CONTACTS 
0201 - University of Colorado             303 492 2875 fax or 800...
020101 - Mr. Thomas K. Landauer
0202 - Working Resources                  415 546 1252 fax or 800...
020201 - Dr. Maynard Brusman

SUBJECTS
PMI Event, Planning, Jul, Speakers,
Landauer, Tom, Brusman, Dr. Maynard
Bounchristiani, Dave, TMJB
Structure, Flow of Ideas, Order of Speakers

0806 -    ..
0807 - Summary/Objective
0808 -
080801 - Follow up ref SDS 16 0000, ref SDS 14 0000.
080802 -
080803 - I worked on analysis of Tom's expertise and interests for Asilomar per
080804 - his email at ref SDS 16 0001.
080805 -
080806 -
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0810 -
0811 - Progress
0812 -
081201 - Event Format, Speaker Time & Panels
081202 -
081203 - From the discussion with Morris on 960227, ref SDS 18 0777, it might
081204 - be a good idea to shorten the formal presentations, put the full
081205 - material in a narrative report, and then allow the speakers to
081206 - interact on a panel.  The key is for the moderator to keep the
081207 - interaction moving and relevant and the audience engaged.
081208 -
081209 - I sent Tom ref DIT 1 confirming this idea on presentation structure.
081210 -
081211 -
081212 -  ..
081213 - Brusman, Buoncristiani, & Landauer
081214 -
081215 - I think now it would make more sense for Dr. Brusman to present the
081216 - material on the use of psychologists in organizations to help solve
081217 - the communication probjems Millie and Morris have reported.
081218 -
081219 - Dave Bounchristiani can present how these communication problems can
081220 - result in lawsuits where no one can remember anything, underscoring
081221 - the fragility of "knowledge."
081222 -
081223 -      [See follow up at ref SDS 19 line 67.]
081224 -
081225 - Tom Landauer can then explain the underlying science that ties these
081226 - phenomena together under the information/time/confusion trilogy that
081227 - causes small mistakes to escalate, ref DIT 1 line 69, and which are
081228 - compounded by the faster pace of modern life, i.e., the Information
081229 - Highway.
081230 -
081231 - Morris then explains how this condition impacts the corporate/
081232 - executive perspective, and Intel can tell us about its vision of how
081233 - technology might be able to help.
081234 -
081235 -
081236 -
081237 - Tom's Outline Accepted
081238 -
081239 - Confirmed that Tom's outline is accepted ref DIT 1 0001, and that he
081240 - can tell the story his way which he notes in his letter, ref DRP 4
081241 - UG6L, received on 960227. ref SDS 16 CH5K
081242 -
081243 - I think Tom's should set out questions he might want to ask other
081244 - speakers, so if he does not think of them, or have time, members of
081245 - the audience are clued to make such inquiries.
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SUBJECTS
Human Memory, Brain, Knowledge
Research, Cognitive Science, Sources, Plato's Problem

1105 -   ..
110501 - Received the printed copy of Tom's outline and biography, see
110502 - ref DRP 3 0000, which supplements the material received via internet
110503 - on 960226. ref SDS 14 0000
110504 -
110505 -         [On 960321 began review for support on connectionist theory
110506 -         applied by SDS. ref SDS 20 8966]
110507 -
110508 -         [On 960324 see detailed review at ref SDS 21 0990.]
110509 -
110510 -
110511 -      ..
110512 -     Plato's Problem:  Latent Semantic Analysis
110513 -
110514 -     Tom submits a paper on Plato's Problem that presents a theory on
110515 -     the acquisition of knowledge through induction, primarily from
110516 -     text and language.
110517 -
110518 -     He does not define "knowledge" and seems to use information and
110519 -     knowledge interchangeably.
110520 -
110521 -           [On 960325, actually, this is treated at ref SDS 22 5689]
110522 -
110523 -     So far I have not seen consideration of the impact of time nor of
110524 -     the rate of flow of information on the ability to convert it into
110525 -     knowledge, nor of the role of confusion to alert the mind to
110526 -     possible mis-connections, and whether increasing the flow of
110527 -     information bypasses or dampers confusion.
110528 -
110529 -           [On 960321 "time" is covered somewhat at ref SDS 20 0076.]
110530 -
110531 -     The paper is none-the-less an excellent report on work Tom and his
110532 -     colleague at Bellcore have done to understand the mental process
110533 -     of learning, particularly by induction from proximity and
110534 -     frequency relationships of stimuli patterns based mainly on text.
110535 -
110536 -     Many of the concerns and solutions raised in the New World Order
110537 -     paper seem to be supported by Tom's paper.
110538 -
110539 -        [On 960325 convert information into knowledge. ref SDS 22 5689]
110540 -
110541 -        [On 960518 "meaning drift" correlates to "truth a moving
110542 -        target." ref SDS 23 3734]
110543 -
110544 -     The mathamatical model he descibes seems to be a process of
110545 -     converting information into more meaningful stuff, i.e.,
110546 -     knowledge.  The focus of the paper is on how it might work, and
110547 -     how well the model compares to real people in learning new words.
110548 -
110549 -     I sent Tom an email ref DIT 1 0000 asking to get the computer file
110550 -     for his paper so I don't have to scan it.
110551 -
110552 -         [On 960812 notified Dr. Landauer of correlation between his
110553 -         explanation of human mental functioning and the goals and
110554 -         functions of SDS. ref SDS 24 0000.]
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