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S U M M A R Y


DIARY: May 9, 1996 01:54 PM Thursday; Rod Welch

Received letter from Dave at Intel re meeting to demo SDS for study.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Andy Grove Quote for Asilomar
3...Demonstrate SDS to Intel Re Study by Intel
4...Automated Management
5...Automated Notebook
6...Paperless Office, Anytime, Anywhere Access
.....Grove Says Applications Come from Unexpected Sources
7...Data and Information, Knowledge and Wisdom
......Intellectual Bridges to a Broader Vision
8...Strategies


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CONTACTS 
0201 - Intel Corporation                                                                                                                                                  O-00000607 0201
020101 - Mr. David S. Vannier; Director of Mobile Architecture
020102 - Mobile & Handheld Products Group
0202 - Intel Corporation                                                                                                                                                  O-00000607 0202
020201 - Ms. Marcy Puhnaty; Manager of Mobile Promotions
020202 - Mobile & Handheld Products Group

SUBJECTS
PMI Event Program, Planning                                                      INTEL     Dave                        960401 960416                                                                                                                                                      00000607  0
Intel, internal
Intel, SDS Study
Demonstrations
Anytime Anywhere All Documents Analysis
Intel Picutres to Improve Management Not Communication Metrics

1208 -
1208 -    ..
1209 - Summary/Objective
1210 -
121001 - Follow up ref SDS 46 0000, ref SDS 45 0000.
121002 -
121003 - Got an email from David indicating he is working on my three
121004 - objectives.  Submitted response, ref DIT 1 line 30, clarifying ideas
121005 - for technology to support leadership, and requesting that those who
121006 - attend the SDS demo for Intel read the NWO paper.  Sent copy to Bill
121007 - DeHart and to Morris because of their interest in Asilomar.
121008 -
121009 -     [See follow up at ref SDS 48 line 112, and later at ref SDS 49
121010 -     line 144.]
121011 -
121013 -  ..
1211 -
1212 -
1213 - Progress
1214 -
121401 - Received ref DRT 1 5555 from David responding to my letter on 960507,
121402 - ref DIP 3 8888, confirming our discussion on Tuesday, 960507.
121403 - ref SDS 45 0001
121404 -
121405 -     It appears that the message I sent him was received with adequate
121406 -     format, since it is included in his message and looks like the way
121407 -     I prepared it.  The second thing is that his message is not well
121408 -     formatted, so possibly formatting snafus are an industry standard.
121409 -
121411 -  ..
121412 - Andy Grove Quote for Asilomar
121413 -
121414 - David is working on the quote from Andy, ref DRT 1 5555, per my
121415 - request at ref SDS 45 5849, confirmed at ref DIP 3 8843.
121416 -
121417 -     My response ref DIT 1 0032, suggests an edit to remove the
121418 -     reference to Welch, and explains the purpose of the reference was
121419 -     to bring to Andy's attention the NWO paper, per ref DIT 1 9943,
121420 -     and original analysis at ref SDS 35 4572.  We will check on
121421 -     progress at the meeting with Marcy on 960517.
121422 -
121423 -        [On 960524 follow up ref SDS 50 0904.]
121424 -
121425 -
121427 -  ..
121428 - Demonstrate SDS to Intel Re Study by Intel
121429 -
121430 - David is arranging to give me an hour for a demo to the "right people"
121431 - per ref DRT 1 line 31, to consider the idea at ref SDS 45 line 182 and
121432 - ref SDS 45 line 210.
121433 -
121434 -       [On 960523 Dave advised he could not find interest at Intel in
121435 -       Communication Metrics. ref SDS 49 4933]
121436 -
121437 -
121439 -  ..
121440 - Automated Management
121441 - Automated Notebook
121442 - Paperless Office, Anytime, Anywhere Access
121443 -
121444 - David describes at ref DRT 1 8444, the issues "we both" have in
121445 - mind as:
121446 -
121447 -        1.  too much data, too little information, and
121448 -        2.  a lack of access to the data anytime anywhere.
121450 -  ..
121451 - He says Intel's mobile architecture is solving issue #2, and Intel is
121452 - taking a different path to solve issue #1, per our discussion on
121453 - 960507 where Dave explained Intel plans to use pictures for improving
121454 - management. ref SDS 45 1111, ref SDS 45 1112 and on the advantage of
121455 - linking summary to detail, ref SDS 45 1114, confirmed in my letter at
121456 - ref DIP 3 G67L
121458 -  ..
121459 - David seems to equate computer chip performance with information
121460 - processing power, per the article in Forbes ASAP reviewed on 960304,
121461 - ref SDS 16 6623.
121462 -
121463 -     [On 960510 discussed with Morris distinction between data and
121464 -     information, ref SDS 47 5672.]
121466 -      ..
121467 -     [On 960523 received letter from Dave. ref SDS 49 0001
121469 -      ..
121470 -     [On 960626 possible source of phrase "...anytime anywhere",
121471 -     ref SDS 51 4444.]
121473 -      ..
121474 -     [On 971021 developed idea to proivde Anytime, Anywhere
121475 -     Intelligence, ref SDS 53 3636.]
121477 -      ..
121478 -     [On 971206 completed SDS Internet conversion tools to enhance
121479 -     Anytime, Anywhere objectives. ref SDS 55 4862]
121481 -      ..
121482 -     [On 980226 IBM announced plans to market "business intelligence,"
121483 -     ref SDS 57 1247]
121485 -      ..
121486 -     [On 980307 notified Dave that Communication Metrics delivers
121487 -     Anytime,Anywhere Intelligence. ref SDS 58 3548]
121489 -      ..
121490 -     [On 990422 Dave indicates SDS on the Internet is effective; asks
121491 -     where to take it from here. ref SDS 59 4590]
121493 -      ..
121494 -     [On 990907 Dave seems to confirm that Com Metrics on the Internet
121495 -     accomplishes Welch claims of improving management. ref SDS 60 0149
121497 -  ..
121498 - Dave does not, however, mention, nor allude, to the potential for
121499 - computer processing power to integrate time and information
121500 - management, as a new and more powerful application, which he cited as
121501 - a challenge at Intel in our 950927 meeting, ref SDS 8 6021. Similarly,
121502 - it is unclear if David intends to convey that Intel's work will result
121503 - in an automated notebook that combines his calendar and information to
121504 - support a "paperless office" per his Byte interview, ref SDS 8 8943.
121505 - David does not mention in his letter the consideration Intel has given
121506 - to integrating text and graphics which we discussed at ref SDS 45
121507 - 1112.
121508 -
121509 -     See analysis on 960325 of Landauer's information retrieval ideas,
121510 -     ref SDS 25 3339, and his book "The Trouble with Computers"
121511 -     reviewed on 950710, ref SDS 5 0003.
121513 -  ..
121514 - I asked him to consider that his two points above need to be combined
121515 - or integrated with SDS to provide a more complete vision of effective
121516 - technology for leadership ref DIT 1 line 109:
121517 -
121518 -        3. analysis to measure understanding, i.e., a "metric."
121519 -        4. traceability to maintain shared meaning over time.
121520 -
121521 -     ...under the reasoning in his 1991 Byte interview, ref SDS 8 8943,
121522 -     discussed at our meeting on 950927, ref SDS 8 9830; the concern he
121523 -     raised about executives not having enough time to consider
121524 -     content, ref SDS 12 8409, per discussion with Marcy on 960315, see
121525 -     ref SDS 19 8808, and meeting with Marcy on 960326 discussing
121526 -     linking summary to details, ref SDS 27 0550, per prior meeting
121527 -     with Marcy on 960315. ref SDS 19 9924
121528 -
121530 -      ..
121531 -     Grove Says Applications Come from Unexpected Sources
121532 -
121533 -     Grove was interivewed for an article in the 960226 issue of Forbes
121534 -     ASAP and said email and desktop videoconferencing were unexpected
121535 -     technologies for the PC, ref SDS 16 1005.  This supports the idea
121536 -     that future innovations will come from unexpected sources, so
121537 -     Intel needs to be investigating on a wide range.
121539 -      ..
121540 -     Right now it appears that David perceives Intel's efforts to use
121541 -     the Internet and graphics as conflicting with SDS capability to
121542 -     manage time and information.  These are actually complimentatry
121543 -     uses, per ref SDS 45 1111, ref SDS 45 1114.
121544 -
121545 -
121546 -
121547 -
121548 -
121549 -
121550 -
1216 -

SUBJECTS
Culture Shock, Communication Metrics
Wisdom v. Common Sense
Cultural Resistance
Conflict with Existing Methods
Data and Information Converted into
Data/Information Converted into Knowledge
Strategies, Analysis Converts Information into
Bridge from Known to New Work Methods
Text & Graphics (Pictures), Integrate

2611 -
261201 -  ..
261202 - Data and Information, Knowledge and Wisdom
261203 -
261204 - David distinguishes "data" from "information" at ref DRT 1 8444; so I
261205 - cited in a response qualitative differences between information and
261206 - knowledge using the term "analysis" as the process of applying
261207 - "metrics,"
261208 -
261209 -    1.  Leadership requires analysis that connects information,
261210 -        received over time, so it comprises a larger mosaic of
261211 -        understandings about correlations and implications.  This
261212 -        mosaic is called "knowledge," as qualitatively distinct from
261213 -        information. ref DIT 1 0033
261215 -         ..
261216 -        Information received over time is called a chronology, as
261217 -        developed in keeping a diary. ref DIT 1 E64H
261219 -         ..
261220 -        Information that comes too fast, as on the Information Highway,
261221 -        prevents the mind from maintaining chronology that is vital to
261222 -        the context of information in making the conversion to
261223 -        knowledge. ref DIT 1 T64L
261225 -         ..
261226 -        The Schedule Diary System (SDS) accomplishes the integration of
261227 -        time and information that permits analysis needed for decision
261228 -        support to be performed quickly, thoroughly and accurately.
261229 -        ref DIT 1 V65G
261231 -         ..
261232 -    2.  When events move quickly, the mind commingles events and
261233 -        induces correlations that are incorrect, called "false
261234 -        knowledge."  People begin forgetting and miss-remembering very
261235 -        soon after a meeting, call or sending written text.  We feel
261236 -        very confident, but are wrong about what we "know."  This gives
261237 -        rise to the need for a "metric" to measure understanding, to
261238 -        capture accuracy and to retrieve it quickly.  In ISO language,
261239 -        this is called traceability.  SDS provides this audit trail of
261240 -        understandings, so that people can maintain shared meaning over
261241 -        time. ref DIT 1 6F5L
261243 -  ..
261244 - The perspective of "data" seems derived from "data base" programs that
261245 - produce facts and figures, but no context, which is provided by the
261246 - language that connects data to create "information," that impacts
261247 - objectives, requirements and commitments (needs, desires, basic values
261248 - from human biology), which the mind remembers by creating a "story,"
261249 - discussed previously with Morris on 960227, ref SDS 14 0022, and
261250 - considered on 960409 in reviewing the article in Time on
261251 - "consciousness" ref SDS 31 5001 and ref SDS 31 7211.
261252 -
261253 -        [On 960510 discussed thoery of cognition with Morris, and
261254 -        developed a structure of consciousness. ref SDS 47 2222]
261256 -         ..
261257 -        [On 970627 applied structure of consciousness for meeting with
261258 -        Intel on Asilimar. ref SDS 52 4833]
261260 -         ..
261261 -        [On 000517 explained difference between data, information and
261262 -        knowledge during a meeting at Intel. ref SDS 61 0785 and in
261263 -        particular at ref SDS 61 3976
261264 -      ..
261265 -      The perspective from the information technology (IT)
261266 -      industry that "data" is the key ingredient reflects a culture
261267 -      that deals with things computers can directly manipulate.
261269 -       ..
261270 -      Intellectual Bridges to a Broader Vision
261271 -
261272 -      Morris' request on 960227 for a definition of "knowledge" see
261273 -      ref SDS 14 0022, and Dave's letter today, suggest that this term
261274 -      is not common in IT, and so presents a cultural barriar and/or
261275 -      challenge.  Marketing needs to provide intellectual bridges from
261276 -      what people "know" to a broader vision, discussed with Hank Hatch
261277 -      on 960410. ref SDS 32 9033  The management perspective deals with
261278 -      "data" almost solely through language, as "information," and
261279 -      seeks to role it up into broader meaning with the result that
261280 -      "knowledge" is a higer level of detail than information, from the
261281 -      tradition in religion, the law, "intelligence," and case studies,
261282 -      ref SDS 7 8301 and ref SDS 7 4499.  My management background
261283 -      caused me to look for ways to apply automation to create
261284 -      knowledge.  Doing reports on "knowledge" results in broader
261285 -      connections or patterns called "wisdom," under J.C. Penny's
261286 -      definition that experience over time, yields broader
261287 -      implications, i.e. "vision." ref SDS 3 9933
261288 -
261289 -          [On 010730 Stuart Harrow with DCMA asked about intellectual
261290 -          bridges to help people discover advantages of SDS.
261291 -          ref SDS 62 LC5O
261292 -
261294 -  ..
261295 - Strategies
261296 -
261297 - Part of my effort must be directed at broadening the horizon of folks
261298 - in IT to grasp the methods and benefits of applying technology to grow
261299 - knowledge, common sense and wisdom.
261300 -
261301 - Communication Metrics defines the distinction between "information"
261302 - and "knowledge" in the way that General Hatch, now VP at Fluor Daniel,
261303 - defines the need for connecting information from random sources to
261304 - create "military intelligence" through analysis, ref SDS 11 2036.
261305 -
261306 - "Intelligence" requires fast access to information for analysis, an
261307 - organizing methodology and technology to summarize details for
261308 - decision support with connections to relevant context and authority,
261309 - along with action items linked to original sources.
261310 - ..
261311 - SDS supports this "intelligence," as seen in this record.
261312 -
261313 -     [On 971104 project to deliver
261314 -
261315 -                    "Anytime, Anywhere Intelligence"
261316 -
261317 -      via Internet. ref SDS 54 1459]
261319 -  ..
261320 - David indicates Intel expects to produce useful business intelligence
261321 - on the Internet or by other means. However, those means are not yet
261322 - available.  People are trying to think through the design and
261323 - components of such a system, but have not done so. SDS, which David
261324 - recognizes as pertaining to text, supports the analysis function,
261325 - where the human mind describes to itself the meaning of what it sees,
261326 - hears, feels, wants, and correlates with other objects, such as a
261327 - picture.
261328 - ..
261329 - Welch proposes that whatever anyone develops to support a
261330 - graphical interface, it will require the SDS design for text analysis,
261331 - organization and integration with time and external sources.
261332 -
261333 -
261334 -
261335 -
2614 -

SUBJECTS
Hand Written Notes, Improve
Email Degrades Writing, Understanding

2804 -
2805 -   ..
280501 - Follow up work at ref SDS 30 line 190.
280502 -
280503 - Dave's email contains the kind of small errors that reflect the
280504 - degradation of writing typical of email, ref DRT 1 line 25, because
280505 - there is not enough time to do the checking called for in the article
280506 - on the need for accuracy, ref SDS 30 3332.
280508 -  ..
280509 - The example at Varian is at ref SDS 36 0450.
280510 -
280511 -    [On 980214 another example of email errors in writing. ref SDS 56
280512 -    0900 and analysis. ref SDS 56 0957]
280513 -
280514 -
280515 -
280516 -
2806 -
Distribution. . . . See "CONTACTS"