CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
OHS/DKR Meeting at SRI 000622
DKR Architecture, Jack Park, 000623
DKR Needs Architecture, 000426, Jack Park
3-layer Architecture DKR, Jack Park, 000623

0906 -
0906 -    ..
0907 - Summary/Objective
0908 -
090801 - Follow up ref SDS 40 0000, ref SDS 38 0000.
090802 -
090803 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Jack Park notifying the project team that
090804 - Joe Williams has put a picture of the diagram Jack developed to
090805 - illustrate the 3-layer architecture he explained on 000623,
090806 - ref SDS 40 EK3W, based on the diagram he prepared to assist Professor
090807 - Mary Keeler in her presentation on "knowledge" at SRI on 000518.
090808 - ref SDS 23 8439
090809 -
090810 -     [On 000711 SRI submitted pre-proposal for 3 year project to
090811 -     devleop OHS. ref SDS 47 0001
090813 -      ..
090814 -     [On 001130 Jack submits analysis of SDS showing features for
090815 -     accomplishing a 3-layered architecture for KM. ref SDS 51 5HW3
090817 -  ..
090818 - Jack has been using this diagram for subsequent meetings, so this
090819 - incorporates it into the project record, using Joe's web site.
090821 -  ..
090822 - Not sure why this is not posted to Wiki.
090824 -  ..
090825 - Put a copy on the web at...
090826 -
090827 -
090828 -             http://www.welchco.com/pic/jpark/topicmaps.gif
090829 -
090831 -  ..
090832 - Sponsor agency...
090833 -
090834 -                        Vertical Net
090835 -
090837 -  ..
090838 - 3-layered Architecture for DKR
090839 -
090840 - Follow up ref SDS 40 EK3W
090841 -
090842 - The diagram has the title....
090844 -                       ..
090845 -                      Catagories Diagram
090846 -
090847 -
090848 -       Topic Maps                              Probability
090849 -
090850 -
090851 -            Seem to remember Mary explaining this top livel of
090852 -            "probability" as logical processing, like gIBIS, if, then,
090853 -            or, and , else.
090855 -             ..
090856 -            On 000623 Jack proposed an "engine" that assigns subjects
090857 -            automatically. ref SDS 40 2915
090859 -        ..
090860 -       Knowledge Structures                    Actuality
090861 -
090862 -
090863 -            This is the Ontology that Mary called a "Lens" during the
090864 -            meeting on 000518. ref SDS 23 8439
090865 -
090866 -            On 000405 Paul Fernhout explained challenges for creating
090867 -            technology that produces useful "knowledge structures."
090868 -            ref SDS 15 5977
090869 -
090870 -               [On 001025 Jack and Paul reviewed this matter again.
090871 -               ref SDS 50 KY5K
090872 -
090873 -
090875 -  ..
090876 -       Documents                               Possiblity
090877 -
090878 -
090879 -            This is the blur of daily activity, which people generally
090880 -            think is captured in traditional "documents".  Jack has
090881 -            begun referring to this as "Knowledge Space," for example
090882 -            in the letter to Eric Armstrong on 000503. ref SDS 18 6138
090883 -
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SUBJECTS
Gelernter Architecture Time
Time Organizing Criteria for Knowledge, Gelernter, Jack Park, 000710
Time Management, Scheduling, Eugene, 000504
Time Information Contacts, Integrate
Time Management Schedule
Chronology Sequence Causation Defines Knowledge
Chronology Cause Effect Intelligence
Time Chronology Diary Journal Organize Information
Understanding Cause Effect Time Chronology Organize Information
Chronology Experience Causation Case Studies
Information Management Time Organize Chronology Intelligence
Causation Chronology History Experience
Lifestreams, 000331
Gelernter, Time Primary Organizing Criteria, 000710
Time Organizes Information Complexity Context Faster Better Cheaper
Time Manages Complexity Remembering Improved by SDS Context Managemen
Gelernter, Chronology Sequence Causation Defines Knowledge
Streams of Time
Lifestream Uses Time as Organizing Criteria Developed by David Gerler

2921 -
292201 -  ..
292202 - Time Organizing Criteria Proposed by Gelernter
292203 -
292204 - Follow up ref SDS 16 0784, ref SDS 14 0748.
292205 -
292206 - Received ref DRT 2 0001 from Jack Park which submits an article by
292207 - David Gelernter, and recommends review by the DKR team of a new
292208 - article by David Gelernter, the director of a project under the
292209 - name Lifestreams.
292211 -  ..
292212 - Jack does not say what is important to the DKR project that is set out
292213 - in the article on Gelernter.  This conflicts with project objectives
292214 - to enhance collaboration, set out in Jack's architecture explained on
292215 - 000623. ref SDS 40 4752  Earlier on 000505, Eric Armstrong submitted
292216 - requirements for a CDS that sets collaboration as an objective.
292217 - ref SDS 19 5124 and further ref SDS 19 4392  On 000120 Doug's
292218 - Colloquium identified collaboration as a big goal for the DKR,
292219 - ref SDS 7 1640, based on review of Doug's paper on 991222. ref SDS 6
292220 - 0784
292221 -
292222 -     [On 000710 sent letter to Morris and Bill, ref SDS 45 0001,
292223 -     following up telecon on 000709 on same issue. ref SDS 44 0004
292225 -  ..
292226 - During the meeting at SRI on 000518, there was discussion that
292227 - collaboration requires more than sending an email and setting out a
292228 - subject that was determined through a collaborative evolutionary
292229 - epistomology. ref SDS 23 0017
292231 -      ..
292232 -     [...another DKR team contributor sent a letter worrying that
292233 -     Gelernter says the mouse is not a core component of KM, and that
292234 -     Gelernter does not attribute Doug Engelbart with invention of the
292235 -     mouse. ref SDS 46 0001
292237 -      ..
292238 -     [On 000711 letter to Jack notes that Gelernter's explanation of
292239 -     time is important to Knowledge Management. ref SDS 46 9396
292241 -      ..
292242 -     [On 031215 Gary Johnson provided Gelertner's explanation of
292243 -     Lifestreams, ref SDS 52 0001, and Freeman's original phd thesis
292244 -     that led software development. ref SDS 52 1J41
292246 -      ..
292247 -     [On 070126 Freeman, author of Lifestreams phd paper,
292248 -     explains subsequent consideration of using powerful new
292249 -     search tools based on "google" design to help find things
292250 -     in data structures for common storage based on time,
292251 -     chronology, diary. ref SDS 53 167G
292253 -  ..
292254 - Earlier on 000331 Jack submitted an article by Gelertner to the SRI
292255 - team working on Doug Engelbart's OHS/DKR project.  Gelertner's article
292256 - explained his and Freeman's ideas for Lifestreams. ref SDS 14 0748  A
292257 - month later, Jack wrote to the DKR team saying that Gelernter's work
292258 - supports Welch methodology for Knowledge Management. ref SDS 16 0784
292260 -  ..
292261 - Gelertner's paper on the Internet at...
292262 -
292263 -       http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gelernter/gelernter_p1.html
292265 -  ..
292266 - There is no date, which directly conflicts with Gelernter's article;
292267 - however, a lot of rumaging around seems to indicate the article is
292268 - published in a German newspaper.  There is a reference on the "Home"
292269 - page to an article in the New York Times dated 000619 that cites
292270 - Gelernter's article, as having been published a week earlier in a
292271 - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; but, that does not really establish
292272 - our location in Knowledge Space.  Chances are that in a short time,
292273 - the following address will be gone...
292275 -                     ..
292276 -                    http://www.edge.org/
292278 -  ..
292279 - Gelernter offers little that directly sets out a useful idea for
292280 - knowledge management, except on page 4 in para 34...
292281 -
292282 -
292283 -       http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gelernter/gelernter_p4.html
292285 -  ..
292286 - ...Gelernter says under a heading....
292287 -
292288 -
292289 -                      Streams of Time
292291 -     ..
292292 -    34. In the beginning, computers dealt mainly in numbers and words.
292293 -    Today they deal mainly with pictures. In a new period now emerging,
292294 -    they will deal mainly with tangible time - time made visible and
292295 -    concrete. Chronologies and timelines tend to be awkward in the
292296 -    off-computer world of paper, but they are natural online.
292298 -  ..
292299 - This is a good idea, discussed yesterday with Morris and Bill.
292300 - ref SDS 44 0004
292302 -  ..
292303 - On 000331 Gelertner's ideas on time and KM were reviewed. ref SDS 14
292304 - 5946
292306 -          ..
292307 -         [On 000907 Jack cited Welch as standard for Knowledge
292308 -         Management because SDS uses time for organizing information.
292309 -         ref SDS 48 0001
292311 -          ..
292312 -         [On 001013 example of critical impact time has on knowledge
292313 -         management. ref SDS 49 0001
292315 -          ..
292316 -         [On 070126 Freeman, author of Lifestreams phd paper,
292317 -         explains subsequent consideration of using powerful new
292318 -         search tools based on "google" design to help find things
292319 -         in data structures for common storage based on time,
292320 -         chronology, diary. ref SDS 53 167G
292322 -         ..
292323 -    35. Computers make alphabetical order obsolete.
292324 -
292325 -         This proposition needs support.  We need a means to create or
292326 -         otherwise recognize order beyond chronology.
292328 -     ..
292329 -    36. File cabinets and human minds are information-storage systems.
292330 -    We could model computerized information-storage on the mind instead
292331 -    of the file cabinet if we wanted to.
292333 -     ..
292334 -    37. Elements stored in a mind do not have names and are not
292335 -    organized into folders; are retrieved not by name or folder but by
292336 -    contents. (Hear a voice, think of a face: you've retrieved a memory
292337 -    that contains the voice as one component.) You can see everything
292338 -    in your memory from the standpoint of past, present and future.
292339 -
292340 -         This supports POIMS technology. ref OF 1 7222
292342 -     ..
292343 -    Using a file cabinet, you classify information when you put it in;
292344 -    minds classify information when it is taken out. (Yesterday
292345 -    afternoon at four you stood with Natasha on Fifth Avenue in the
292346 -    rain - as you might recall when you are thinking about "Fifth
292347 -    Avenue," "rain," "Natasha" or many other things. But you attached
292348 -    no such labels to the memory when you acquired it. The
292349 -    classification happened retrospectively.)
292351 -         ..
292352 -    38. A "lifestream" organizes information not as a file cabinet does
292353 -    but roughly as a mind does.
292355 -     ..
292356 -    39. A lifestream is a sequence of all kinds of documents - all the
292357 -    electronic documents, digital photos, applications, Web bookmarks,
292358 -    rolodex cards, email messages and every other digital information
292359 -    chunk in your life - arranged from oldest to youngest, constantly
292360 -    growing as new documents arrive, easy to browse and search, with a
292361 -    past, present and future, appearing on your screen as a receding
292362 -    parade of index cards. Documents have no names and there are no
292363 -    directories; you retrieve elements by content: "Fifth Avenue"
292364 -    yields a sub-stream of every document that mentions Fifth Avenue.
292365 -
292366 -         There needs to be a filting system for getting directly to
292367 -         information about "Fifth Avenue" that is relevant to current
292368 -         objectives.
292370 -          ..
292371 -         By eliminating "names," Gelernter seems to overlook a key
292372 -         driving force of human life -- subjects, i.e., objectives,
292373 -         needs, drives, desires that lead to sustaining life.
292375 -          ..
292376 -         On 990303 George Miller proposed that humans recode everything
292377 -         for retrieval. ref SDS 5 2838
292379 -     ..
292380 -    40. A stream flows because time flows, and the stream is a concrete
292381 -    representation of time. The "now" line divides past from future. If
292382 -    you have a meeting at 10AM tomorow, you put a reminder document in
292383 -    the future of your stream, at 10AM tomorrow. It flows steadily
292384 -    towards now. When now equals 10AM tomorrow, the reminder leaps over
292385 -    the now line and flows into the past. When you look at the future
292386 -    of your stream you see your plans and appointments, flowing
292387 -    steadily out of the future into the present, then the past.
292389 -     ..
292390 -    41. You manage a lifestream using two basic controls, put and
292391 -    focus, which correspond roughly to acquiring a new memory and
292392 -    remembering an old one.
292393 -
292394 -    42. To send email, you put a document on someone else's stream. To
292395 -    add a note to your calendar, you put a document in the future of
292396 -    your own stream. To continue work on an old document, put a copy at
292397 -    the head of your stream. Sending email, updating the calendar,
292398 -    opening a document are three instances of the same operation (put a
292399 -    document on a stream).
292401 -     ..
292402 -    43. A substream (for example the "Fifth Avenue" substream) is like
292403 -    a conventional directory - except that it builds itself,
292404 -    automatically; it traps new documents as they arrive; one document
292405 -    can be in many substreams; and a substream has the same structure
292406 -    as the main stream - a past, present and future; steady flow.
292408 -     ..
292409 -    In The Age Of Tangible Time
292411 -     ..
292412 -    44. The point of lifestreams isn't to shift from one software
292413 -    structure to another but to shift the whole premise of computerized
292414 -    information: to stop building glorified file cabinets and start
292415 -    building (simplified, abstract) artificial minds; and to store our
292416 -    electronic lives inside.
292418 -     ..
292419 -    45. A lifestream can replace the desktop and subsume the functions
292420 -    of the file system, email system and calendar system. You can store
292421 -    a movie, TV station, virtual museum, electronic store, course of
292422 -    instruction at any level, electronic auction or an institution's
292423 -    past, present and future (its archives, its current news and its
292424 -    future plans) in a lifestream. Many websites will be organized as
292425 -    lifestreams.
292427 -     ..
292428 -    46. The lifestream (or some other system with the same properties)
292429 -    will become the most important information-organizing structure in
292430 -    computing - because even a rough imitation of the human mind is
292431 -    vastly more powerful than the most sophisticated file cabinet ever
292432 -    conceived.
292434 -     ..
292435 -    47. Lifestreams (in preliminary form) are a successful commercial
292436 -    product today, but my predictions have nothing to do with this
292437 -    product. Ultimately the product may succeed or fail. The idea will
292438 -    succeed.
292439 -
292440 -        This is the argument for proposing an operating system for
292441 -        people and organizations based on time as the primary
292442 -        organizing criteria, discussed with Dave Vannier at Intel on
292443 -        950927. ref SDS 2 8400
292445 -         ..
292446 -        Yesterday, Bill DeHart cited SDS organization as more useful
292447 -        than methods he is using from other vendors. ref SDS 44 0784
292449 -         ..
292450 -        Welch is proposing a composite solution, time and subjects,
292451 -        plus some other paths to find what we want.  The key that
292452 -        people overlook is the difference between finding particular
292453 -        information, and assembling a chronology of related information
292454 -        for pattern recognition.
292455 -
292457 -  ..
292458 - Continuing on page 6, Gelernter says....
292459 -
292460 -
292461 -        The Second Coming Of The Computer
292462 -
292463 -        56. Lifestreams and microcosms are the two most important
292464 -        cyberbody types; they relate to each other as a single musical
292465 -        line relates to a single chord. The stream is a "moment in
292466 -        space," the microcosm a moment in time.
292467 -
292468 -            POIMS technology explains "microcosm" in a broader sense,
292469 -            first, as Gelernter proposes as a means to manage or track
292470 -            specific details, particularly sequence of chronology
292471 -            showing cause and effect; but, also, to organize subjects
292472 -            that give details meaning, per meeting at Intel on 950927.
292473 -            ref SDS 2 5412
292475 -         ..
292476 -        But What Does It All Matter?
292478 -         ..
292479 -        58. If you have plenty of money, the best consequence (so they
292480 -        say) is that you no longer need to think about money. In the
292481 -        future we will have plenty of technology - and the best
292482 -        consequence will be that we will no longer have to think about
292483 -        technology.
292485 -         ..
292486 -        We will return with gratitude and relief to the topics that
292487 -        actually count.
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