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Re: [uos-convene] Backgrounder for Mills's comments

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From: Christopher Welty <welty@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:01:12 -0500
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Dagobert,    (01)

Thanks for allaying my fears.    (02)

-Chris    (03)

Dr. Christopher A. Welty, Knowledge Structures Group
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Dagobert Soergel <dsoergel@xxxxxxx> 
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Chris,    (08)

In a nutshell    (09)

Tuesday is devoted to a technical interchange chiefly among the 
custodians of upper ontologies but also involving other key 
participants like yourself.  For an overview of issues to be discussed see    (010)

http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/UpperOntologySummit/Joint-Communique-prep-session_20050314/UOS-points_20060314b.doc    (011)


Agenda at 
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/UosConvenerMeeting_2006_03_14    (012)


Wednesday morning is a dialog between upper ontology custodians who 
will present actual or potential cases where the application of an 
upper ontology led to efficiency in system creation and/or better 
system performance in terms of better reasoning or retrieval etc., 
potential adopters, who will also comment on cases of upper ontology 
application from their vantage point as well as on requirements they 
have for upper ontologies, and stakeholders who can make research in 
upper ontologies leading to better application interfaces and better 
interoperability among upper ontologies happen.    (013)

Agenda at 
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/UosApplicationDialogMeeting_2006_03_15    (014)


Finally, Wednesday afternoon is the public Upper Ontology Summit 
which has the objective of presenting to a broader audience the 
usefulness of upper ontologies and the importance of  working towards 
increased interoperability among them.    (015)

Agenda at 
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummitMeeting_2006_03_15    (016)


I hope you will not find this a waste of time.    (017)

DS    (018)



At 3/12/2006 10:44 PM, you 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).
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>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/
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>"John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Mills,
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>Thanks for sending us the URL of the slides to your talk:
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>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.
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>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."
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>Many of the managers panicked at that point, but Gerstner
>did a rather decent job of turning IBM around.
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>Are the presentations next week going to be tailored for PHBs
>or for people who try to understand something?
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>John Sowa
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