I agree with Chris and Bill (01)
At 08:54 PM 3/12/2006, Bill Andersen wrote:
>Thanks, Chris, for your comments.
>
>I have to agree fully that I don't like the commercial direction this
>is taking. I don't see the relevance. I don't see the urgency. And
>I repeat my earlier questions posed before we successfully derailed
>the original Wednesday morning agenda about who wants this, and how
>has it come to play a central role in the planning of a meeting I
>took originally to be a technical meeting of the minds?
>
>I made special arrangements to come back from Wisconsin as early as
>possible on Wednesday so I could at least attend the afternoon
>session. I, too, am wondering whether I'm wasting my time.
>
> .bill
>
>On Mar 12, 2006, at 22:44 , Christopher Welty wrote:
>
>>(Nicola recommended I turn off the filter that was junking email to
>>this
>>list. This is the first message I've seen in a few weeks).
>>
>>So, sorry for the lack of context, but are these slides from a
>>presentation we're going to be seeing at the UOS? I agree with
>>John here.
>> I hoped UOS would be a technical meeting in which people would
>>talk about
>>upper ontologies. Please someone reassure me this meeting won't be a
>>complete waste of time.
>>
>>-Chris
>>
>>Dr. Christopher A. Welty, Knowledge Structures Group
>>IBM Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Dr., Hawthorne, NY 10532
>>Voice: +1 914.784.7055, IBM T/L: 863.7055, Fax: +1 914.784.7455
>>Email: welty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Web: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/w/welty/
>>
>>
>>
>>"John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent by: uos-convene-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>03/12/2006 10:21 PM
>>Please respond to
>>Upper Ontology Summit convention
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>>To
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>>Subject
>>Re: [uos-convene] Backgrounder for Mills's comments
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>>Mills,
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>>Thanks for sending us the URL of the slides to your talk:
>>
>>http://www.project10x.com/downloads/MDdownloads/MDprezo/
>>SemanticWaveKeynote.pdf
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>>
>>But what I find frustrating about such things is that there
>>are pointy-haired bosses who make business decisions based on
>>the amount of eye-candy that gets stuffed into the slides.
>>
>>When Lou Gerstner took over as CEO of IBM in 1993, all the
>>senior managers lined up with their slides ready. But Lou
>>stopped them and said "Just sit down and talk to me."
>>
>>Many of the managers panicked at that point, but Gerstner
>>did a rather decent job of turning IBM around.
>>
>>Are the presentations next week going to be tailored for PHBs
>>or for people who try to understand something?
>>
>>John Sowa
>>
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