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SUBJECTS
SDS Program and Records Submitted to Gary as of 031201

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0503 -    ..
0504 - Summary/Objective
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050501 - Follow up ref SDS 5 0000, ref SDS 3 6C9W.
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050503 - Assembled an SDS program update since last update on 040220,
050504 - ref SDS 5 0001, and transferred to the Interent for Gary to download
050505 - when time permits.
050507 -  ..
050508 - The program has following new features discussed previously...
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050510 -    1.  Enter key problem Gary reported on 040222, ref SDS 6 0001, has
050511 -        been fixed,
050512 -
050513 -    2.  You can set a flag in a contact record to automatically
050514 -        suppress that contact from any publication on the Internet, for
050515 -        stronger confidentiality.  This merely requires entering an "s"
050516 -        in column 9 on line 1 of a contact record.  Details are
050517 -        reported on 040222. ref SDS 7 0001
050519 -         ..
050520 -    3.  Fixed program launch problem.  Requires no attention, but may
050521 -        be interesting, if time permits, on lesson learned showing how
050522 -        little inconsequential details, that often seem unrelated to
050523 -        anything, cause major problems to everything, reported on
050524 -        040305. ref SDS 8 0001  On 921127 Morris reported cascading
050525 -        effect of little problems, ref SDS 1 0674, cited previously by
050526 -        Aristotle in 400 BC.  Generally, this is a lesson learned on
050527 -        the importance of maintaining alignment, step by step and day
050528 -        to day in light of the fact that critical details otherwise
050529 -        escape attention in the "fog of war," and set into motion
050530 -        devastating dynamics when enabling forces later come into
050531 -        alignment.
050533 -         ..
050534 -    4.  Subject descriptions for Control Fields, conform to accounts in
050535 -        the Subject Index, performed on 040305. ref SDS 9 0001  This
050536 -        addresses the problem Gary reported on 040215. ref SDS 4 0001
050538 -         ..
050539 -        Generally, there is nothing to learn in order to perform the
050540 -        original scope.  The system now works consistently.  Some new
050541 -        features have been added, which seem fairly easy to apply, as
050542 -        reported on 040305. ref SDS 9 Z88N
050544 -         ..
050545 -        The record on 040305 further discusses the application of
050546 -        Moore's Law for understanding productivity gains this past year
050547 -        from improving SDS. ref SDS 9 JT5F  On 040220 Gary was asked
050548 -        for comments on this analysis in relation to opportunities for
050549 -        models and simulations to improve intelligence support under
050550 -        CFISR. ref SDS 5 MA86
050552 -         ..
050553 -    5.  Automatically maintain current Schedule directory 00, requires
050554 -        not user attention, nor action, explained on 040307.
050555 -        ref SDS 10 0001
050557 -         ..
050558 -    6.  Navigation in Knowledge Space moving forward and back in the
050559 -        Subject Index improved with new functions, reported on 040307.
050560 -        ref SDS 11 0001
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050565 - Submitted transmittal letter to Gary....
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050567 -    1.  Subject: SDS Update
050568 -        Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 02:26:06 -0800
050569 -        From: Rod Welch
050570 -        To: "EXT-Johnson, Garold L"
050571 -        CC: "Wetzel, Wayne"
050572 -             "Nord, Jerry"
050574 -         ..
050575 -        BCC: "Wetzel, Wayne"
050577 -         ..
050578 -    2.  Gary,
050580 -         ..
050581 -    3.  Per our telecon yesterday, there is an update on the web in dir
050582 -        09, and explained in the record on 040312. ref SDS 0 QM5O
050584 -         ..
050585 -    4.  As we discussed, the record on 040305 develops ideas and theory
050586 -        on Moore's Law applied through SDS to translate computer power
050587 -        into the power of knowledge that people need to get things
050588 -        done, ref SDS 9 JT5F, cited as well in the record today.
050589 -        ref SDS 0 YI95
050591 -         ..
050592 -        Previously, on 040220 a letter requested comment on how Moore's
050593 -        Law fits the the task of your group on models and simulation
050594 -        for advancing CFISR. ref SDS 5 MA86
050596 -         ..
050597 -        Can engineers and scientists address the opportunity to advance
050598 -        from information to a culture of knowledge by helping to count
050599 -        what counts most, if even with heuristics that simulate the
050600 -        metrics for communication, as discussed with Morris on 950204.
050601 -        ref SDS 2 8A4G
050603 -         ..
050604 -    5.  Of course at the moment, my sense is that time is best invested
050605 -        on grappling with Gil, Cindi, Jackie, et al, to get SDS back in
050606 -        service, so that core questions have meaning in application
050607 -        again, rather than speculation and theory.  Please pass on
050608 -        worrying about models and simulations for productivity growth
050609 -        using SDS for Com Metrics, if that will focus more time on the
050610 -        top priority.  In any case, some day, some how a theory of
050611 -        knowledge must quantify some numbers on meaning drift,
050612 -        accuracy, alignment, error, conflict, crisis, calamity, loss
050613 -        and tragedy.
050615 -         ..
050616 -    6.  Rod
050618 -         ..
050619 -    7.  PS.  by copy letting Wayne you are thinking about how to get
050620 -        him the program for partitioning the disk to support SDS, per
050621 -        your letter on 040307.
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