ORB Visualization
(soon)
3/1/2004 10:56 AM
Request to meet
about a National Project
Doug Van Houweling
CEO
Internet2 Inc
Cc George Brett, Chief Information Architecture, End-to-End Performance, Internet2
Dr. Van Houweling
After completing a PhD in pure and applied mathematics, and a year teaching, I was appointed (1991) to Georgetown University’s small Neural Network Research Facility.
From this position I was able to interact with the leading scholars in a number of fields centering on computational/mathematical models of human cognitive and perceptual systems.
What came to be identified in my mind was partially captured by my role in an introduction of Stu Hameroff and Sir Roger Penrose at a conference on quantum neuroscience hosted by Karl Pribram in 1992. Hameroff’s work on cytoskeleton lead to the Hameroff-Penrose work on self orchestrating collapse about the nature of human mental event formation.
Further research lead me to Robert Rosen’s work on category theory and to Russia where I was introduced to open system formalisms developed in interact with complex natural systems such as ecological and psychology systems.
Over the years since then I, and many others, have looked at what we regard as a deep confusion in computer science. We have made the observation that this deep confusion is both highly funded and locked into economic life cycles related to our society’s growing use of the Internet.
Some notes on this issue is given at:
On Human Information
Production
During the past two years I have attended most of the GSA sponsored collaboration workshops (Susan Turnbull’s meetings) and meet George Brett in one of those meetings. My sense is that he has come to understand the position that I have taken that IT is falsely framed and that certain issues related to cognitive science, social science, and ecological science are omitted from IT circles and are inhibited by funding mechanisms. His own opinion on this is unclear to me, but perhaps this will be discussed in the near future.
I have made my position precise in the following note
The role of Virginia’s Center
for Innovative technology (CIT)
My hope is that some positive networking might be facilitated by some of the staff at Internet2.
Our call for the National project to establish the knowledge sciences as an academic discipline is reflected in the pages linked from
At first glance, the long-term objectives of Internet2 and this National Project are similar.
Dr. Paul S. Prueitt