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Re: [ontolog-admin] Ontolog Invited Speaker - Jim Spohrer - Thu 2005.12.

To: Michael Maximilien <maxim@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jim Spohrer <spohrer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ontolog-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Cristina Payan <cpayan@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:16:36 -0800
Message-id: <af8f58ac0511112116g528b1773v54c9ce9b940c236b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sounds great! Thank you Michael & Jim.    (01)

I'll be making the official announcement of this 12/8/05 talk shortly. I    (02)

Looking forward to the session.  =ppy
--    (03)


On 11/11/05, Michael Maximilien <maxim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I updated the abstract (on the Wiki) with the following text, which I have
> also reviewed briefly with Jim.
>
> ----------------------
> Services sciences, Management and Engineering hopes to bring together
> ongoing work in computer science, operations research, industrial
> engineering, business strategy, management sciences, social and cognitive
> sciences, and legal sciences to develop the skills required in a
> services-led economy.
>
> Services are the application of knowledge and skills for the co-production
> of value for the service recipient.  As such, a fundamental aspect of
> service engagement is the representation of the knowledge that the parties
> involved in the service process use to communicate and collaborate.
> Ontology development is one approach to knowledge codification that allows
> it to be human and machine processable and therefore help and facilitate the
> service enactment.
>
> Paths to service innovations, especially for services deployed over the Web
> (i.e., Web services and software as a service) will increasingly require
> better knowledge representation techniques.  For instance, to automatically
> (or semi-automatically) discover, engage, and enact Web services solutions
> on the intranet as well as the internet as a whole.
>
> SSME's primary objective is to discover means for all types of service
> innovation; therefore, placing ontology and other knowledge representation
> techniques at the center stage of the SSME agenda.
> ----------------------
>
> Let me know if you have any questions or comments.  Take care,
>
>  E. M. (Max) Maximilien, Ph.D.
>  IBM Almaden Research Center
>  San Jose, CA USA
>  maxim@xxxxxxxxxx
>  Homepage: http://maximilien.org    (04)


> "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote on 11/10/2005 06:02:35 PM:
>
>
>  > Dear Jim,
>  >
>  > Thanks to Michael for forwarding detail items (a) through (d)
>  > today regarding your talk. I have already initialized the session
>  > page on our wiki site. Kindly review the content and feel free to
>  > make additions and amendments. Additional information that will
>  > reinforce the content in preparing the audience for your talk
>  > will be greatly appreciated. You can find the page at:
>  >
>  >
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_12_08
>  >
>  > May I thank you once again for agreeing to give a talk to our
>  > community. I shall look forward to the session on Dec. 8.
>  >
>  > Thanks & regards.  =ppy
>  >
>  > Peter Yim
>  > Ontolog, co-convener
>  >
>  > P.S. Michael, ref. our discussion, once we get a next iteration
>  > of the abstract together (feel free to edit it directly onto the
>  > wiki, but let me know after you have done so), I will proceed to
>  > announce the event through the [ontolog-forum] as well as other
>  > collegial channels. Thank you very much for your help in
>  > co-organizing this event.  =ppy
>  > --
>  >
>  >
>  > Peter P. Yim wrote Thu, 03 Nov 2005 00:58:58 -0800:
>  > > 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, December 8, 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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