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Monday,
March 5 •
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
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Dr.
Nic Fulton
Chief Technology Strategist, Reuterspace,
a division of Reuters |
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.
| 10:30am-
11:00am |
Break |
| 11:00am-
12:30pm |
Standards
Updates
Dan Connolly,
World Wide Web Consortium
Eric Freese, Chair, XTM Working
Group
Jim Mason, Chairman, ISO/IEC
JTCI/SC34
Linda Burman and Ron Daniel Jr.,
Co-Chairs, PRISM Working Group
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| 12:30pm-
2:00pm |
Luncheon
with Poster Presentations & Table-top
Exhibits |
2:00pm-3:30pm
(two sessions included in each
track)
Management
Track; A Manager's View of Technology
Track
Chair: Dianne Kennedy, InfoLoom,
Inc.
An
Introduction to RDF and the Semantic
Web
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Accounting for Social Objects in
Consumer Ontologies
Speaker: David
Koepsell, Business Web Ontologist,
Bowstreet
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.
3:30pm-4:00pm
Break
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.
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.
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.
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.
Technical
Track; Ontologies and Taxonomies
Track
Chair: Nikita Ogievetsky, Cogitech
Designing
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.
Taxonomies and Indexing; A Technical
Strategy
Speaker: Diane
Vizine-Goetz, Senior Research
Scientist, OCLC
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.
5:30pm-7:00pm
Reception with Poster Presentations
and Tabletop Exhibits
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