On the request by the audience of our very successful "Service
Sciences" panel discussion (proposed and moderated by Professor
William McCarthy on June 30, 2006), we are most excited to
announce the following event as our December 2005 session of the
Ontolog invited speaker series: (01)
*ANNOUNCEMENT* (02)
We are pleased to announce that Dr. James Spohrer, from IBM's
Almaden Research Center, will be presenting to the community. His
talk is entitled: "*Services Science, Management, and
Engineering* (SSME)" (03)
*Conference call-in details*: (04)
Date: Thursday, Dec. 12, 2005
Start Time: 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 18:30 UTC (World Time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=8&year=2005&hour=10&min=30&sec=0&p1=224)
Session Duration: 1.5 ~ 2 Hours
Dial-in Number: +1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
Participant Access Code: "686564#"
VNC shared-screen support available (05)
Topic: *Services Science, Management, and Engineering* (SSME) (06)
*Abstract*: (07)
Services sciences, Management and Engineering (SSME) 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. (08)
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. (09)
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. (010)
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. (011)
*About the Speakers*: (012)
*Jim Spohrer* is the Director of Services Research at IBM's
Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, focused on innovations
for IBM Global Services (IGS), a people-intensive,
information-intensive business of over 170,000 professionals
worldwide that accounts for half of IBM's yearly revenues. Human
sciences, On-Demand Innovation Services (ODIS), deep industry
knowledge of future trends, and operations technology are areas
of active exploration. (013)
From 2000-2003, at IBM, he was CTO of IBM's Venture Capital
Relations Group, where he identified technology trends and worked
to establish win-win relationships between IBM and VC-backed
portfolio companies. Previously, Dr. Spohrer directed the IBM
Almaden Research Center's (ARC) Computer Science Foundation
Department, and before that was senior manager and co-strategist
for IBM's User Experience / Human Computer Interaction Research
effort. (014)
From 1989-1998, at Apple, he was a DEST (Distinguished Engineer,
Scientist, and Technologist) and program manager of learning
technology projects in Apple's Advanced Technology Group (ATG).
He lead the effort to create Apple's first on-line learning
community and vision for anytime, anywhere e-learning. From
1978-1982, he developed speech recognition algorithms and
products at Verbex, an Exxon Enterprises company. (015)
Spohrer received a B.S. in physics from MIT in 1978 and a Ph.D.
in Computer Science from Yale University in 1988. In 1989, Jim
lived in Rome, Italy where he was a visiting scholar at the
University of Rome La Sapienza, and lecturer at major
universities across Europe. Jim has published broadly in the
areas of speech recognition, empirical studies of programmers,
artificial intelligence, authoring tools, online learning
communities, open source software, intelligent tutoring systems
and student modeling, new paradigms in using computers,
implications of rapid technical change, as well as the
coevolution of social, business, and technical systems. Jim has
also helped to establish two education research non-profit web
sites: The Educational Object Economy and WorldBoard: Associating
Information with Places. Jim is a frequent advisor to the
National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, and
other groups http://www.merlot.org &
http://www.newmediacenters.org on the implications of rapid
technological change to the future of education. (016)
*Refer to details on the session wiki page at*:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_12_08 (017)
This will be a virtual session over an augmented conference call.
The session is expected to start with 45 min. ~ 1 Hour
presentation followed by an extended discussion between the
participants and the speaker. The entire session will be recorded
and made available as open content under the prevailing Ontolog
IPR policy (see:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32). (018)
I look forward to having you at this open session. Please pass
the announcement along to those who might be interested to join
us too. All are welcomed. *RSVP* by by emailing me at
<peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline. (019)
Regards. =ppy (020)
Peter P. Yim
Co-convener, Ontolog
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