[om-list] Introducing myself again ...

[Thomas L. Packer at home]

Hello Rajeev

    Thank you for your letter.  I will have to read it again to digest this
information.

    So, you will be graduating from the university soon?  Do you have a job
now?  What will you do to earn money after you graduate?

    How much do you envision OM being related to, or a part of, your career?

    Luke Call has been in charge of our domain and web page thus far.  He
will respond to your offer to help with our web site, and will provide the
final approval.  As for my opinion, I believe that it would be a good idea
for you to help us in any way that you want.

    Do you have a web page now that we could look at?

    Have you travelled in the world much?  Where have you lived?  Or where
have you visited?  What is your native language?

ciao,
tomp
a.k.a. Thomas Packer

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----- Original Message -----
From: "MrM0j0r15n Rajeev the kanehbosm" <electrickanehbosm at hotmail.com>
To: <ThomasAndMegan at Middle.Net>
Cc: <om-list at onemodel.org>
Sent: Thursday, 29 August, 2002 03:29
Subject: [om-list] Introducing myself again ...


>
> Hello Mr. Packer,
>
> I am truly sorry for the insufficient introduction i posted earlier.
>
> I am Rajeev Joseph Sebastian. i am an undergrad student of Information
Tech.
> at
> the Centre for Engineering Studies, Cochin Univ. of Science and Tech.,
> Kochi,
> Kerala, India. I am currently in Semester 7(of 8 sems), and i am
researching
> Knowledge
> Management and Applied Epistemology as the basis for my Seminar and two
> Projects for this and the next semester (approx 8-10 months out of which i
> could
> spend atleast 3 hours a day, cept during exams and shows). I am also
> interested in these things as an amateur philosopher, and as a future
> software
> engineer and filmmaker (ie, purely for selfish reasons!).
>
> I have about 4 years of experience developing on the Java platform on the
> Linux
> operating system. Some of the systems (in Java/Linux) i have developed on
my
> own are:
> Bark - a fully compliant multithreaded IRC Server, AcidProx - (not again
;)
> a fully compliant
> multithreaded HTTP/1.1 Proxy Server, LibAssist - a prototype for a
> distributed Library mgmt
> system and some other smaller projects of a systems nature.
>
>
> I am also designing an information system to be implemented. This system
is
> called All College Knowledge System (AXIS). It is a system to encapsulate
> all knowledge within the human and documentary components of this system.
It
> achieves this by providing information technological tools to convert
mental
> and documentary models into Knowledge Objects which encapsulate them, and
> allow queries such as one of you wanted, ie, queries based on
"inheritance"
> or isa qualities of knowledge items. This system was envisioned by me,
since
> I really felt the abscence of an "Encyclopedia" like resource (which the
> Internet is nowhere near no matter how many Googles arrive), to perform
> "instantaneous" research operations. However, i dont have the expertise or
> even knowledge to "abstract away" many of these things such as operations
> suggested in the list (natural language understanding support for search
> systems), which are too far away for my personal skills (im only beginning
> to become confused by Chomsky :). But, i think i have the good fortune of
> finding a group as yourself interested in such developement. So, i humbly
> request your help.
>
> As far as the "knowledge" components of the software system go, these are
> the following projects in mind:
>
> <this is an excerpt from another file (a draft) ... >
> Alchemy - a knowledge system as one advocated by your group (to be
> implemented
> currently by myself):
>
> Alchemy is a tool to automate research based on documentary evidence for
> knowledge (such as paper Assignments, Books, Articles, Films etc etc)
stored
> by various means and organized on the DocBook system as a data mgmt
> component (www.oasis-open.org) Data Objects themselves are to be stored in
> Object-Relational Databases, and filesystems. Alchemy is a server device
> considered to be on the Internet. It runs a Servlet-based backend
connected
> to various databases in a distributed fashion such as in LibAssist above
> (both local and remote). Alchemy is to be developed in 3 phases:
>
> Phase 1 : Analysis of requirements for a basic knowledge system supporting
> word searches complemented by techniques such as relative weight of word
> within single documents, etc.
> Also, a sophisticated classification and naming subsystem to identify
> varieties and instances of knowledge items is to be "analysed". At first,
> this subsystem must encapsulate
> the requirements above, but it must be extensible. To do so, we may start
> from the comprehensive documentation language DocBook. Additionally,
models
> (UML diagrams, Eletronic Circuitboard diagrams, etc) used in engineering
and
> applied sciences are also to be stored/manipulated in the system in a
> generic way.
> the Subjective Logic API, or some non-monotonic, or second-order logic
> formalism could be used to perform
> "automated research" on knowledge items. The goal of this phase is not to
> develop techniques themselves, but
> to develop the frameworks within which this can happen in the near (or
far)
> future.
>
> Phase 2 : design of prototype/release candidate 1 developed in iteration 1
> of phase 3
>
> Phase 3 : implementation of AXIS-RC1 in iteration 1 of this infinitely
long
> phase.
> As needs to include additional knowledge items arrive, we may
> extend the DocBook system and evolve a new model. Also, humanware
activities
> like
> regularly populating the knowledge bases by the community. One such
project
> is Galactica Initiative, which is a free (GPL or other)
> encyclopedia-on-a-CD, for the poor public. Students, from 9th grade
onwards
> will be involved in an intensive multilingual (English and Malayalam)
> content production exercise, which will ultimately create Galactica. There
> are plans to co-ordinate activities among various instituitions of repute,
> to digitize and/or produce "documentation" on things from stars to cooking
> (the latter including my sister, of which she is a good one ;).
>
> In RC1, we must develop the system to facilitate the basic usage scenarios
> developed for students of my University. However, the models developed in
> the earlier phases must consider this requirement only as a special case.
> This is because of certain design considerations for a knowledge-intensive
> educational system which is a feature of the human aspect of this software
> system.
>
> Client Interface System
>
> The client interface system is now prototyped in HTML/Javscript, but there
> are plans to create a thin client, to allow more complicated gestures than
> possible on standard Web browser interface. This allows Alchemy to be an
> Application Service Provider, that is, no longer do u need to seperately
> download installation files etc for newer version, except for the initial
> download. All user data is stored on server-side. Users may set personal
> information as secret, and thus prevent other users to specifically use
this
> data. But, there seems to be procedures to perform statistical queries,
and
> still hide individuals secrets. Also, the Client must be able to store
> knowledge items to disk, and update them automatically if necessary. What
is
> left on the client side, is basically the GUI. However, by adding specific
> components, to the thin client, one is able to set up ones own knowledge
> base (this is standard for desktop version) and thus facilitates the local
> data storage scenario.
>
> <nostradamus mode>
> Alchemy is designed to be a system where "no word is undefined, no concept
> is unexplained", ie, it must automate research. Alchemy must go
> "intelligent" by 2050, and take over the planet ! j/k.
> eg: design bridge systems to connect to various national patent agencies,
> and bulk transfer pre-Alchemized "knowledge" to AXIS Knowledge Central,
> located here in Kochi
> eg: interoperability with conventional AI projects
> eg: expert system shell with NL queries
> eg: high bandwidth internet connections
> eg: large scale conversions of major Internet sites that contain knowledge
> that does not change (like back issues of journals, etc)
> </nostradamus mode>
>
> The design for the project is to be done in Unified Modelling Language
> (UML).
>
> Help!
> well, now to the "emotional" part: i hope, the group members are
interested
> to let me join your unified effort to build a free knowledge tool for the
> planet. I also hope, all of you
> reply favorably. Thanx.
>
> insanekane
> if i had my way, all "words" would be in quotes
> PS: btw, since im learning DocBook now, i could develop your site for you
>
>
>
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