -         If John has time for reviewing this record prior to meeting
241348 -         tomorrow, then we can start off with point 3. ref SDS 0 ET5O
241349 -  ..
241350 -
241351 -     1.  SDS Breakthrough Technology with Universal Application
241352 -
241353 -         ....that makes a fundamental advance on alphabet technology by
241354 -         applying aspects of spreadsheet structure to traditional
241355 -         wordprocessing.  Combining these separate methods, provides a
241356 -         unique and powerful new kind of application which can surpass
241357 -         wordprocessing and email as the most useful tools of personal
241358 -         computers.
241359 -
241360 -            On 000725 Pat Lincoln, Director of Computer Science at SRI
241361 -            noted SDS is a strong KM application. ref SDS 5 0050  On
241362 -            001017 Pat affirmed this understanding. ref SDS 6 VY4J
241363 -            More recently on 010122 Pat supported SDS during a meeting
241364 -            with Curt Carlson, CEO of SRI.
241365 -
241366 -            On 001027 Doug Engelbart supported SDS. ref SDS 7 XV6F
241367 -
241368 -         SDS strengthens literacy by adding "context" to traditional
241369 -         wordprocessing.  Since literacy is the core of civilization,
241370 -         reported on 991108, ref SDS 3 5628, improving this core
241371 -         capability provides a fundamental advance for all knowledge
241372 -         work, as explained in POIMS, and in the NWO which are
241373 -         on.......
241374 -
241375 -
241376 -                   http://www.welchco.com
241377 -
241378 -
241379 -         ....under publications.
241380 -
241381 -
241382 -                   http://www.welchco.com/00601.HTM
241383 -
241384 -
241385 -
241386 -     2.  Use Cases
241387 -
241388 -         Since literacy is a universal power, SDS improves the
241389 -         following major fields of use....
241390 -
241391 -
241392 -             1.  Engineering.................... ref SDS 8 R67G
241393 -             2.  Health......................... ref SDS 8 8S9N
241394 -             3.  Education...................... ref SDS 8 UO4N
241395 -             4.  Government..................... ref SDS 8 HO6K
241396 -
241397 -  ..
241398 -     3.  Application to Pacific Consultants Initiatives
241399 -
241400 -         Pacific Consultants may present an overview of its goals and
241401 -         requirements in order to assess how SDS might fit.
241402 -
241403 -         For example,
241404 -
241405 -             1.  How does Pacific Consultants anticipate using SDS for
241406 -                 the Land Warrior contract?
241407 -
241408 -             2.  Can SDS strengthen Pacific Consultants engineering
241409 -                 management practices?
241410 -
241411 -
241412 -     4.  OHS Project, SRI and IBM Initiative
241413 -
241414 -         John Deneen and John Murray can discuss prospects for SDS and
241415 -         Pacific Consultants' capabilities to support an OHS-type
241416 -         capability under consideration at SRI, and as further set out
241417 -         in Jack Park's letter on 010223. ref SDS 10 0001
241418 -
241419 -
241420 -     5.  Opportunities
241421 -
241422 -         a.  SDS may fill a need for Pacific Consultants to perform
241423 -             current government contracts, e.g., land warrior; and,or
241424 -             can be presented by Pacific Consultant's to expand sales
241425 -             and customer base to provide an "intelligence" capability.
241426 -             Some ideas presented so far to introduce SDS where there
241427 -             is strong demand for a high quality of management is for
241428 -             use in....
241429 -
241430 -                               control rooms, and
241431 -
241432 -                               command centers
241433 -
241434 -         b.  Pacific Consultants could join financially, and as an
241435 -             active partner to develop SDS for replacing wordprocessing
241436 -             and email, and as a core of enterprise management, along
241437 -             the lines Jack Park describes in his letter on 010223.
241438 -             ref SDS 10 RG6M
241439 -
241440 -  ..
241441 -     6.  Follow up the next day on Thursday....
241442 -
241443 -         If folks feel these or other opportunities should be pursued,
241444 -         then propose follow up meeting to consider scope of technical
241445 -         issues with Morris Jones on Thursday, or as soon as everyone
241446 -         can visit, in order to better assess the level of effort that
241447 -         may be required in relation to available resources, time
241448 -         constraints and markets.
241449 -
241450 -         Jack Park is out of town, but he will be kept apprised of
241451 -         progress through SDS, so he can contribute to guide business
241452 -         development.
241453 -
241454 -         Morris has staff meetings all day on Wednesday, but could be
241455 -         available on Thursday to discuss details on molding SDS to fit
241456 -         Land Warrior requirements, and broader applications.
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2417 - 1500
2418 -
241801 - John Deneen and Matt Conover visited.
241802 -
241803 - Land Warrior is comprised of inexpensive electronic devices that
241804 - assist a field operator, e.g., soldier, to gather information
241805 - automatically using sensors, and to make express reports.
241806 -
241807 - John showed pictures of a soldier outfitted with Land Warrior
241808 - equipment.
241809 -
241810 - SDS is pictured as providing support in a command center for
241811 - analysing information from this system.
241812 -
241813 - Information might be generated by speech recognition.
241814 -
241815 - Matt Conover explained prospect of capturing discussion during
241816 - meetings and other daily activity, e.g. calls, using speech
241817 - recognition technology.
241818 - ..
241819 - John explained wireless technology that facilitates this
241820 - process.
241821 -
241822 - He mentioned that Neil Scott has a strong interest in promoting this
241823 - class of technology because it helps disabled people participate more
241824 - broadly in community life.
241825 -
241826 -      Neil attended a meeting at SRI on 000406, ref SDS 4 UC8M, and
241827 -      described technology to aid the handicapped. ref SDS 4 1980
241828 -
241829 - John seemed to indicate that Neil has developed speech recognition,
241830 - and or conversion technology.  Neil prefered DOS tools, until
241831 - recently, when more newer versions of Windows in combination with
241832 - faster processors have enabled Windows applications to work fast
241833 - enough to be effective for speech recognition.
241834 -
241835 -      [On 010228 John explained Neil's work in a meeting at Pacific
241836 -      Consultants with John Murray. ref SDS 15 4G9N
241837 -
241838 - Neil's work is one example of several technologies John feels can be
241839 - developed commercially, beginning with SDS as a catalyst.
241840 - ..
241841 - John feels that John Murray, and his boss, the CEO of Pacific
241842 - Consultants, have indicated they are hopeful SDS can contribute
241843 - meaningfully to accomplish their scope of work with DARPA for Land
241844 - Warrior.
241845 -
241846 -    [On 010228 John Murray indated Pacific Consultants is not looking
241847 -    at SDS to support their work on Land Warriar. ref SDS 15 ET5O
241848 -
241849 - We considered the steps required to test this theory.
241850 -
241851 -    1.  Pacific Consultants needs experience using SDS.
241852 -
241853 -    2.  This requires a contract to pilot test the capability under
241854 -        various conditions.
241855 -
241856 -    3.  We need to hear from Pacific Cosultants how they envision a
241857 -        command center using SDS.
241858 -
241859 -
241860 - Discussed the application might occur in two ways.
241861 -
241862 -    1.  Information will be regularly flowing to the Command Center,
241863 -        and be captured in various ways.
241864 -
241865 -        Stream of conscious input could be captured by front line
241866 -        control operatives, similar to the record on 970106 showing the
241867 -        time of events. ref SDS 1 9769
241868 -
241869 -        This work is full-time, so there is no time for analysis.
241870 -
241871 -    2.  Second group of folks need to be working on analysis and
241872 -        organization of the record, identifying action items that are
241873 -        rolled into daily operations.
241874 -
241875 -
241876 - Deliverable....
241877 -
241878 -    1.  SDS
241879 -
241880 -    2.  Implementation planning procedures
241881 -
241882 -        a.  Hardware software network and backup environment.
241883 -
241884 -        b.  Staffing, skills, organization of human application
241885 -            system to convert information into useful intelligence.
241886 -
241887 -    3.  Training
241888 -
241889 -
241890 - Developing implementation and training will require research, trial
241891 - and experiementation to figure the right mix of skills and structure
241892 - to handle an expanding universe of information, Land Warrior intends
241893 - to generate.
241894 -
241895 - Cost of this development could be $M, but once figured out the cost to
241896 - implement should be negligble, because it will become absorbed in
241897 - personnel and other operational costs
241898 -
241899 - Matt Conover said he does not want to be represented as part of a team
241900 - or entity that would be assembled to contract with Pacific Consultants
241901 - to do an SDS project.  He is seeking a job that will pay a weekly
241902 - salary.
241903 -
241904 - Matt has not had time to review POIMS.
241905 -
241906 - John Deneen recommended reviewing POIMS to understand how SDS
241907 - strengthens daily knowledge work.
241908 -
241909 -    [On 010228 Matt has read POIMS. ref SDS 15 RQ5K
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