Peter, (01)
I'm guessing that the dates in the message were not updated, as Doug
Lenat is speaking on November 17th. Thus, you seek the listed
information from Dr. Spohrer before December 1st, not November 8th. (02)
/s/ kwc 2005.11.02 23:00 (03)
At 2005-11-02 19:51, Peter P. Yim wrote:
>Dear Dr. Spohrer,
>
>
>Further to your confirmation to our invitation, I would like to
>thank you, on behalf of the community, for accepting our invitation
>to speak at the Ontolog-Forum on Thursday, November 17, 2005. Please
>feel free to select a relevant topic which you feel is appropriate
>for our membership. I am writing here, to provide further details
>and some administrivia on the event.
>
>This session will be a 1.5 to 2 hour virtual event, scheduled for
>10:30am~12:30pm Pacific Time / 1:30~3:30pm Eastern Time /
>18:30~20:30 UTC. The session will start with about 10~15 minutes for
>self-introduction by participants and for getting everyone settled
>in. Your virtual presentation (of approximately 45~60 minutes) will
>then follow. After which, there will be an open discussion for about
>30~45 minutes. This will be over a phone conference, augmented by
>online presentation material.
>
>Ontolog is an open, international, virtual community that engages in
>the learning, discourse and development of domain ontologies. This
>community is making an effort to advance the adoption and
>application of ontological engineering approaches and semantic
>technologies (see our charter at:
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidB ), and is
>facilitating their move into the mainstream standards. Your sharing
>with us relevant work, experience and insight will be most appreciated.
>
>I shall look forward to receiving the following from you, at your
>convenience (hopefully no later than Nov. 8, 2005):
>
>(a) the title of your talk, and
>
>(b) an abstract of your talk (anywhere from a few sentences to a
>couple of paragraphs will do).
>
>(c) a recent picture of yours (about 150x150 pixels, in png, jpg or
>gif format),
>
>(d) a short biographic sketch of yourself. In addition, if you can
>provide (links to) slightly more extended bio/intro of you and your
>work, that would be even better. It would be fine if you just supply
>the URL's to the material (if something appropriate is already
>available online.) Feel free to update your namesake page on the
>Ontolog wiki too (at:
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?JimSpohrer -- your may need
>to do a "Create Account" or "Login" for the user "JimSpohrer" before
>editing on the wiki (access is at the upper right of wiki page)).
>
>Once I get the above, I will start circulating the information among
>the community (we should be doing that at least a couple of weeks
>before the event), so that people could mark their calendars and
>plan to attend.
>
>Closer to the time (say, by Nov. 30, 2005, although this is not a
>hard deadline), please send me:
>
>(e) your presentation material* (in powerpoint, pdf, sxi, html, png,
>jpg or some common electronic format) so that I can post it online
>for access during the session. (Optionally, you may choose to have
>that posted a week or so in advance of your talk, or the morning of
>your session.)
>
>During the talk, you will be in control of a shared-screen server (a
>VNC server) that will allow you to run your presentation slides, a
>web browser or even other applications (if you do need to run other
>applications, please provide me with more details because we may
>need some prior coordination to make it happen). The display screen
>from the VNC server will be shared by most of the virtual attendees
>during the event.
>
>(f) After I receive your presentation material, we will schedule a
>phone session so that I can walk you through the presentation
>controls and some of the relevant nuances that our virtual
>speaker(s) need to be aware of. We should do this while you are at
>the venue where you plan to be presenting from (e.g. your office,
>your home, ... etc. because each may present different connectivity
>issues we would need to tackle). You are also invited to take a look
>at the hints we have for sessions like this at:
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?VirtualSpeakerSessionTips
>
>For your reference, please feel free to check out the wiki pages of
>similar recent presentations, like the ones given by Steve Ray of
>NIST (see:
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_02_12),
>or the one by Chris Welty on OntoClean (see:
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_11_18).
>They should provide some clue as to the format of our monthly
>invited speaker events. However, do feel free to conduct your
>presentation any way you feel like (let me know, though, if you
>expect it to be quite different, so that I can work on providing the
>support you need.) We will be creating a wiki page for your session
>after we have received the above ((a) thru (d) input from you), at
>which point, you are encouraged to post additional relevant
>resources (papers, links, references, ... etc.) to support your
>presentation.
>
>Additionally, we will be recording our presentation sessions and
>make the archived audio file available online, along with the
>presentation material. May I, on behalf of the Ontolog Forum,
>request your permission to do so. Please refer to our IPR policy at:
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32 that will
>be applicable. I will assume that is acceptable to you unless I hear
>from you otherwise.
>
>Once again, thank you very much for agreeing to speak, and to having
>a dialog with the Ontolog community. I shall look forward to the
>event, and to to your continued contribution to Ontolog in the
>future. Feel free to contact the undersigned if there is any question.
>
>
>Sincerely,
>=PPY
>
>Peter P. Yim
>[ontolog-forum], co-convener
>http://ontolog.cim3.net
>Phone: (650) 578-9998
>
>
>P.S. *Please note that: in preparing your powerpoint (or other
>presentation material), try to avoid using any animation or
>transitions, as they do not work very well over the real-time
>shared-screen service which we employ to allow the audience to be in
>sync with you on your slide presentation. =ppy
>--
>
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