Thanks a million, Leo. This is great! (01)
I'll send something to Steve right away, and will keep both of you in
the loop. (02)
-ppy
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Leo Obrst wrote Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:27:45 -0400:
> Peter, Kurt,
>
> I finally connected with Steve Ray of NIST today. We had been playing
> phone tag for nearly 2 weeks, I guess. Anyway, I spoke with him about 20
> minutes or so, and described the Ontolog venture, etc. I said I was
> trying to grease the wheels, but suggested that Peter would probably
> want to talk with him. He seems pretty receptive, though his budget
> includes hardware, people, and potential funding. But he welcomes
> initially an email exchange of further information. He wondered whether
> ontolog wanted to be a non-profit or a for-profit. I said we really
> didn't know yet how it would be evolve. But he mentioned that you might
> consider SBIR funding (Small Business Innovation Grant), open to small
> businesses that match a given agency's broad area announcements (BAA) or
> equivalents. I think all federal research funding agencies have to
> allocate 2% of their budget for SBIRs. I am sorry I didn't think of this
> myself, since I was in a partnership with 2 other guys from about
> 1992-1997 (when I left Boeing and came to MITRE, where I had to divest
> outside financial intersts such as this) called SDG (Software
> Development Group) and we obtained 2 SBIR grants -- one from another
> division in NIST (knowledge-based SQL conformance testing) and the Army
> Research Lab (constraint-based natural language understanding). It might
> help!
>
> Anyway, Steve's address is: ray@xxxxxxxx
> and he is awaiting a message and email exchange. You can cc-me on your
> email too.
>
> Thanks,
> Leo (04)
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