Bill, (01)
I do not know whether you saw my reply to Chris. One of the main
purposes of the summit is to bring upper ontologies into practical
applications, educating a broad audience about the nature of upper
ontologies and their usefulness. Practical applications means in
large measure commercial. (02)
Please take a look at the agenda. Mills Davis and Doug Lenat team up
for 45 minutes to explain the importance of semantic technologies in
general and upper ontologies in particular. 30 minutes are devoted
to the communique - technical issues to be resolved cast in generally
understandable language, and 1 hr 45 min. to presentations of the
upper ontology custodians about their systems and applications of
these systems. (03)
This all follows technical sessions on Tuesday and, with an eye to
practice, W morning. (04)
I think there is balance, but just focusing on a small piece may
obscure that balance. (05)
DS (06)
At 3/12/2006 11:54 PM, you 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
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>>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
>>Upper Ontology Summit convention <uos-convene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>cc
>>
>>Subject
>>Re: [uos-convene] Backgrounder for Mills's comments
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Mills,
>>
>>Thanks for sending us the URL of the slides to your talk:
>>
>>http://www.project10x.com/downloads/MDdownloads/MDprezo/
>>SemanticWaveKeynote.pdf
>>
>>
>>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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