CONTACTS 
0201 - SRI International                                                                                                                                                  O-00000103 0701
020101 - Mr. Patrick L. Lincoln; Director
020103 - Computer Science Laboratory                                                                                                                                      O-00000103 0701

SUBJECTS
ASB 1st Draft Pat Lincoln Submit Comments to Consolidate Presentatio
Professional Review for Guidance on Preparing Initial Submission
ASB Professional Review for Guidance on Preparing Initial Submission
Letter Gary Submits to Pat at SRI and Cliff at LANL Requesting Comme
Lincoln Pat Contact Colleagues at SRI for Assistance and Will Notify

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3307 -    ..
3308 - Summary/Objective
3309 -
330901 - Follow up ref SDS 14 0000, ref SDS 13 0000.
330902 -
330903 - Pat looked through Gary's letter, ref DRP 3 0001, requesting feedback
330904 - on the 1st draft of the ASB proposal at Aerospace company, which was
330905 - submitted to Pat last week on 040713. ref SDS 14 H46O
330907 -  ..
330908 - Pat has recently been assigned to manage another lab, in addition to
330909 - the Computer Science lab at SRI.  This limits his time to make the
330910 - review Gary requests.
330911 -
330912 -     [On 040816 submitted letter requesting review of outline in NWO on
330913 -     intelligence, and 2nd draft of ASB filing that is about 75%
330914 -     smaller that 1st draft submitted today. ref SDS 16 S56O
330916 -  ..
330917 - We discussed briefly, that if Pat cannot make time to support tools
330918 - that save time, the work will continue to degrade to entropy, per his
330919 - letter on 010111. ref SDS 5 3X4I and ref SDS 5 EF6M
330921 -  ..
330922 - Pat will send Gary a letter advising he has received Gary's request
330923 - for comments on the 1st draft of the ASB for SDS at Aerospace company.
330924 - Pat will tell Gary that his time is limited, but he has some ideas on
330925 - getting professional review of the ASB draft at SRI.
330926 -
330927 -     [On 040722 Pat responded to Gary. ref SDS 15 OM5J
330929 -      ..
330930 -     [On 040816 submitted reduced version of ASB that should take less
330931 -     time to review. ref SDS 16 S56O
330933 -  ..
330934 - Pat feels that no one in the two labs he manages at SRI is qualified
330935 - to review the ASB and make constructive comments.  There are people in
330936 - other departments he can ask to perform this task.
330938 -      ..
330939 -     [On 040722 letter to Pat suggesting way for people in the labs to
330940 -     comment on ASB, even though lacking experience with in KM.
330941 -     ref SDS 15 7J9T
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330944 -  ..
330945 - Prospects for Experimentation to Evaluate SDS
330946 -
330947 - Pat mentioned an investigator at SRI who is developing work, which Pat
330948 - feels is related to SDS and Com Metrics, and has a funded project.  It
330949 - was something like Juno, or Java, which is different from the CALO
330950 - project reviewed on 040221. ref SDS 12 5U6J
330952 -  ..
330953 - Pat indicated he will try to facilitate introduction of Com Metrics
330954 - and SDS to the developer, and he will discuss assigning someone to
330955 - comment on the ASB draft on SDS being considered by the Aerospace
330956 - company.
330957 -
330959 -  ..
330960 - Resistance Impulsively Believe Their Project Supercedes SDS
330961 -
330962 - Pat noted that SDS may be resisted because folks believe they are
330963 - better capabilities than SDS.  He has met with senior people to
330964 - explain SDS will advance work at SRI, as related in Pat's letters on
330965 - 010111, ref SDS 5 3X4I, and indicated again on 020729. ref SDS 10 PQ6N
330967 -  ..
330968 - The meetings have not been constructive, as related last year on
330969 - 030808.  Researchers, scientists, engineers, and executives refused to
330970 - experiment, investigate, nor even consider SDS for supporting their
330971 - work. ref SDS 11 J54K  Similar experience on 970611 showed prevailing
330972 - paradigms make people willfully blind to working intelligently, until
330973 - they retire, and worry that SDS is an explosive technology.
330974 - ref SDS 2 2870
330976 -  ..
330977 - Failure to experiment is commonly cited in the literature for causing
330978 - slow progress on Knowledge Management, reported on 011102. ref SDS 9
330979 - IT5S
330981 -  ..
330982 - People say they are building advanced technology, and so believe SDS
330983 - is not needed.  Pat indicated that years of experience, beginning on
330984 - 000725, ref SDS 4 0001, meeting with Curt on 010122, ref SDS 6 0001,
330985 - demonstration of SDS on 010517, ref SDS 8 9879, etc., show SDS is
330986 - different from what others are doing, but since they don't have SDS
330987 - experience, and will not support experimentation to gain experience,
330988 - SDS is hard to explain, without trying to teach a course on good
330989 - management practice, and cognitive science that are combined in POIMS.
330990 - ref OF 4 O87L  He feels a lot of people who reach positions in
330991 - management have not studied management and distrust cognitive science.
330992 - They are necessarily busy, anxious about budgets, and meeting
330993 - deadlines to produce results, and so impatient, get frustrated and mad
330994 - over efforts to educate them in meetings by a junior person on matters
330995 - which they believe they already know.
330997 -  ..
330998 - This dilemma of explaining seminal work was noted in Pat's letter
330999 - saying...
331000 -
331001 -            There is a tremendous amount of context required to
331002 -            understand what you are getting at.  I think that [POIMS]
331003 -            is interesting [e.g., dichotomy between orality and
331004 -            literacy], although I think I understood only some large
331005 -            fraction of what you are talking about.
331006 -
331007 - ...reported on 010426. ref SDS 7 IB6N  People without Pat's experience
331008 - working with SDS grasp a smaller fraction of SDS objectives and
331009 - capabilities, and this makes people mad.  Morris cited this problem at
331010 - Chips & Technologies on 890809. ref SDS 1 EB6K  He explained similar
331011 - frustrations at Intel on 990527. ref SDS 3 074D
331013 -  ..
331014 - This cultural barrier of people speculating about SDS prevents
331015 - grasping that SDS complements whatever they are doing.
331017 -  ..
331018 - Pat will send a few people email forwarding Gary's letter and say that
331019 - he will call them to discuss SDS and the ASB filing on how SRI might
331020 - respond constructively.
331022 -  ..
331023 - Pat will send a copy of all letters to Welch demonstrating actions
331024 - taken.
331025 -
331026 -     [On 040722 Pat responded to Gary. ref SDS 15 OM5J
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