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From: "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 08:36:09 -0800
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Thanks, Ed. Glad you liked it.  -ppy
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Ed Dodds wrote:    (02)

>Peter:
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>This (mp3 & ppt) was an excellent way to present this material. Thanks.
>
>Ed
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>---- Original message ----
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>>Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 07:49:01 -0800
>>From: "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>  
>>Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum]  Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation - Chris 
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>Menzel - Thu 2004.11.04  
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>>To: ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Chris Menzel <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>
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>>Folks,
>>
>>The digitized audio file (in mp3 format) of Chris Menzel's SCL 
>>presentation session is available for download.
>>See: 
>>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_11_04#nid082
>>
>>Enjoy ... feedback welcomed.
>>
>>Regards.  -ppy
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>>Peter P. Yim wrote Thu, 04 Nov 2004 23:10:37 -0800:
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>>>On behalf of Ontolog, I would like to express our appreciations to 
>>>Professor Chris Menzel, once again, for joining us this morning, and 
>>>giving us the very interesting talk on "Simple Common Logic (SCL)." 
>>>Thanks, also, to Adam Pease, for suggesting this, and for making the 
>>>invitation, in the first place. Thanks also, to everyone who 
>>>participated in the session. We had a great turn out this morning.
>>>
>>>The session proceedings, along with Chris' powerpoint slides (and 
>>>additional resources/links) are available at:
>>>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_11_04
>>>
>>>As I was mentioning at the session, we were experimenting with the 
>>>freeconference recording service. Looks like that went real well. (I 
>>>had prior engagements, and therefore, have not had time to go through 
>>>the entire recording, nor have I had time to post-process the 
>>>digitized audio file yet.)  I have, somehow, listened to a portion of 
>>>the recording through "telephone call-in", and it sounded great.
>>>
>>>Therefore, for those who really wished they could have joined us, but 
>>>were unable to, you're in luck! You, (and those who are curious to 
>>>find out how this worked out too) can get the audio playback with a 
>>>telephone call-in, and listen to the session recording. Information 
>>>about the access is available at: 
>>>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_11_04#nid082
>>>I have the mp3 file too, but would need to post-process it a little 
>>>before making it available from the ontolog site. So, stay tuned.
>>>
>>>Regards.  -ppy
>>>-- 
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>>>Peter P. Yim wrote Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:14:23 -0800:
>>>
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>>>>Dear Ontolog Members,
>>>>
>>>>Further to our earlier announcement, please be reminded that 
>>>>Professor Christopher Menzel (from Texas A&M University) will be 
>>>>giving a talk entitled: "*SCL: A Logic Standard for Semantic 
>>>>Integration*" during our upcoming regular conference call session.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>*Conference call-in details: *
>>>>
>>>>Date: Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004
>>>>Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT  (World Time: 
>>>>http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?
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>month=11&day=4&year=2004&hour=10&min=30&sec=0&p1=224) 
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>>>>Session Duration: 1.5 ~ 2 Hours
>>>>Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
>>>>Participant Access Code: "0686564#"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>*SCL* -- *Simple Common Logic* -- is an attempt to renew the idea of 
>>>>an overarching framework to facilitate integration at one higher 
>>>>level of abstraction: by specifying, in as general a way as possible, 
>>>>a flexible abstract standard that many different representation 
>>>>languages can satisfy. By publishing an abstract specification of 
>>>>one's language relative to the SCL standard, one thereby makes the 
>>>>representational character and expressive power of the language 
>>>>explicit, and information expressed in the language comprehensible to 
>>>>users of other conformant representation languages.
>>>>
>>>>In this (very informal!) presentation Chris will discuss SCL and also 
>>>>use it as a springboard for discussion of a number of related topics, 
>>>>including current popular KR frameworks -- notably frameworks arising 
>>>>out of work on the Semantic Web like RDF -- and the expressive 
>>>>differences between them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>*About the Speaker: *
>>>>
>>>>Professor Menzel is an Associate Professor at the Philosophy 
>>>>Department of Texas A&M University (College Station, TX 77840, USA) 
>>>>He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame 
>>>>where he wrote a dissertation on the philosophy of mathematics. He 
>>>>was then a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University at the Center 
>>>>for the Study of Language and Information (http://csli.stanford.edu), 
>>>>where he first became interested in knowledge representation. He has 
>>>>been a visiting research scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and 
>>>>Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Melbourne 
>>>>(http://www.csiro.au) and am currently visiting the Institute for 
>>>>Formal Ontology in Medical Information Science (IFOMIS) at the 
>>>>University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, Germany (http://ifomis.org). 
>>>>Professor Menzel's research interests reflect my initial background 
>>>>in "pure" metaphysics, formal ontology, and logic and his subsequent 
>>>>introduction to "applied" philosophy in the form of knowledge 
>>>>representation.
>>>>
>>>>More details on the session can be found on our wiki at:
>>>>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_11_04
>>>>
>>>>Please point your browser to this wiki page during the session. 
>>>>Shared-screen support (VNC session) will also be available and be 
>>>>started 5 minutes before the call.
>>>>
>>>>Look forward to have you at the session.
>>>>
>>>>-ppy 
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