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SUBJECTS
SDS Can Be Greatly Improved, 001116 Rod
SDS Considered by DCMA
DCMA Consider SDS Jack Can Contribute to Project
Open Source People Empowered to Do What They Feel Like Doing Progress
Open Source Develop with Conventional Management then Release to Open
Empowerment Do Something Even If Wrong Empowerment Slippery Slope to
Open Source Insulates Usefulness from Bumbling But Not Effective for

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2709 -    ..
2710 - Summary/Objective
2711 -
271101 - Follow up ref SDS B3 BP3K, ref SDS 95 A13H.
271102 -
271103 - Correspondence today encourages support for assisting DCMA accomplish
271104 - goals for improving literacy by adopting SDS for Communication
271105 - Metrics.  Jack asked for another explanation to help people understand
271106 - organic subject structure. ref SDS 0 S63L  Howard Liu submitted an
271107 - article explaining technology experts recognize the power of alphabet
271108 - technology for transforming civilization. ref SDS 0 N668  This may
271109 - assist DCMA in saving time and money for taxpayers by reducing the
271110 - cost of DOD procurement.
271111 -
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2713 -
2714 - Progress
2715 -
271501 - DCMA Possible Assignment; Need Next Generation of SDS in 5 Years
271502 -
271503 - Follow up ref SDS B3 BP3K, ref SDS 95 A13H.
271504 -
271505 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to Jack linked to the record of communication
271506 - with Stuart at DCMA earlier today, ref DRP 5 0001, which includes a
271507 - letter from Stuart, a letter to him, plus some direct discussion by
271508 - telephone. ref SDS B7 0001
271510 -  ..
271511 - Jack is possible contributor on project with DCMA, though at this
271512 - stage there is only 10% chance of getting an assignment, for the
271513 - reasons in the record on 010619. ref SDS B5 GZ5F
271515 -  ..
271516 - KM is a research project to discover how to deploy KM that brings the
271517 - light of knowledge, but requires secrecy. ref DIT 1 RP6L
271519 -  ..
271520 - Urgency of creating next generation KM capability to avoid problem of
271521 - evolution cited by Doug Engelbart on 010522, ref SDS A5 WP5O, will
271522 - require about a 5 years, if we get started working on right tasks
271523 - today. ref DIT 1 GQ7G  This aligns with Stuart's suggestion to DCMA HQ
271524 - that SDS is a near term 5 year solution. ref SDS B7 6F5K
271526 -  ..
271527 - We only have about 5 years before bumbling to improve productivity by
271528 - Microsoft, reported on 010510, impairs SDS. ref SDS A3 YG5K
271530 -  ..
271531 - Doug hopes open source insulates usefulness from bumbling. ref DIT 1
271532 - GQ7G
271534 -  ..
271535 - Open source entails people doing what they feel like doing, rather on
271536 - what needs to be done, per Grant Bowman on 001012, ref SDS 81 PT5M,
271537 - because what is needed is counterintuitive, per POIMS, ref OF 3 2049,
271538 - which eliminates incentive to perform action items necessary to make
271539 - progress. ref DIT 1 S47O Thus, open source is less effective for
271540 - starting a revolution, but it could help maintain innovative
271541 - capability, once put in place, as proposed on 000503. ref SDS 65 6903
271543 -  ..
271544 - Our challenge is to light the fire, build momentum, provide
271545 - visibility, and along the way discover how to help people transition
271546 - from IT to a culture of knowledge.  It is a big job that requires a
271547 - lot of help.
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SUBJECTS
AI Fails Intelligence Knowledge Too Complex
AI Engineers Design Personal Biases into Tools that Hamper Users
AI Cyc Lenat Programming Common Sense Knowledge to Make Computer Thin
Cyc Project Creating Common Sense AI Program But Common Sense Only La
Lenat, Douglas B, PhD, President, Founder Cycorp
AI Common Sense Cyc Program to be Released to Public
Alphabet Technology Makes People Superhuman, Article in Los Angles Ti

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401001 -  ..
401002 - Cyc Project Developing AI Based on Common Sense Information
401003 -
401004 - Follow up ref SDS 99 0001.
401005 -
401006 - Howard Liu submitted an article today to OHS/DKR team that provided a
401007 - link to an article explaining Lenat's work on Cyc, with the title...
401009 -                    ..
401010 -                   Birth of a Thinking Machine
401011 -
401012 -
401013 - ...published in the LA Times. ref OF 1 0001
401014 -
401015 -      http://www.latimes.com/news/front/20010621/t000051293.html
401017 -    ..
401018 -   [On 020920 this source was no longer active.  Other sources
401019 -   include...
401020 -
401021 -      http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/articles/thinking_la_times_6_21_01.html
401023 -  ..
401024 - The article relates pending release of a "practical" application from
401025 - an AI research effort that began in the mid-80s. ref OF 1 WQ5O  This
401026 - follows up the record on 010425 explaining that DARPA has funded Cyc
401027 - for 20 years, and now wants the project to compete in the market
401028 - place. ref SDS 99 GJ6J
401030 -  ..
401031 - It is a long article, that says in the beginning.....
401032 -
401033 -       For 17 years... engineers... teaching Cyc much of what a human
401034 -       being knows.  The idea, as articulated by the project's creator,
401035 -       computer scientist Douglas B. Lenat, has been to create the most
401036 -       sophisticated artificial intelligence system ever devised--the
401037 -       closest a computer has come to replicating the human brain's
401038 -       reasoning, learning ability and perhaps even its consciousness.
401039 -       ref OF 1 LR6K
401041 -  ..
401042 - "Cyc" comes from encyclopedia. ref OF 1 LR6K
401043 -
401044 -    Lenat's efforts reflect Jeremy's Campbell's book reviewed on 900303
401045 -    that explains human intelligence works by experience. ref SDS 4
401046 -    3002  Campbell's book may have been influenced by Cyc.
401047 -
401048 -    Weakness of Cyc is that "knowledge" comes from experience that
401049 -    connects chronologies of cause and effect over time, and occurs
401050 -    along a continuum of organic subject structures, which origniate
401051 -    at the molecular level necessary to sustain human life. see POIMS.
401052 -    ref OF 3 0367 and work on 890523. ref SDS 3 SQ5L
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Killer App Collaboration Communication Civilization Shows Cost Savin
Killer App Ontology OpenCyc by Cycorp Supported by DARPA
Alphabetic Mind, Havlock Explosive Technology Enabled Change in Life
Alphabet Technology Makes People Superhuman Enabled Civilization Lit
Alphabetic Mind Change Life-style from Orality to Literacy Enabled A
Semiotic Signs Symbols Knowledge = Communication + Meaning + Inferen

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730901 -  ..
730902 - Superhuman with Alphabet; SDS Improves Alphabet Technology
730903 - Alphabet Technology Change in Life-style from Orality to Literacy
730904 - Killer Application Improves Alphabet Technology with Intelligence
730905 -
730906 - The 3rd para from the end says....
730907 -
730908 -       Now, three years later, Lenat believes Cyc is much closer to
730909 -       fulfilling the role of an intelligent system that augments human
730910 -       capabilities, which after all is the central goal of AI
730911 -       research. "Once you have a truly massive amount of information
730912 -       integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be
730913 -       superhuman," Lenat says, "in the same sense that mankind with
730914 -       writing is superhuman compared to mankind before writing."
730915 -       ref OF 1 816O
730917 -  ..
730918 - Lenat's comment in the article received today, per above, ref SDS 0
730919 - N63F, aligns with Havelock, who says the alphabet is an "explosive
730920 - technology" that lifted civilization, reviewed on 991108. ref SDS 44
730921 - 5628  On 991209 Plato agreed noting in 400 BC the alphabet improves
730922 - memory and intelligence (i.e., "wit"). ref SDS 45 3416
730923 -
730924 -          [On 071113 Jack Park submits paper explaining power of
730925 -          alphabet technology to advance civilization. ref SDS C2 PH4K
730927 -  ..
730928 - Actually this quote attributed to Lenat is also at another source....
730929 -
730930 -       http://www.ubmail.ubalt.edu/~harsham/Business-stat/opre504.htm
730931 -
730932 - ...which does not have anchors for addressability, but says under a
730933 - heading for....
730934 -
730935 -      Statistical Modeling for Decision-Making under
730936 -      Uncertainties: From Data to the Instrumental Knowledge
730938 -       ..
730939 -      Fact becomes knowledge, when it is used in the successful
730940 -      completion of decision process. Once you have a massive amount of
730941 -      facts integrated as knowledge, then your mind will be superhuman
730942 -      in the same sense that mankind with writing is superhuman
730943 -      compared to mankind before writing.
730945 -  ..
730946 - The original source is unclear in the record, since there is no
730947 - attribution in either source.  Lenat could have quoted the other
730948 - source, since it is undated, but shows ongoing editing from 1994 to
730949 - the present.  Perhaps the reporter misssed the attribution, or just
730950 - left it out as not important.  Lenat may have overlooked it, got it
730951 - from yet a another source, etc.  It is just curious that the language
730952 - is identical.
730954 -  ..
730955 - The relevant point is that serious people trying to augment human
730956 - capabilities, recognize that alphabet technology is the foundation of
730957 - civilization.  POIMS makes the additional observation that augmenting
730958 - alphabet technology therefore has a direct impact on productivity by
730959 - augmenting intelligence. ref OF 3 ER3G
730960 -
730961 -        [On 040508 Gary Johnson submits research indicating that
730962 -        language holds incredible ways to change culture and behavior.
730963 -        ref SDS C1 568F
730965 -  ..
730966 - The goal of artificial intelligence (AI) implied by Lenat's comment is
730967 - to augment intelligence, since that is the only thing that makes
730968 - people "superhuman."  It reflects Landauer's point about improving the
730969 - ability to think, except Landauer notes that engineers do not know how
730970 - to accomplish this goal, from review on 950710, ref SDS 18 8911, and
730971 - explained in NWO. ref OF 5 7492
730973 -  ..
730974 - Making people "superhuman" is an important goal of AI, of a paperless
730975 - office, virtual office, of business intelligence, and of KM, i.e., to
730976 - somehow, someway, develop technology that leverages human
730977 - intelligence.
730979 -  ..
730980 - Unfortunately, AI has come to be associated with enabling computers to
730981 - think like to humans by possessing sentience, which is not possible.
730982 - However, the goal to leverage human thought by improving alphabet
730983 - technology presents a powerful opportunity to advance civilization
730984 - by adding intelligence to information produced by literacy in....
730985 -
730986 -                        government
730987 -                        military
730988 -                        law
730989 -                        business
730990 -                        health
730991 -                        education
730992 -                        science
730994 -  ..
730995 - Lenat's observation that writing makes people "superhuman" aligns with
730996 - Havlock explaining the alphabet was an explosive technology that
730997 - enabled civilization to flourish, ref SDS 44 5628, similar to an
730998 - automobile augmenting the ability to run and carry things, per
730999 - analysis of the power of organic structure to grow knowledge like DNA,
731000 - on 910221. ref SDS 5 OP7M and earlier on 890523. ref SDS 3 P13O
731002 -  ..
731003 - POIMS explains SDS improves alphabet technology by adding time to
731004 - information.  Lenat's and Havelock's criteria may therefore indicate
731005 - SDS lifts civilization to a new platau. ref OF 3 3742  This meets
731006 - demand for a "Killer App" cited by Larry Ellison with Oracle, on
731007 - 970222. ref SDS 28 8529  More recently on 010223 IT executives
731008 - complain there are no "killer apps" for technology; nobody knows what
731009 - customers want. ref SDS 91 WG8O
731011 -  ..
731012 - The article does not report why Lenat says the alphabet makes people
731013 - "superhuman," nor is there analysis presented on this proposition,
731014 - which, for many, is a "funny" and "foreign" idea, from work on 990713,
731015 - ref SDS 40 1767, because it is so deeply ingrained in our culture
731016 - thanks to those who struggled for hundreds of years against the status
731017 - quo.
731019 -  ..
731020 - I sent a reply to Howard, which went to the entire group saying....
731021 -
731022 -      Did anyone get to the last sentence in the 3rd para from the
731023 -      bottom? ref SDS 0 N668  This point was discussed during the
731024 -      meeting with Ted Nelson at SRI on 010605, as the secret of moving
731025 -      beyond IT to a culture of knowledge. ref SDS A7 RO4L
731027 -       ..
731028 -      Lenat does not seem to mention ontology, nor the organic
731029 -      structure of knowledge that makes intelligence at once powerful,
731030 -      and a thorny challenge, absent a theory of knowledge, which Doug
731031 -      asked about on 000307. ref SDS 54 4820
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SUBJECTS
Ontology Organization Process Subjects Topics Catagories Classficatio
Ontology Definition
Ontology is Words and Phrases in Common Use
Ontology SDS Only Implementation Using Organic Subject Structures
Organic Subject Structure Research SDS Enhances Intelligence, 001011,
Subject Indexing Organic Structure Like Alphabet DNA
Organic Structure Alphabet Assembles Small Meanings into the "Big Pic

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921001 -  ..
921002 - Ontology Definition Augments Human Capabilities with Writing
921003 -
921004 - Jack wrote a letter back this evening, which was not captured in the
921005 - correspondence record, but saying.....
921006 -
921007 -      I would like to think that you will take the time to describe the
921008 -      *organic structure of knowledge* and do so in terms of the words
921009 -      and phrases (ontology) the Unrev readership is familiar with.  It
921010 -      will be interesting to compare such a description to the vast
921011 -      amount of literature that follow's Lenat's long and
921012 -      well-documented route that led to Cyc.
921014 -  ..
921015 - A special vocabulary of words and phrases common to a group relates to
921016 - culture, lexicon, argot.  This does not seem to fit the definition of
921017 - "ontology" Jack submitted on 000221. ref SDS 50 6W6N
921018 -
921019 -      [On 010627 submitted response to Jack. ref SDS B8 UQ4F
921020 -
921021 -      [On 010716 explain challenge of complexity relates to organic
921022 -      structure. ref SDS B9 5E4L
921024 -       ..
921025 -      [On 010820 inquiry about SDS asks how the record is categorized.
921026 -      ref SDS C0 S1PH
921028 -  ..
921029 - Jack discussed "ontology" with words and phrases on 000221 that said
921030 - it is a "Pandora's Box of complexity. ref SDS 50 7455  On 001130
921031 - Ontology was presented as providing automated linking and subject
921032 - management. ref SDS 85 0001
921034 -  ..
921035 - On 000227 Eric Armstrong reported that ability to quickly organize a
921036 - story into appropriate headings is useful. ref SDS 51 AP9J  In another
921037 - record the same day, explained how SDS uses organic subject structures
921038 - to organizes a story, or case study. ref SDS 52 SE6M
921040 -  ..
921041 - POIMS explains organic subject structure. ref OF 3 1110
921043 -  ..
921044 - On 890523 organic subject structure was reviewed. ref SDS 3 P13O
921046 -  ..
921047 - SDS provides an innovation, which is difficult to explain.
921049 -  ..
921050 - On 880628 reported organic subject structure is complex and so
921051 - difficult to explain in SDS Help. ref SDS 1 OL6H  Eventually wound up
921052 - with SDS....
921053 -
921054 -      .... lets Users maintain catagories at the pace of their work.
921055 -      The hierarchial structure can be expanded and accessed instantly
921056 -      as needed so it always reflects current needs, but never
921057 -      overwhelms the User with a lot of irrelevant detail. Like a
921058 -      biological organism, the Subject Index grows, but you only see
921059 -      the detail in the hierarchy needed for the current function. This
921060 -      is called an "organic subject structure."
921062 -  ..
921063 - NWO explains organic structure of knowledge in connection with the
921064 - power of the microcosm evident from DNA, nuclear energy and computer
921065 - chip design. ref OF 5 5024
921066 -    ..
921067 -    Organic subject structures can be thought of in terms common
921068 -    to the OHS/DKR team as putting documents in file folders and filing
921069 -    cabinets.  Lee Iverson explained in a paper on NODAL published
921070 -    010620 that engineers and programmers think of this as Email
921071 -    folders, ref SDS B6 BW9J, and file system directories on a
921072 -    computer. ref SDS B6 U78K and ref SDS B6 HS4H
921074 -     ..
921075 -    SDS method of organic subject structure was demonstrated to Cliff
921076 -    Joslyn on 000723, and he indicated it seems effective. ref SDS 78
921077 -    RN7J
921079 -     ..
921080 -    On 001011 research project was proposed to SRI on organic subject
921081 -    structures, ref SDS 80 FZ4F, and meaning drift. ref SDS 80 NW6N
921083 -     ..
921084 -    Organic subject structure was demonstrated to Henry van Eykan on
921085 -    001105, and he seemed to feel it is effective. ref SDS 84 WG6F
921086 -    ..
921087 -    On 010517 SDS organic subject structure was demonstrated to
921088 -    Pat Lincoln at SRI, ref SDS A4 UN4L and Pat indicated it was
921089 -    effective. ref SDS A4 TY7F
921091 -     ..
921092 -    A letter to Jack on 000605, ref SDS 74 218H, discussed organic
921093 -    subject structures in relation to "ontology," which is a common
921094 -    term for the OHS/DKR project. ref DIP 10 0895
921096 -     ..
921097 -    Jack has been offered the chance to see SDS, but has put this off
921098 -    to avoid conflicts with open source objectives.  It is another KM
921099 -    dilemma.
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