Here is my short list of people we should definitely visit with.
If any means at all can be found to do so, we should cover their
travel expenses, if nothing else. A possible means of doing that
would be to have them come in under the banner of Bootstrap, SRI,
or Foresight, to give a general talk. We could arrange to take
them to lunch, dinner, and what have you, and set up a second,
more detailed meeting, as well.
* Steve Newcomb
Absolutely brilliant presentations of topic maps and the
processing model. A great communicator. Two or three hours
with him, and you get it, right between the eyeballs.
* Elliot Kimber
In-the-trenches understanding of groves, and how to build
a versioned, linked, node-based system on top of them.
Demo and explanation of his system would be enlightening.
* Eric Freese
Author of SemanText -- using Topic Maps for a
semantic-network/concept-graph, with inferencing. Thorough
understanding of Topic Maps, SGML, and groves.
* Jeff Conklin and Albert
The real story on IBIS and why the online version (QuestMap)
failed. Superb insights, well-explained, as in his IBIS
papers. Has many insigths to share that can form the basis
of the real-world requirements for a system that can actually
work. He and Albert also demostrate their new Mifflin system,
which has some of the needed benefits.)
* Uche Ugbuji
By all accounts, a must-see demo of a system that provides
filterable, orderable, threaded discussions in a virtual
community.
* Kal Ahmed
From Ontopeia. Talk on an API for topic map applications,
and a demo that uses topic maps to make a database
browsable. (Forget query languages!) A good communicator
who is able to present the vision. Uses the IBIS-style in
his slides. (He never heard of IBIS, just found it natural
to present the design alternatives along with the for and
against arguments of each!)
* Benedicte Le Grand
Eric Freese rated this demo a "must see". A 3-dimensional
topic-city, with neighbors and neighborhoods of related
topics. (A talk with the horrible title, "Topic Map Metrics",
which caused me to miss it!)
* Doug Lenat
Fascinating presentation on the progress of the project
that aimed at incorporating "common sense" knowledge in
computer systems. Superb success stories, and the
announcement of the top-level 3,000 topics + 30,000
assertions, available for free. (Deeper levels available
for a fee, for a two year headstart on the field before
they, too, are released into the public domain.)
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