Monday,
March 5
Tuesday
Presentations Wednesday
Presentations
Opening Plenaries
9:00am
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Douglas
B. Lenat
President/CEO, Cycorp, Inc. |
Just
Common Sense
Doug
is one of the world's leading computer scientists, and is both the
founder of the CYC® project and the president of Cycorp. He has
been a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University
and Stanford University. He is a prolific author, whose hundreds
of publications include the books: Knowledge Based Systems in Artificial
Intelligence (1982, McGraw-Hill), Building Expert Systems
(1983, Addison-Wesley), Knowledge Representation (1988, Addison-Wesley),
Building Large Knowledge Based Systems (1989, Addison-Wesley). His
1976 Stanford thesis earned him the bi-annual IJCAI Computers and
Thought Award in 1977. He was one of the original Fellows of the
AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence).
9:30am
The
Industrialization of Knowledge
Dr.
Nic Fulton is the Chief Technology Strategist for Reuterspace, a
division of Reuters focusing on B2B and B2C initiatives. Nic has
worked for Reuters in a number of locations, and most recently headed
up XML Architecture and Design for the company. In this role, Nic
has overseen Reuters involvement with W3C as XML has developed,
and coordinated Reuters involvement in standards consortia including
FpML, NewsML, IRML and XBRL. Nic has also been a long term member
of Reuters core Research and Standards group, in which he acts as
an internal consultant to many key Internet
projects. Nic has a PhD in Quantum Physics and lives and works in
New York with his astrophysicist wife.
10:00am
Scott Cooper
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Knowledge Management
Business Unit , Lotus Development Corporation, a division of IBM
Scott
Cooper is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Lotus' Knowledge
Management Business Unit. He is responsible for the development
of Lotus' suite of KM products including the Lotus Knowledge Discovery
System, a suite of technologies designed to allow organizations
to discover the contextual relationships between people and information.
He also manages the Document Management, Workflow, Search, and SmartSuite
teams.
He
joined Lotus in 1992 as a Product Manager responsible for developing
add-on technologies to the Lotus Notes Platform. During his career
at Lotus he has focused on developing new products for emerging
markets and has brought over a dozen new products to market. As
General Manager of the Document Management business he launched
Domino.Doc, a content management add-on for Domino that has achieved
massive growth and a multi-million seat installed base. In 1997
he led the acquisition of Onestone technologies, a German workflow
technology vendor and integrated their business into the Lotus knowledge
management family.
He
was also one of the principal strategists that conceived the current
Lotus Knowledge Management vision and technology strategy. This
marketplace represents one of Lotus' most significant growth opportunities.
Prior
to joining Lotus, Mr. Cooper held various development and marketing
positions at Eastman Kodak. He joined Kodak as an engineer working
on advanced development of digital imaging applications. As Product
Engineer, he was instrumental in developing and launching Eastman
Kodak's first PC-based desktop imaging product. Mr. Cooper was also
a founding member of a Kodak subsidiary that built the first add-on
product for Lotus Notes.
Mr.
Cooper speaks extensively at industry events, is an advisor to several
Lotus business partners, and is a recognized leader in the Knowledge
Management arena. Mr. Cooper holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer
Science from Saint John Fisher College.
11:00am - 12:30pm
W3C, XTM, ISO, PRISM Standards Update Panel
Representatives of the W3C, XTM, ISO, and PRISM
organizations will provide the latest information on the status
of their respective technical work items.
Panel Speakers:
Dan Connolly, XML Activity Lead, W3C
Eric Freese, Chair, XTM Working Group
Jim Mason, Chairman, ISO/IEC JTCI/SC34 - Power
Point Slides
Linda Burman, Co-Chair, PRISM Working Group
Ron Daniel Jr., Co-Chair, PRISM Working Group
2:00pm-3:30pm (two sessions included
in each track)
Management
Track: A Manager's View of Technology
Track Chair: Dianne Kennedy,
InfoLoom, Inc.
RDF
and the Semantic Web: What Managers Need to Know
Speaker: Joel
Sachs, Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Description: Massively improved search; knowledge
sharing; corporate memory - these are some of the promises
held forth by the impending semantic web. In this session,
we will give a manager's introduction to RDF, the foundation
on which the semantic web is being built. We will look
at representative scenarios/architectures showing how
RDF can be used today, and at tentative architectures
showing how RDF will be used tomorrow.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
An Introduction to Service Architectures
Speaker: David
Turner, XML Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Description: Web services are fast becoming the
programmatic backbone for electronic commerce. A Web Service
describes specific business functionality exposed by a
company for the purpose of providing a way for another
company to use the service. Integrating web services into
service frameworks and providing mechanisms to facilitate
web service discovery remain challenges. In this presentation,
David Turner will explain what a service architecture
is and discuss leading service architectures including
.net, ebXML, BizTalk, and UDDI.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Implementer
Track: Tools and Applications
Track Chair: Bryan Bell,
SynthBank
PRISM
: An RDF-Based Metadata Standard for Publishers
Speaker: Linda
Burman, VP, Standards & Evangelism, Kinecta Corporation
& Ron
Daniel Jr., Standards Architect, Interwoven, Inc.
Description: PRISM, Publishers Requirements for
Industry Standard Metadata, is an RDF metadata vocabulary,
developed in response to a critical need in the publishing
marketplace for a standard to enable the automated repurposing,
aggregating, syndicating, personalizing and post-processing
magazine, catalog, book, news and mainstream journal content.
Learn about RDF, metadata, and the PRISM metadata vocabulary
in this presentation by the co-chairs of these standards.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Practical
RDF Tools Towards a Semantic Web
Speaker: Dave
Beckett, Technical Researcher, Institute for Learning
and Research Technology, University of Bristol
Description: There are now many RDF tools that
are developed and deployed on the web. This presentation
will introduce them, their applications, and describe
how they are involved in the steps towards a future Semantic
Web.
Presentation Materials: HTML
Slides
Technical
Track: Ontologies and Taxonomies
Track Chair: Nikita Ogievetsky,
Cogitech
Ontology
Analysis and Design for Topic Map Applications
Speaker: Ann
Wrightson, Consultant, Ontopia AS; KnoW Steering Group
Description: This presentation will give you an
analysis and design method to design ontologies for representation
in topic maps, based on concepts and methods already proved
in pilot projects across academic and industry R&D.;
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Accounting for Social Objects
Speaker: David
Koepsell, Ontologist, Bowstreet, Inc.
Description: In this session, attendees will explore
the hallmarks of successful ontologies and will examine
a method for accounting for social objects in consumer
ontologies. We will also discuss how to predict ontologies'
performance in search engines and directories and test
them as they are developed.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
4:00pm-5:30pm
(two sessions included
in each track)
Management
Track: A Manager's View of Technology
Track Chair: Dianne Kennedy,
InfoLoom, Inc.
Ontologies
and Taxonomies: A Manager's Overview
Speaker: Dr.
Joseph Williamson, Vice President Knowledge Services,
EDS - Federal
Description: As we struggle to implement intuitive
intranet navigation, seek to leverage shared meaning and
language and as we place more emphasis on intangibles,
collaboration, innovation, virtual communication the use
of taxonomies and ontologies increase in visibility and
importance. In fact we find the applications of these
technologies surfacing in eCommerce, in portals, in object
orientated and RDMS, in informal group work, in B2b exchanges,
in large global enterprises and even in mom and pop shops.
In this presentation learn more about taxonomies and ontologies
and how they can be employed.
Presentation Materials: PDF
Slides
Topic Maps and XTM; A Manager's
Overview
Speakers: Michel
Biezunski, CEO/Founder, InfoLoom, Inc. and Steven
R. Newcomb, CoolHeads Consulting
Description: This session will provide a non-technical
introduction to Topic Maps (ISO 13250) and XML Topic Maps
(XTM, GPS for the Web). The speakers for this session,
co-editors of the ISO/IEC Topic Maps specification and
founding co-chairs for the XTM Activity, will provide
managers with a basic conceptual understanding of Topic
Maps and explain how this technology can be applied in
a business environment.
Presentation Materials: TBA
Implementer
Track: Tools and Applications
Track
Chair: Bryan Bell, SynthBank
Implementing a Semantic
Web Site
Speaker: Eric
van der Vlist, CEO, Dyomedea
Description: Some of the semantic web and knowledge
technologies can easily be used with today's technology
to facilitate the navigation on medium sized web sites.
This presentation will show how one can build on keywords
available in most of the XML formats to derive RDF Site
Summaries, Topic Maps and pages classifications that are
very helpful for navigating on medium or complex web sites.
This will also prove to possibly increase the average
number of pages per visitor.
Presentation Materials: HTML
Slides
Practical RDF Inference: A Case Study of OpenTechnology.org
Speaker: Uche
Ogbuji, Principal Consultant, Fourthought, Inc.
Description: This presentation is a case study
of OpenTechnology.org's use of RDF and inference on RDF
data to help automate content and other data management.
It will present Fourthought's practical success in using
RDF for low-cost knowledge management in a closed, controlled
system.
Presentation Materials: HTML
Slides
Technical
Track: Ontologies and Taxonomies
Track
Chair: Nikita Ogievetsky, Cogitech
Quality
Taxonomies
Speaker: Jim
Nisbet, Senior Vice President of Technology, Semio
Corporation
Description: Learn what a taxonomy is and how to
develop a quality taxonomy. This presentation highlights
methods to ensure quality taxonomies using quality metrics
to deal with adverse factors such as update frequency,
the meeting of multiple user needs, and the growth of
the information mass.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Taxonomies and Indexing: A Technical
Strategy
Speaker: Diane
Vizine-Goetz, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Online
Computer Library Center
Description: This presentation will provide an
overview of principles, standards, and methods for organizing
information using knowledge organization (KO) tools such
as thesauri, classification schemes, and other taxonomic
structures. The costs and benefits of using free text,
controlled vocabularies and classificatory structures
will be addressed. References to KO resources will be
provided.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
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