Monday, January 29, 2007
Resilience Project White Paper
(Response to note from The Speaker’s Office [376] )
1/29/2007 1:27 PM
(Response ŕ to [376] )
1.)
What
is the problem you are working to address?
Answer: We are working
to correct foundational errors in computer science, in particular those leading
to the central notions of the academic field of artificial
intelligence and the related notion that "all processes are business
processes". Many natural scientists feel that “The role of computer science in the area of knowledge
management cannot be solved by traditional thinking". We have acquired broad evidence that the
community of business-program managers who support the AI and all-process-is-a-business
paradigm have unduly inhibited a positive alternative paradigm based on natural
science literatures. Persistent
federal funding over four decades has been instrumental to this
inhibition.
2.)
How
does the Resilience Project address that problem?
Answer: By assisting the
Speaker's Office to investigate the current IT procurement processes, including
those at NSF, NIST, CIA, NSA, DARPA and OMB (e-Gov). A specific
investigation of the U.S. CIO Council is proposed. The question to be investigated:
Has the government willingly allowed a fraudulent procurement process to
take 328 billion over 5 years? The
consequences of the investigation may change the nature of IT procurement
and save as much as 100 billion dollars per year; an amount now being
spent on non-productive IT consulting. Funding for the Resilience Project would come for between 2 % –
10 % of funding now expended on e-Gov consulting.
3.)
What
is the role of the federal government in this issue?
Answer: The role of the
federal government has been to fund business processes that are
poorly informed by natural science in the engineered, by narrow
business interests, development of a very large information
technology business sector. Today most deep innovation is being
blocked from even being presented to the CIO council and other government
agencies. The peer review mechanisms
are undercut by insider knowledge and influence. Testimony supporting this contention is available.
4.)
What
is your specific ask from our office?
Answer: We ask that the
Speaker call for a series of two week conferences on the issues related to the
Resilience Project, to be held at Georgetown University starting within one
month, and then once a month. The invitations to the initial
conference would be modified from a conference we proposed to OSD (Office of
Secretary of Defense) in 2002. The
conference series would be titled
"The Past, Present and Future of
Information Science".
A
science board would be appointed and a budget assigned allowing a diversity of
innovators to prepare scientific and technical papers and demonstrations.
This communication is posted also at
http://www.ontologystream.com/beads/nationalDebate/377.htm
Very respectfully
Dr Paul S Prueitt (mathematics and cognitive quantum neuroscience)
505-613-2108
http://www.ontologystream.com/admin/PaulStephenPrueitt.htm
some discussion on the Resilience Project proposal ŕ [378]