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DIARY: April 8, 2002 10:47 AM Monday; Rod Welch

Called Cliff about using SDS for KM research.

1...Summary/Objective


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CONTACTS 
0201 - Los Alamos National Laboratory       505 665 0134
020101 - Mr. Cliff Joslyn; 505 667 9096
020102 - joslyn@lanl.gov
020103 - Computer Research Group (CIC-3)

SUBJECTS
Difficult KM Hard to Design, Not Understood
Theory of Knowledge Chronology Causation Experience
Meaning Drift Needs Research Per Telecon John Hogden
LANL Reseach SDS for Saving Time Money Solve Meaning Drift

1106 -    ..
1107 - Summary/Objective
1108 -
110801 - Follow up ref SDS 79 0000, ref SDS 78 0000.
110802 -
110803 - Culture of knowledge can be fostered by Cliff's paper, ref DIP 14
110804 - FE8J, confirming the letter on 010126. ref SDS 77 4K5G
110805 -
110806 - Cliff was not in so spoke to John Hogden who works with Cliff.
110807 -
110808 - John explained that funding for the Xerox project, which we discussed
110809 - on 000331, ref SDS 33 4839, has been withdrawn.
110810 -
110811 - Cliff has obtained funding until 020930.  We discussed increased
110812 - demand for intelligence following events on 010911. ref SDS 85 UP5K
110813 - ..
110814 - So far, funding has not been applied to solve this problem
110815 - because people have lost faith in using technology for adding
110816 - intelligence to management, as related on....
110817 -
110818 -      DARPA................................... 010426. ref SDS 81 657O
110819 -      DOD..................................... 010712, ref SDS 82 ZR5G
110820 -      DCMA.................................... 010730, ref SDS 83 2N5K
110821 - ..
110822 - John recalled having discussed SDS with Cliff, but not for some
110823 - time.
110824 -
110825 - He asked for an explanation of SDS.
110826 -
110827 - We reviewed background when SDS was discussed with John previously
110828 - on....
110829 -
110830 -      Theory and design....................... 011011, ref SDS 87 VF4K
110831 -      SDS support Xerox project............... 000331, ref SDS 33 9797
110832 -      SDS linking related to Xerox project.... 000316, ref SDS 30 0733
110833 - ..
110834 - The groups' current project is to research ways to improve
110835 - retrieval of documents.  John related that many people would like to
110836 - have command and control of the record supported by SDS, as explained
110837 - in POIMS. ref OF 1 1113
110838 -
110839 - We reviewed Cliff's comments on 000424 that SDS enables finding
110840 - information better than other methods. ref SDS 38 0001  Other people
110841 - have also recognized this benefit of SDS, as reported recently on
110842 - 010916. ref SDS 86 0001
110843 -
110844 - Over the past several years more people are noticing that SDS is
110845 - effective, as shown on 010907. ref SDS 84 0P8P
110846 - ..
110847 - John explained his group on KM is focused on basic research for
110848 - developing KM.
110849 -
110850 -     [On 020415 John explained KM competitions sponsored by NIST focus
110851 -     on retrieving information from documents. ref SDS 89 TJ4L
110852 -
110853 - We reviewed two (2) issues that require research....
110854 -
110855 -    1.  Impact of meaning drift that makes communication the biggest
110856 -        risk in enterprise, per POIMS. ref OF 1 R69H
110857 -
110858 -        John asked how this research could be done?
110859 -
110860 -        Some ideas may be evident from a few paragraphs in NWO.
110861 -        ref OF 3 9449
110862 -        ..
110863 -        Cliff touched on an avenue of basic research to
110864 -        understand the mathematics of the SDS design, in his remarks
110865 -        about SDS during his presentation at SRI on 000727. ref SDS 53
110866 -        3960  This aligns with comments by Professor Ransdell on 000716
110867 -        that the SDS design to improve communication has eluded
110868 -        discovery since the 17th century. ref SDS 49 7838
110869 -        ..
110870 -    2.  Cost savings from using SDS for Com Metrics.
110871 -
110872 -        Demonstrating a stronger base of cost savings to cooborate the
110873 -        study reported by USACE would give KM increased visibility and
110874 -        demand, by overcoming frustrations that KM doesn't work, cited
110875 -        above. ref SDS 0 ZA4J
110876 -
110877 - John took a moment while we were talking and reviewed the two reports
110878 - by USACE....
110879 -
110880 -      SDS supports "intelligence"......... 970328, ref DRP 3 6172
110881 -
110882 -      Intelligence saves time and money... 971007, ref DRP 4 0001
110883 -
110884 - John indicated research to prove KM enables intelligence that saves
110885 - lives in the case of national security and saves time and money for
110886 - management would be a worthwhile project.
110887 - ..
110888 - It would be helpful to submit proposals for these projects
110889 - through Las Alamos because this venue offers credibility and enables
110890 - Welch to focus on the substance of the work, rather than
110891 - administration issues of funding.
110892 -
110893 - John will discuss this with Cliff tomorrow, or at least by 020415
110894 - when there is a meeting scheduled.
110895 -
110896 - He suggested sending a separate letter to bring Cliff up todate on
110897 - our discussion.
110898 -
110899 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to Cliff linked to this record for
110900 - background; sent copy to John.
110901 -
110902 -     [On 020413 John talked to Cliff about SDS, and Cliff seemed to
110903 -     indicated that the design using assembly language makes it hard
110904 -     for people to use SDS. ref SDS 88 0001
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