We had, on Thursday 19-Jun-2008, an inspiring session with invited
speaker, Dr. Mark Greaves (Director, Knowledge Systems from Vulcan,
Inc.) who shared with us the status and some of the consideration
behind their fascinating Halo Project, in his talk entitled:
"Knowledge Representation in Practice: Project Halo and the Semantic
Web." (01)
A big "Thank You" to Dr. Greaves for this wonderful session, and for
sharing your insights with the community. As always, our appreciations
also go out to all who were able to join us at the event; especially
for their contributions to the rich discussion during the last segment
of the session. (02)
Full proceedings of the session are captured on our wiki page, at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_19 (03)
In particular, audio recording of the session, as well as the podcast
of it, is now available -
see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_19#nid1JAB (04)
This contribution from Dr. Mark Greaves and the Project Halo
researchers, is adding another instance in the state-of-the-art in
ontology and semantic technology R & D to the Ontolog body of
knowledge which we are collectively building. Therefore, thank you
again, Mark! (05)
Best regards. =ppy (06)
Peter Yim
Co-convener, ONTOLOG (07)
P.S. we will be featuring this coming Thursday, 19-Jun-2008, our
follow-on discussion session in "Rules." Dr. Leo Obrst (chair) will be
joined by the rest of the panel comprising Dr. Jos de Bruijn (from
Bolzano, Italy and W3C), Mr. Martin O'Connor (Stanford) and Mr. Mike
Dean (BBN, W3C) to brief us and to discuss on: "Rules in Semantic Web
Applications." .
... see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_26
RSVP now, if you haven't already (by emailing <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> off-line.) (08)
Watch our [ontolog-invitation] list for further announcements of
Ontolog events that may be of interest, or browse the listing under
the "News & Announcements" section at our Ontolog WikiHomePage (at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidW ) for our
upcoming events. (09)
An archive of noteworthy past Ontolog events can be found at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidZ
-- (010)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: Ontolog invited speaker session - Dr. Mark Greaves on the
Halo Project - Thu 2008.06.19
To: ontolog-invitation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (011)
Re: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_19 (012)
*REMINDER* (013)
The Ontolog virtual event with invited speaker, Dr. Mark Greaves
(Director, Knowledge Systems of Vulcan, Inc.) is coming up tomorrow -
Thursday, 19-Jun-2008 (starting at 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 17:30
UTC). Dr. Greaves will be giving a talk entitled: "Knowledge
Representation in Practice: Project Halo and the Semantic Web." (014)
As Mark puts it, Vulcan's Project Halo is an ambitious, multiyear
research program to develop a detailed scientific knowledge base that
can answer AP-level questions and provide explanations in a
user-appropriate manner. It is one of the larger AI research programs
in the US today. Halo's current focus is building AI tools that allow
graduate students in chemistry, biology, and physics to author
scientific knowledge adequate to answer sophisticated natural-language
questions without relying on trained knowledge engineers. Halo
researchers have been working to link Semantic Web technology with the
other knowledge representations in the system. This talk will lay out
Halo's technologies and results to date, and describe the technical
and UI issues we have faced in getting users to author scientific
conceptual knowledge. (015)
*RSVP* by e-mailing the sender <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> off-line (if you
aren't already on the [ontolog-invitation] list, kindly include your
name, affiliation and job title as well) if you are planning to attend
and haven't already responded. (016)
We look forward to having you at the session. Please refer to the
agenda and call-in details on the session page, whose link appears at
the top of this message. Feel free to invite your friends to this
fascinating talk too! (017)
Regards. =ppy (018)
Peter P. Yim
Co-convener, ONTOLOG
-- (019)
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
[updated] (020)
> ****************** Headlines *********************** (021)
> We have lined up four exciting events for the month of June 2008, and
> take pleasure in inviting you to join us: (022)
> *Thu 05 Jun 2008* - Professor William McCarthy (Michigan State
> University) will be giving a talk on "Ontologically-Driven Standards
> Development for Business Process Systems." ... *RSVP now*! (023)
> *Thu 12 Jun 2008* - Dr. Christopher Welty (IBM Research), chair of
> the W3C RIF Working Group, will present on the next in semantic web
> standards - "Rules Interchange Format (RIF)." (024)
> *Thu 19 Jun 2008* - Dr. Mark Greaves (Vulcan) will be talking
> about the intriguing Halo project, as they emerge from stealth
> mode after a recent comprehensive evaluation of their Phase-II
> results. (025)
> *Thu 26 Jun 2008* - we will be having a panel session on "Rules in
> Semantic Web Applications." Our panelists will include (chair) Dr. Leo
> Obrst (MITRE), Dr. Jos de Bruijn (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano,
> Italy), Mr. Martin O'Connor (Stanford) & Mr. Mike Dean (BBN) (026)
> *Register your attendance* by emailing <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> off-line.
> Please specify the date of name of the session(s) you are registering
> for. (027)
> ******************** Details ************************ (028)
> These online events, like all Ontolog virtual events, are open and free
> of charge. Anyone who is interested, or (better still) who may have
> something to contribute, is welcome. Please refer to event details
> on the session page, to which the hyperlink is given below, where you
> will find session agenda, conference call dial-in and other pertinent
> information. Feel free to pass this invitation along to colleagues who
> may also find these sessions to be of interest.
- Show quoted text - (029)
> As part of the invited speaker series (which started in May-2003), we
> are proud to continue to present some of the best work, from around
> the world, that is relevant to the community. You are cordially
> invited to join us at the four upcoming sessions this month: (030)
> *Thu 05 Jun 2008* - Professor William McCarthy (Michigan State
> University) will be giving a talk on "Ontologically-Driven Standards
> Development for Business Process Systems." Professor McCarthy will
> discuss the challenges for researchers and developers trying to build
> standards for business process interoperability and share his insights
> gained through the experience in creating the REA ontology (originally
> posed as an accounting domain theory) and its realization in one final
> international standard (the Open-edi Business Transaction Model
> [ISO/IEC 15944-4]) and in one ongoing standards development project
> (the REA Specialization Module for the UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology
> [UMM]) ... Please refer to details on the session page at:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_05 (031)
> *Thu 12 Jun 2008* - Dr. Christopher Welty (IBM Research), chair of
> the W3C RIF Working Group, will present on the next in semantic web
> standards - "Rules Interchange Format (RIF)." After working for the
> last 2.5 years, the W3C RIF WG has finally settled on a "Basic Logic
> Dialect" (RIF-BLD) as a core rules language for logic-based rule
> systems (e.g. FOL, stable-model LP, well founded LP, etc.). In this
> talk Dr. Welty will review RIF-BLD, its syntax and semantics, and talk
> about future plans. ... Please refer to details on the session page
> at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_12 (032)
> *Thu 19 Jun 2008* - since Phase-I, the Halo project has long been
> considered one of the biggest challenges put in front of semantic
> technology and AI researchers. Invited speaker Dr. Mark Greaves
> Director, Knowledge Systems at Vulcan, Inc.) will be talking about this
> ambitious, multiyear research program to develop a detailed scientific
> knowledge base that can answer AP-level questions and provide
> explanations in a user-appropriate manner; describing how Halo
> researchers have been working to link Semantic Web technology
> with the other knowledge representations in the system.
> ... Please refer to details on the session
> page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_19 (033)
> *Thu 26 Jun 2008* - this popularly requested panel session (promised
> since Oct. 2007) on "Rules in Semantic Web Applications" is finally
> materializing. On the panel will be (chair) Dr. Leo Obrst (MITRE), Dr.
> Jos de Bruijn (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Mr. Martin
> O'Connor (Stanford) & Mr. Mike Dean (BBN). ... Please refer to details
> (closer to the time) on the session page at:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_06_26
> (034)
> *RSVP* by emailing Peter Yim at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline so that
> we can prepare enough resources to support everyone. State clearly the
> date of the session you are registering for.
> (035)
> The sessions will be recorded. Before participating, please make sure
> you are cognizant of our IPR policy (ref:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32).
> (036)
> Regards. =ppy
>
> Peter Yim
> Co-convener, Ontolog
> -- (037)
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