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
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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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