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Ontolog invited Speaker - Professor Jim Hendler - Thu 2005-08-11

Conference Call Details

  • Subject: [ontolog] Invited Speaker Presentation - Jim Hendler - Thu 2005-08-11
  • Agenda: Professor Jim Hendler from the University of Maryland will be doing a "Semantic Web Q & A" with the community
  • Date: Thursday, August 11, 2005
  • Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time / 1:30 PM Eastern Standard Time (see world clock for other time zones)
    • Duration: 1.5 hours
  • Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
    • Participant Access Code: "686564#"
  • Shared-screen support (VNC session) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
    • view-only password: "ontolog"
    • if you plan to be logging into this shared-screen option (which the speaker may be navigating), and you are not familiar with the process, please try to call in 5 minutes before the start of the session so that we can work out the connection logistics. Help on this will generally not be available once the presentation starts.
    • people behind corporate firewalls may have difficulty accessing this. If that is the case, please download the slides below and runing them locally. The speaker will prompt you to advance the slides during the talk.
  • RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated, to allow us to prepare enough conferencing resources.
  • Please note that this session will be recorded, and the audio archives is expected to be made available as open content to our community membership and the public at-large under our prevailing open IPR policy.
  • Acknowledgement: special appreciations to Mark Musen for extending the invitation on behalf of our community to Jim Hendler, making this session a reality for all of us.
Professor Hendler has an appoitment right after this session, therefore we will be starting and ending the session promptly. Please note!

Attendees

  • Also expected (most of these people probably logged in; we stopped trying to identify attendees once the recording session started. About 35 connections to the conference bridge were employed during the session.):

Agenda & Proceedings

  • Professor James A. Hendler from the University of Maryland will be doing a "Semantic Web Q & A" with the community
hendler.gif [Professor James Hendler]
Abstract (by Professor Hendler):
The Ontolog community has heard many presentations touching on what the Semantic Web is, how it interacts with ontology development and/or web services, and what semantics might offer. By now, you must have questions you want answered about the hows and whys of RDF, OWL, and the emerging Semantic Web Rules and Services areas. Rather than an organized talk, I will put myself at your disposal to answer questions about what these technologies are, how they can be used, and where they'll go next. So come and ask, and I'll do my best to answer.
  • Session Format: this will be virtual session over a phone conference setting, augmented by shared computer screen support
    • In view of the fact that we are pressed for time, we will skip the normal attendee introductions. Please try to populate your namesake page on this wiki if you haven't already done so (especially if you are a member of the community.)
    • Professor Hendler will then make some opening statements to set the stage for the discussion (~5 min.)
    • we will then go into an Open Discussion between the participants and the invited speaker (60~75 min.)
      • Pleasae identify yourself, by announcing your name and affiliation, before posing a question (especially since we aren't doing the intros at the beginning).
      • We will try to limit the discussion of each item to a few minutes, so as to allow us to cover the broad range of topics that the Semantic Web may entail. The moderator may interrupt and direct the session to move onto the next subject, if a specific item tends to be taking too long.
  • Bio of Professor James A. Hendler:
Jim Hendler is a Professor at the University of Maryland and the Director of the Joint Institute for Knowledge Discovery at the University of Maryland. He has joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science, the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and is an affiliate of the Institute for Systems Research. He has authored about 200 technical papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, Semantic Web, agent-based computing and high performance processing. One of the inventors of the "Semantic Web," Hendler was the recipient of a 1995 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, is a former member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board, and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is also the former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), was awarded a US Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 2002, and is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Coordination Group. He is the Editor in Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems and is on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science.
  • If you have questions for the presenter, we appreciate your posting them here: (please identify yourself)
  • For those who have further questions for Jim Hendler, please email him at <hendler@cs.umd.edu>, or, better still, post them to the ontolog forum so that we can all benefit from the discourse.
  • Session ended 2005.08.11 12:12pm PDT

Session Recording of the Jim Hendler "Semantic Web Q&A" Session

(Thanks to Kurt Conrad and Peter P. Yim for their help with getting the session recorded. -ppy)

  • To download the audio recording of the entire session, click here
    • the playback of the audio files require the proper setup, and an MP3 compatible player on your computer.
  • Conference Date and Time: August 11, 2005 10:38am~12:12pm Pacific Daylight Time
  • Duration of Recording: 1 Hour 34 Minutes
  • Recording File Size: 33.0 MB (in mp3 format)
  • Telephone Playback Expiration Date: August 21, 2005 12:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time
    • Prior to the above Expiration Date, one can call-in and hear the telephone playback of the session.
    • Playback Dial-in Number: 1-805-620-4002 (Ventura, CA)
    • Playback Access Code: 788091#
  • An attempt to make available a transcript of this session is underway ...
    • here's the beginning, a sample done by an outside transcription service, which I reviewed and edited. (--ppy/2005.10.01)
    • this is the full unedited transcript, straight from the transcription service (who, incidentally, did a geat job at it!). Do take a look. Anyone willing to volunteer some time to review and edit this transcript, please contact <peter.yim@cim3.com>. Help and support (especially if we can institutionalize this) is solicited and appreciated.



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