CONTACTS 
0201 - SRI International                                                                                                                                                  O-00000103 1201
020101 - Mr. Jack Park;
020103 - CALO Project                                                                                                                                                     O-00000103 1201

SUBJECTS
Jack Making Progress with New Technologies at SRI Will Release Softw

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3004 - Summary/Objective
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300501 - Follow up ref SDS 34 0000. ref SDS 33 0000.
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3008 - Progress
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300901 - Background on Jack's interest in SDS is listed on 040227. ref SDS 23
300902 - I46N
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300905 - On 060131 Jack submitted a letter asking for Gary's comments on using
300906 - SDS. ref SDS 34 4Q5T  At that time, initial comments were developed,
300907 - ref SDS 34 MO3I, and Gary was notified. ref SDS 34 OY8V  A few days
300908 - ago on 060207 Gary had begun developing comments for Jack, and plans
300909 - to respond to Jack, when he gets time in his crowded schedule at work.
300910 - ref SDS 35 454M
300912 -  ..
300913 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to Jack letting him know that Gary plans to
300914 - respond to Jack's letter based on Gary's work reported 060207.
300915 - ref SDS 35 0001
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300917 -    1.  Got your letter on 060131 clarifying our discussion,
300918 -        ref SDS 34 4Q5T, at Doug's party on 060129. ref SDS 33 1W9N
300920 -         ..
300921 -    2.  As you can see, I jotted down some thoughts on your question,
300922 -        and then discussed this with Gary. ref SDS 34 MO3I  Things have
300923 -        heated up on his project, but he expects to address your
300924 -        question, hopefully next week. ref DIT 1 IA6H
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300927 -    3.  Yes, it's true.  We aren't getting younger (noted in Jack's
300928 -        letter on 060131, ref SDS 34 4Q5T), but you seem to defy time.
300929 -        ref DIT 1 QA6M (based on meeting Jack at Stanford on 060129,
300930 -        ref SDS 33 U171)
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300933 -    4.  I mentioned in a recent letter that only experience with work
300934 -        product will bring transformation, ref DIT 1 6R7F, from
300935 -        sensory-based IT to technology-based knowledge construction,
300936 -        ref SDS 34 YB4S, per your letter on 010908. ref SDS 14 YF5O
300937 -        Reliance on situational awareness for personal and
300938 -        organizational memory is so fast and easy that benefits of
300939 -        avoiding mistakes by working intelligently are "hidden in plain
300940 -        sight," as Gary would say. (see 030708, ref SDS 21 LV8G)  It's
300941 -        a knowledge management dilemma, to answer a question from the
300942 -        folks at NSF. (reviewed on 991213. ref SDS 3 0844)
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300944 -            [On 060211 Jack's new program, Open Iris, being used at SRI
300945 -            for CALO can help transformation by others. ref SDS 37 F457
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300948 -    5.  Only where people have a responsibility to work accurately and
300949 -        they feel the weight of accountability can improvement occur,
300950 -        and even this is pretty rare. ref DIT 1 ER7O  That's why change
300951 -        occurs over 10s and 100s of years. (see Fuller, reported on
300952 -        011210, ref SDS 16 R66K)  Internal management is just too easy
300953 -        for folks to point fingers at others to escape responsibility.
300954 -        External management has a slightly better chance, because
300955 -        people, who start out wanting someone to prove somebody else
300956 -        (e.g., contractor, owner, procurement officer, the Engineer)
300957 -        caused a problem, can embrace something like SDS long enough to
300958 -        discover that intelligence support is helpful.
300960 -         ..
300961 -    6.  Medical practice holds promise for transformation through
300962 -        experience at both the personal and corporate level.
300963 -        ref DIT 1 2U9F  At least we have found this to be true, because
300964 -        both parties have an elevated self-interest in accuracy to pay
300965 -        attention to the record long enough to discover benefits of
300966 -        managing context.  If you ask people to buy tools for keeping
300967 -        good records, or to work intelligently, they say no.  But if
300968 -        you can deliver work product for free that saves their life, or
300969 -        prevents a mistake that would have derailed their career and
300970 -        income they sometimes take notice, and in some cases this can
300971 -        be a spark that lights a fire.
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300974 -    7.  I am not familiar with Open Iris, which mentioned on 060129,
300975 -        ref SDS 33 7A4F, but suggest putting it to work helping people,
300976 -        so they become dependent on work product.  As you know, health
300977 -        care is an area where patients can do this without asking
300978 -        permission. ref DIT 1 GU4G  Here are a couple of examples;
300979 -        something very simple, ref SDS 36 0001, and something
300980 -        overwhelmingly complex. ref SDS 30 0001
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300983 -    8.  If you can get Open Iris to support the most simple to the most
300984 -        complex projects with the "plan, perform, report" intelligence
300985 -        process set out in POIMS, ref OF 6 6649, then it will be the
300986 -        universal solution for improving alphabet technology that lifts
300987 -        civilization.  With your background, you might shoot for a
300988 -        grant from a health related agency to test implementation of
300989 -        Open Iris. ref DIT 1 IV5I
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300991 -            [On 060211 Jack's new program, Open Iris, being used at SRI
300992 -            for CALO; how will others outside the project move to Open
300993 -            Iris? ref SDS 37 F457
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