Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Resilience Project White Paper
(Response to note from The
Speaker’s Office [376] )
(Response ŕ to [376] )
Starting the Discussion with the National Science Foundation
About the proposed Resilience Project
Correspondence: from Stuart Robbins
John: This is of high interest on two levels. First,
as a result of our mentoring sessions with The Federal CIO Council in
Washington, many of us came away with distinct impressions about the
inability of even the most talented and well-intentioned systems professionals
to have a positive impact upon a bureaucracy that is structured to retain
power/control, and resist change.
The second, as discussed in my book on Grid Computing, is that the foundational
errors noted above are of the most serious type - Fundamental Attribution
Errors. These are the
most difficult to identify and correct, and involve not only systems but
cultural risks that expand over time. Thanks for pointing me in this
direction.
Stuart
Comment: The Resilience Project seeks to identify correctly a phenomenon that must become part of our history. This phenomenon is the intentional distortion of information science by federal funding during the period (1945 – 2007).
Resilience Project White Paper
Note sent January 29th ŕ [382]
January 30th reply from NSF ŕ [383]