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
SDS Similar to Augment NLS, Terry Winograd at Stanford
Asks About Commonalities Between SDS and Doug's Goals for Technology

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5912 -    ..
5913 - Summary/Objective
5914 -
591401 - Follow up ref SDS 87 0000, ref SDS 84 0000.
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591406 -
591408 -  ..
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5917 - Progress
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591801 -
591802 - Doug is preparing for a presentation at Berkeley on 020405, next
591803 - Monday.
591805 -  ..
591806 - Doug is also pursuing an initiative of some kind related to Singapore,
591807 - and seemed to indicate that this opportunity is aided by active
591808 - support of the government for Knowledge Management.
591810 -  ..
591811 - Library methodology was, also, discussed by Doug this evening; not
591812 - sure if this pertained to his talk at Berkeley on Monday or the
591813 - Singapore initiative.
591814 - ..
591815 - I called to discuss the SDS design for a new way of thinking and
591816 - working based on a core competency that advances alphabet technology
591817 - and literacy that enables continual learning, as explained in POIMS.
591818 - ref OF 2 ER3G  Better education through continual learning using SDS
591819 - for adding intelligence to information was reviewed on 011029.
591820 - ref SDS 64 J44I  This question arises from lack of understanding about
591821 - the role of SDS relative to other software for....
591822 -
591823 -        •  Wordprocessing programs to write information...
591824 -        •  Outlining to organize information...
591825 -        •  Data base to retrieve information...
591826 -        •  Spreadsheet to manipulate information...
591827 -        •  Schedule to plan action that creates more information...
591828 -        •  Document Management to track information...
591829 -        •  Command Center that manages information...
591830 -        •  Dental program that manages a dential practice...
591831 -        •  Banking that tracks load history....
591832 -        •  Education that improves note taking....
591833 -        •  Manufacturing program to manage allocation of resources...
591834 -        •  Technology program to manage creating software....
591835 -        •  Medical program to manage doctor patient communication...
591836 -        •  Government program to manage daily affairs....
591837 -        •  Science program to manage experiments....
591839 -  ..
591841 -  ..
591842 - In other words, everyone who sees SDS has a different application,
591843 - when in fact there is a single application for everything.
591845 -  ..
591846 - Doug asked about my explanation for the application of SDS?
591848 -  ..
591849 - We reviewed POIMS explaining that SDS improves alphabet technology to
591850 - strengthen ability to think, remember and communicate, which enable
591851 - collaboration and cooperation. ref OF 2 3742  As a result, SDS helps
591852 - all cognitive activity.
591854 -  ..
591855 - This makes SDS a foundational technology for accomplishing Doug's goal
591856 - for evolutionary improvement, which he discussed during a meeting at
591857 - SRI on 010605. ref SDS 50 244L  In other words, to improve x we need
591858 - some tools y for operating over time on x and its environment.  For
591859 - example the foudational tools for biology is DNA, i.e., a process
591860 - using underlying building blocks to construct new forms that are then
591861 - tested for viability based on survival.
591862 - ..
591863 - SDS theory in POIMS holds that up until now, and since about 700
591864 - BC, the foundational tool set for technology has been alphabet
591865 - technology, including mathematics for developing information.  SDS
591866 - integrates a dimension of time with information that aids the
591867 - knowledge creation function which up until now has been processed
591868 - solely in the human mind.
591870 -  ..
591871 - For example, when we write a letter, article, report or a book, or
591872 - when we prepare a spreadsheet, the reasoning for what is written and
591873 - entered and what is left out, is only processed in the mind, and
591874 - becomes a component of personal memory.  SDS provides an environment
591875 - for externalizing this reasoning and to "debug" it in relation to
591876 - alignment with personal and organizational memory, and to thereafer
591877 - become new experience that aids personal and organizational memory for
591878 - future reasoning in 10 minutes, 10 hours, 10 days, months, years,
591879 - decades, centuries, and it will not have been infected by the scourage
591880 - of meaning drift that occurs in biological memory.
591881 - ..
591882 - On 011210 Doug and I discussed this opportunity, ref SDS 77
591883 - 0001, and at that time, Doug introduced Terry Winograd at Stanford.
591884 - ref SDS 77 JL5I, which led to a meeting on 011219, ref SDS 82 XO33,
591885 - aimed at engaging the education community in advancing continual
591886 - learning. ref SDS 82 Y74N and ref SDS 82 3K5H
591887 - ..
591888 - This evening, Doug asked about commonalities between SDS and his
591889 - goals for continual improvement?
591890 - ..
591891 - We reviewed Terry Winograd's question on 011213 noting SDS seems
591892 - like NLS that Doug developed in the 1960s at SRI. ref SDS 80 6P4M
591893 - Doug was asked for his understanding about commonalities between SDS
591894 - and NLS at that time.  Since I have not seen NLS work product, there
591895 - is no basis for me to comment on that matter.  So far, Doug has not
591896 - had time to address Terry's question.
591898 -  ..
591899 - The record on 991222 cites Doug's objectives for Bootstrap to create a
591900 - new way of thinking and working. ref SDS 14 3696  Doug's paper
591901 - published in 1992 cites the role of intelligence. ref SDS 14 8064
591902 - These ideas relate to Doug's call for an ABC improvement process, also
591903 - reviewed in 991222. ref SDS 14 1550
591904 -
591905 -     1.  Creating a new way of thinking and working requires
591906 -         understanding the architecture of human thought as a baseline
591907 -         from which to create something new.  POIMS explains how SDS
591908 -         augments intelligence, ref OF 2 0367, based on a simple, but
591909 -         powerful enhancement to alphabet technology. ref OF 2 ER3G
591910 -         ..
591911 -     2.  SDS extends the power of literacy for continual learning
591912 -         that accomplishes Doug's objectives for an ABC improvement
591913 -         process, see POIMS. ref OF 2 3742
591915 -  ..
591916 - Doug commented that an engine for continual improvment has not been
591917 - developed; he noted that Ted Nelson disagrees, and argues that this
591918 - has been accomplished, perhaps through hypertext of some kind that Ted
591919 - has been developing for many years.  Doug did not elaborate on Ted's
591920 - specific solution.  There is nothing in the record showing hypertext
591921 - or hyperdocuments augment intelligence, although these are important
591922 - enabling capabilities.  The record on 000307 reviewed Ted's ideas
591923 - emobdied in "Xanadu." ref SDS 20 0001
591925 -  ..
591926 - Doug indicated that a solution needs to be identified through
591927 - experience by pilot testing different people's ideas.
591929 -  ..
591930 - SDS has been pilot tested since about 1985, and USACE's report on
591931 - 970328 says SDS enables intelligence support. ref DRP 4 6172  It is
591932 - not clear that another solution is available to pilot test.  For
591933 - example, on 011003 Jack Park reported that years of research has not
591934 - turned up a clue. ref SDS 60 O74L  This aligns with Jack's letter on
591935 - 011208, and is further supported by Lee Iverson's report during a
591936 - meeting at SRI on 000324. ref SDS 21 4877  On 001130 IBM reported
591937 - their KM project Raven was delayed. ref SDS 41 F26K  This record seems
591938 - to indicate only SDS can be further pilot tested.
591940 -  ..
591941 - The telecon with Doug on 991222 discussed alliance and pilot testing
591942 - to accomplish Doug's goal for a new way of thinking and working based
591943 - on continual improvement. ref SDS 14 5402  SDS has demonstrated
591944 - consistent ability to produce work product that adds intelligence to
591945 - convert information into knowledge, which is a new way of working and
591946 - thinking for continual learning and improvement. But, on 000223 there
591947 - was not enough bandwidth for alliance and pilot testing. ref SDS 18
591948 - V2GS
591950 -  ..
591951 - On 001017 exposure to SDS work product occurred for a number of months
591952 - through OHS/DKR activity. ref SDS 34 1575  On 001027 Doug commented
591953 - that SDS enables effective support for knowledge work. ref SDS 36 XV6F
591954 - On 010916 Eric Armstrong reported SDS enables amazing memory using
591955 - mechanisms that obviously work. ref SDS 58 0001
591957 -  ..
591958 - Accordingly, the question arises about how much pilot testing is
591959 - needed for SDS; or, whether people really want to perform KM or merely
591960 - have an interesting subject for discussion?
591962 -  ..
591963 - We reviewed the letter to Doug on 991222, ref DIP 9 0001, that
591964 - analysed Doug's interest in "intelligence" related in his 1992 paper
591965 - and is implemented by SDS. ref SDS 14 8064
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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

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620601 -  ..
620602 - Analyst Role Needed to Manage Organic Subject Structure
620603 - Augment NLS Did Not Use Ontology, Organic Structure Manage Subjects
620604 -
620605 - Follow up ref SDS 87 VT6L.
620606 -
620607 - We recalled the telecon on 020218 when Doug seemed to say that NLS did
620608 - not use an organic subject structure. ref SDS 87 VT6L
620610 -  ..
620611 - Doug said he has a question.
620613 -  ..
620614 - He asked if SDS uses a hierarchial structure for assigning subjects?
620616 -  ..
620617 - Doug related that experience at SRI with Augment NLS in the 1960s, and
620618 - later when he was with McDonald Douglas in the 1970s it was evident
620619 - that some form of a hierarchial structure is needed for assigning
620620 - subjects.  Recent work and literature in knowledge management shows
620621 - that efforts to use meta data for managing context has proven
620622 - difficult.  Doug asked how SDS solves this problem?
620623 -
620624 -      [On 021031 Sergey Brin with Google reports people have given up
620625 -      on using meta data to organize the record for finding
620626 -      information. ref SDS 90 VX4J
620628 -  ..
620629 - We reviewed the record on 910810 showing that SDS integrates
620630 - hierarchial and relational methodologies to manage context with
620631 - organic structures, commonly called "subjects." ref SDS 3 7793  POIMS
620632 - explains SDS uses a system of organic structure for managing context
620633 - that applies classic ideas about management by objectives. ref OF 6
620634 - 1110
620636 -  ..
620637 - This design provides a flexible structure with everything organized in
620638 - the right place at the right time that makes retrieving information
620639 - fast and easy, reviewed on 890523. ref SDS 1 SQ5L
620641 -  ..
620642 - On 010916 Eric Armstrong commented that the SDS design enables amazing
620643 - organizational memory using mechanisms that obviously work. ref SDS 58
620644 - 0001
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