Thursday, November 17, 2005
Center of Excellence Proposal
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( link to the Taos Discussion à [63] )
Dr Jay Paraki is one of the India scientists who have a great deal of high level knowledge ... and some specific related to India continent. He is back in India, but perhaps he could develop a small group of "medical informatics" experts in India as science advisors to us.
We may be able to grow a support group. The cultural and agricultural renewal needed along the Rio Grande has unique elements, but there are many similarities
The valley where Presidio Texas is located will likely never be able to return to the crops that the valley once supported (onions and cantaloupe) ... but "Off the Grid" technology and David and Scott Sargert's "Living Machine" technology may be able to extend a new economic process from an cultural understanding of indigenous knowledge of plants in the Chihuahuan desert. To do this, we need the support of some of the faculty in biology.
This indigenous knowledge of plants may be "mined" using my group's "semantic extraction" technology when applied to selected Mexican texts. Enrique Madrid is one of the people who know a great deal about a relationship between the Mexican names of plants and the uses of those plants (as known only by "special people".) The theory supporting an semantic extraction project is the same theory that Tom Adi and Ken Ewell take about.
I know that this paragraph above can be doubted, and is not likely understandable without some background scholarship.
The proposal is for
· Collecting several hundred pages of text that uses proper Mexican spelling
· Modifying the Adi parser and ontology so that it is specific to the Mexican words
· Running the parser so that Orb triples, in the form < a, r, b >, are created
· Conversion of the Orb set into an active knowledge base
By "active knowledge base" I am speaking specifically of the Mark 3 Knowledge Processor that Dr Ballard is completing.
Side note:
One of my dad's friends was the first major grower of aloe vera plant. Now this plant supports a huge market. We should look for two or three similar plants.
We might also look carefully at the effects of using water rights along the Rio Grande to support aquaculture. Aquaculture has the potential to increase pollution, or decrease it depending on how it is set up and run. So the key to an aquaculture component is human knowledge and sense of responsibility (something that is missing in the current situation).