Folks, (01)
Right now this is just a request for information, not a formal RFP: (02)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/grand-challenges-request-information (03)
Frank Olken (04)
Pavithra wrote:
> Pat, I am interested! But I am not sure where the funding ( 30M)
> that Dr.Sowa was taking about is coming from? I mean who would fund
> it? ( pardon me, that I am kind of ignorant about that ?)
>
> Is it the same as Grand Challenge? ( Had not heard of that before..)
>
> Grants.gov has information for federal funding for research grants.
> However, one can write a proposal only If there are specific
> requirements for you we are proposing!
>
> ??
> Pavithra
>
>
>
>
> --- On *Mon, 2/8/10, Patrick Cassidy /<pat@xxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Patrick Cassidy <pat@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ontolog-forum] White House "Challenge" call
> To: cmenzel@xxxxxxxx, "'[ontolog-forum] '"
> <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 8:07 PM
>
>
> An article in Information Week briefly describes an initiative
> from the
> White House on innovation. See:
>
>http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/policy/showArticle.jhtml?arti
> cleID=222601151
>
> The article reads in part:
>
> <snip>
> White House Seeks Public Input On Innovation Goals
>
> The White House this week issued a request for public input on
> potential
> game-changing technologies the administration might pursue with
> research and
> development dollars. The quest to identify innovation goals for
> the next
> century is modeled at least in part on President Kennedy's
> commitment to
> send man to the moon in the 1960s.
> More specifically, the White House appears to be looking to set up
> a number
> of "grand challenges" for inventors and scientists to solve over
> coming
> years, which the country could use as "an organizing principle for
> America's
> science, technology and innovation policy" in order to address key
> national
> priorities, spur economic growth, and catalyze interest in the
> sciences.
> </snip>
> ---- --------------------------------
>
> This might be an appropriate opportunity to put together a joint
> submission
> for those who agree that some direct effort should be made to find an
> agreement on a foundation ontology to support semantic
> interoperability.
> Since they are thinking in terms of a “grand challenge” a project
> costing
> in the tens of millions of dollars might be one of the smallest
> suggested.
>
> My suggestion would be to aim for as rapid a solution as possible
> to the
> semantic interoperability problem,. As part of the project I
> would suggest
> a natural-language component that can ease the use of the foundation
> ontology and also, as a demo, converse naturally with a six-year
> old. I
> believe that John Sowa thinks that the latter is a reasonable “grand
> challenge” problem in itself； I think that an NL interface to an
> ontology
> is closely linked to the conversation problem, at least if the NL
> capability
> is supported by an ontology.
>
> Anyone else willing to work on a proposal related to the FO? Are
> there
> alternative “challenge” projects involving ontologies that others
> would
> suggest?
>
> This opportunity to get a sympathetic hearing for a novel project
> may not
> repeat in our lifetimes. The deadline is short, but it does not
> appear
> essential to present a formal proposal at this stage. If anyone
> knows of
> more information about this, let us know.
>
> PatC
>
> Patrick Cassidy
> MICRA, Inc.
> 908-561-3416
> cell: 908-565-4053
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>
>
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