Subject:	PeterYim Bio

Start:	Thu 7/20/2006 4:00 PM
End:	Thu 7/20/2006 4:30 PM

Recurrence:	(none)

Categories:	4_Peter

Bill Jarrold:
After getting his B.S. in Cognitive Science at MIT Bill moved down to Texas where everything is big, including knowledge
based systems.  While in Texas he worked on Cyc, a large common sense ontology, for 10 years - first at MCC and then
at Cycorp.  He completed his PhD in Counseling Psychology in the Department of Educational Psychology at UT Austin
in 2004.  Since graduating he has been the ontologist for CALO - a DARPA sponsored project to build a cognitive
agent that learns and organizes.  In addition to CALO he is interested in knowledge based models of emotion. 

*Peter Yim*, Co-convener of Ontolog and CEO of CIM3

Peter has more than 30 years working experience as a manager, entrepreneur, technologist, researcher, strategist and futurist. 
He has managed as many as 3000 people and 300 software engineers, and has built companies from scratch to $500 million in revenue.

He talks about things, and then make them happen. He operates comfortably at almost any part of an organization -- from the executive office, to corporate boardrooms, to R&D program management, all the way to being the meeting facilitator or the shop floor operator. His latest endeavors revolve around bootstrapping collective intelligence through communities of practice and fishnet organizations, particularly in helping develop and standardize open semantic technologies in e-Government and e-Business.

Peter graduated from Cornell University in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and has concentrated in organizational behavior and personnel management studies at Cornell’s Graduate Business School.

See also: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PeterYim
Mr. Jack Park is a research scientist in the AI Laboratory at SRI, International in Menlo Park. 
He works with Adam Cheyer's integration team on the DARPA-funded CALO project, where he created the prototype from which the team evolved the IRIS desktop knowledge workstation. 
During employment with VerticalNet, Park served on the XTM Authoring Committee which created the XTM topic maps specification, now a part of the ISO 13250 Topic Maps standard. 
In a former life, while serving as the president of the American Wind Energy Association, Park was constructing microprocessor-based weather stations used for siting wind energy farms and in agricultural applications. 
The massive amounts of data being collected by those stations led to investigations into AI applications in data mining and data organization. Ontologies and inference engines naturally followed. Park has crafted Java-based inference engines for a large banking enterprise, a clinical informatics enterprise, and participated in the construction of the VerticalNet B2B ontology editor. Park authored _The Wind Power Book_ in 1981, and co-authored and edited _XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web_, published in 2002. 
He has taught university courses in renewable energy resources in the U.S., and lectured on those subjects in the U.S., parts of Europe and Africa.
 He spends most of his time now evolving applications for subject maps related to the Douglas Engelbart call for continuous improvement of human capabilities. (MY2) <http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_04_27>
Rex Brooks Bio
A graduate of the University of California Berkeley, Rex Brooks has pursued an extensive and wide-ranging career in Advertising and Communications Design. Since 1988, Rex has also pursued the development of 3D technologies for print, film, video, multimedia and the worldwide web. This led to a brief stint teaching Intermediate  3D Computer Modeling and Animation and also led him to co-found the Content Development Working Group of the Web 3D Consortium. His specific concern is with accurate depictions of humans and human behavior in 3D.Ongoing interests include applications of Computer Technology in design and applying concepts from Psychology, Sociology and Advertising in the area of Semantics and Semiotics for the purposes of improving the fidelity of communications in digital information systems, most particularly human to human and human to machine communications. This led to his involvement with the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) as co-chair of the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee (TC) and the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR) as co-chair of the NCOR Committee on Ontology for Health Informatics.   Rex is a co-founder Humanmarkup.org, Inc. a 501 (c)(3) Non-Profit Corporation which he serves as Executive Director. Rex serves as co-chair of the OASIS Emergency Messages and Notifications SC of the Emergency Management TC. He is a member of the  Web Services for Remote Portlets TC, Service-Oriented Architecture Reference Model TC, chair of the Human Physical Characteristics Description Markup Language (HPCDML) Subcommittee  (SC) of the HumanMarkup TC,  and is a member of the International Health Continuum TC. These activities contibute to improving interoperability as well as the fidelity of communications. Rex is President and CEO of Starbourne Communications Design.

Bob Smith Bio

Professor Emeritus, CS University, Long Beach
 Ontology Manager, Tall Tree Labs, Huntington Beach, CA
 PhD UC Irvine, About 45+ years involvement with IT design and systems 
 analysis/operations research under the umbrella of Team Decision Support Systems
 Member of AAAI, ACM, HIMSS, HB-CERT, OASIS, and the Ontology Forum

 Most recent projects include OASIS-Open standards, Emergency Management  Response planning, Energy-Economic Values Assessments, and geo-spatial  integration for municipal re-localization threats.

 (And a wild and crazy effort to ontologize 45 years of collected 
 media so  that it fits physically into 1/4 of our garage while building on the  insights gleaned from CALO Project documents)... ;-)

•	Denise Bedford:
Denise Bedford's duties at the World Bank Group include management of the World Bank Group's Meta Thesaurus and core metadata strategy, as well as membership in the Information Architecture Group. Since 1997 she has been a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Catholic University of America. In addition to her role as member of the board of Trustees of the Dublin Metadata Initiative, she is a Senior Fellow of the Montague Institute.

Kurt Conrad

Kurt Conrad is an independent consultant, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in the areas of Information Policy and Governance.

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·	Compliance Management
·	Program, Process, Project, and Performance Management
·	Knowledge Management and Engineering
·	XML-Based Document Production Architectures

Facilitation Services
·	Strategic Planning
·	Conflict Resolution
·	Strategic Communications
·	Knowledge Flow Analysis and Design

Conceptualization Services
·	Ontology Management and Engineering
·	Semantic and Structural Analysis of both Implicit and Explicit Data Structures

XML Training and Application Development Services
·	DTD and Schema Design
·	XSLT coding
·	Related Standards

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·	Values-Based Decision-Making
·	Meta-Semantic Classification
·	Methodology Development

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