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DIARY: January 28, 2002 08:18 PM Monday; Rod Welch

Called Doug Engelbart about meeting with Terry Winograd.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Analyst Role Needed to Manage Organic Subject Structure
3...Augment NLS Did Not Use Ontology, Organic Structure Manage Subjects
4...Intelligence Resisted Because Linking New Way of Working
5...Linking to Create Intelligence Resisted Regardless of How Easy
6...Psychological Resistance Prevents Linking to Create Intelligence


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CONTACTS 
0201 - Bootstrap Institute
020101 - Mr. Douglas C. Engelbart, Ph.D.
0202 - Stanford University
020201 - Mr. Terry Winograd, PhD; Professor

SUBJECTS
Faith Gain Experience to Invest Limited Time Nobody Has Experience or
Winograd, Terry Introduction Set Meeting Discuss Need for Education F
SDS Combines Time Subject Structure of KM Design Unique Comprehensive
Customers Comprehend Message Effective, David Stanfield
Engelbart, Doug Made Introduction Education Contact Teach Com Metrics
AI Ontology Semantically Rich Knowledge Bases Enable Intelligent Appl
Ontology Vocabulary for Mediators, Agents of AI Effort, 000221
AI Cannot Think No Biological Drives Cannot Map Human Experience

5710 -
5710 -    ..
5711 - Summary/Objective
5712 -
571201 - Follow up ref SDS 79 0000, ref SDS 73 0000.
571202 -
571203 - Doug related having just returned from attending a conference in
571204 - Oregon on the philosophy of augmenting intelligence.  He feels this
571205 - group showed promise of understaniding how to use computers to aid
571206 - human thinking.  Some attendees were software engineers, but many were
571207 - librarians, which reflects the skills needed for using computers to
571208 - improve management.
571209 -
571210 -     On 940510 librarians are a key ingredient in advancing the use of
571211 -     computers for augmenting intelligence. ref SDS 5 WJ4H
571213 -  ..
571214 - Thanked Doug again for his introduction to Terry Winograd on 011210,
571215 - ref SDS 73 JL5I, that led to a meeting on 011219, ref SDS 77 0001,
571216 - about the role of education in fostering a culture of knowledge, per
571217 - the record on 011210. ref SDS 73 0001
571219 -  ..
571220 - Briefly reviewed telecon on 020106 when we discussed difficulty people
571221 - in technology have recognizing opportunity to use computer power for
571222 - augmenting human intelligence, rather than trying to get computers to
571223 - think like people, per meeting with Terry Winograd at Stanford on
571224 - 011229. ref SDS 77 VD4M
571226 -  ..
571227 - Meeting with Terry on 010219 added to evidence that there is no class
571228 - of software for using computers to aid human thinking, and there is no
571229 - formal education for teaching engineers to design software that is
571230 - useful for augmenting intelligence to improve productivity.  Calls
571231 - for...
571232 -
571233 -          user centered design........... 950710, ref SDS 7 6403
571234 -          human centered design.......... 940510, ref SDS 5 3850
571235 -          empathic design................ 940508, ref SDS 4 6930
571236 -
571237 - ...summarized on 990527 in reviewing Clay Christensen's book, "The
571238 - Innovators Dilemma," ref SDS 12 3034, are not supported by formal
571239 - education, per telecon with Morris on 020107. ref SDS 80 M18J
571241 -  ..
571242 - The letter to Terry on 020104 proposed that efforts in education need
571243 - to integrate management science, cognitive science and technology.
571244 - ref DIP 5 SG8M, per telecon with Doug on 011210. ref SDS 73 0001
571246 -  ..
571247 - Doug advised that he has promoted similar advances in education for a
571248 - long time, but has not been successful in overcoming prevailing
571249 - paradigms that prevent teaching empathic, human and user centered
571250 - design.
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SUBJECTS
Augment NLS History, Lee Iverson Attribution for NODAL, CDR
Augment NLS Did Not Employ a System of Ontology, Organic Subject Stru
Analyst Needed for Intelligence that Managers Organic Subject Structu

6005 -
600601 -  ..
600602 - Analyst Role Needed to Manage Organic Subject Structure
600603 - Augment NLS Did Not Use Ontology, Organic Structure Manage Subjects
600604 -
600605 - We reviewed the need for an analyst role to develop and maintain
600606 - organic subject structure, explained on 890523. ref SDS 1 SQ5L  Some
600607 - authorities call for an "ontology," related in the record on 000221.
600608 - ref SDS 17 8044  On 010916 Eric Armstrong noticed that SDS has
600609 - mechanisms that obviously work to enable amazing memory. ref SDS 54
600610 - 0001  Earlier on 010425 using SDS was described as a utopia compared
600611 - to other methods, because everything is in the right place at the
600612 - right time.  Organic subject structure is the SDS process that makes
600613 - this possible.
600615 -  ..
600616 - The report on 010725 explains a role is needed for applying SDS unique
600617 - technology to organize the record, ref SDS 49 03M6, which is a key
600618 - part of "intelligence" set out in POIMS. ref OF 2 0367
600620 -  ..
600621 - Doug said the program he and his team developed at SRI in the 1960s,
600622 - called Augment NLS, did not have capability for organizing the record
600623 - with subjects based on the organic structure of context to make
600624 - finding information fast and easy, as called out in POIMS. ref OF 6
600625 - KH8J, which is described as an ontology to segment the record for
600626 - managing context, also described in POIMS. ref OF 6 1110
600627 -
600628 -      [On 020404 Doug asks if SDS uses a hierarchial subject structure?
600629 -      ref SDS 84 VT6L
600631 -       ..
600632 -      [On 080108 Jack Park recalls similarities in editing features
600633 -      between SDS and Augment NLS. ref SDS 85 OG9G
600635 -  ..
600636 - Doug concurred that, even without an organic subject structure, a new
600637 - work role is needed to assist an organization in using Augment NLS
600638 - productively, which aligns with Doug's OHS Launch Plan issued on
600639 - 001025 that called for a "Knowledge Integrator." ref SDS 32 8094
600641 -  ..
600642 - This aligns with the Vannevar Bush article in 1945 calling for a new
600643 - professional "historian" to use computers for paperless office
600644 - efficiencies of electronic records management, reviewed on 960304.
600645 - ref SDS 8 X27O
600647 -  ..
600648 - Doug seemed to further agree this evening that this role would be even
600649 - more useful to organize the record in the manner supported by SDS, as
600650 - explained on 001219. ref SDS 39 4W4L
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SUBJECTS
Links Resisted New Way Working Intelligence Laziness People Call for

8303 -
830401 -  ..
830402 - Intelligence Resisted Because Linking New Way of Working
830403 - Linking to Create Intelligence Resisted Regardless of How Easy
830404 - Psychological Resistance Prevents Linking to Create Intelligence
830405 -
830406 - We reviewed the letter from Gary Johnson on 020114 saying that Gary
830407 - wants "addressability" in his records of daily working information
830408 - (Doug defined "daily working information in a 1972 paper, later
830409 - reviewed on 000327. ref SDS 19 3971)
830411 -  ..
830412 - Doug recalled that "addressability" is a feature he called out for the
830413 - OHS/DKR team to link communications....
830414 -
830415 -       Communications (email)................. 000405, ref SDS 20 2484
830416 -       OHS Launch Plan........................ 001025, ref SDS 32 00VU
830418 -  ..
830419 - There is a powerful annomoly in Gary's request for "addressability"
830420 - that does not encourage him to link communication.  He says creating
830421 - links is difficult, yet fails to request assistance to discover that
830422 - creating links is fast, easy and fun, as reported on 020114.
830423 - ref SDS 81 3H7J
830424 -
830425 -     [On 020313 Gary took the initiative and developed a solution based
830426 -     on Doug's lead in the NLS program, and Eugene Kim's efforts at the
830427 -     beginning of 2001. ref SDS 82 6F8N
830429 -      ..
830430 -     [On 020320 Gary's idea on adding redundant links to SDS was
830431 -     adopted. ref SDS 83 0001
830433 -  ..
830434 - Resistance to using links by someone, who expresses a strong desire to
830435 - improve management, reported on 011006, ref SDS 59 JQ6K, and who has
830436 - shown a good grasp of objectives and benefits for using technology to
830437 - improve management productivity, also reported on 011006, ref SDS 59
830438 - 536J, supports analysis on 001025 indicating a widespread
830439 - psychological, emotional barrier that prevents people from using
830440 - addressability to link the record in order to have fun saving time and
830441 - money. ref SDS 32 RK5G
830442 - ..
830443 - It goes beyond laziness cited by Jack Park on 010908,
830444 - ref SDS 51 YF3I and ref SDS 51 YF5O
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