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Bill has spent his life living by his wits and his words. In his time, and as the spirit has moved him, he’s been: a Soviet Area expert and US/USSR exchange student, a computer programmer and system designer, a consultant to startups and the Fortune 500, an Artificial Intelligence researcher, a son, a husband and lover, a father and grandfather, an omnivorous reader with a soft spot for science fiction and science non-fiction, and now, Lord help us, a novelist — with two published technothrillers (Singularity and Dualism) under his belt, and a third (Triploidy) waiting in the wings.
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In his copious spare time, Bill created MetaLang, a knowledge-based, language-independent, end-user authorable conversational agent technology suite. MetaLang agents employ natural language processing and knowledge representation capabilities to hold up their end of a conversation. Rather than parroting canned responses, or matching wild-carded patterns, a MetaLang agent relies on its “mindset” — the totality of the memories, beliefs, opinions, and knowledge comprising its simulated personality, based on Minskyesque frames populated from a homegrown, mid-sized (~12K concepts) ontology — to extemporize like a human improvisational actor across a broad spectrum of instructional, entertainment, and customer-service interactions. MetaLang agents are crafted via a dialogue-based knowledge-authoring utility enabling content creators to create new mindsets without writing a single line of code, simply by “coaching” the agents in plain English.
'''IAOA Semantic Web Applied Ontology (SWAO) SIG'''


Bill’s non-fiction writing credits include “The Wolf at the Door,” an unconventional two-part attempt to marry the fields of cognitive psychology and software engineering for the journal DataBase Programming & Design, a chapter on artificial intelligence in foreign language learning for Melissa Holland’s Intelligent Language Tutors, a beginner’s guide to natural-language processing for the Proceedings of the 1997 Computer Game Developers Conference, multiple Huffington Post blogs on AI and machine reading, a blog on English grammar, usage, and writing style citing passages from the works of Dan Brown as cautionary examples, and a treatise on the art of storytelling as a tool of military command for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Meetings are normally on the first Monday of the month at these times.  


Bill is currently engaged as a Senior Ontologist at NTENT, Inc. (www.ntent.com) — a next-generation semantic search firm based in Carlsbad CA.
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== Agenda ==
 
* Issue of the Journal of Applied Ontology
** Status update
** Revised Papers status and progress
 
* Housekeeping, blog etc.
** Blog page, http://ontologforum.org/index.php/Blog:SWAO_Blog
** Updates
 
* AOB
 
* Next Meeting
 
== Proceedings ==
Proceedings are captured in the SWAO Special Edition reviewers status file.
 
== Attendees ==
 
 
== Previous Meetings ==
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Latest revision as of 20:57, 4 August 2019

Number 44
Duration 1 hour
Date/Time June 12 2017 17:30 GMT
10:30 PST/1:30pm EST
6:30pm BST/7:30pm CEST
Convener MikeBennett

IAOA Semantic Web Applied Ontology (SWAO) SIG

Meetings are normally on the first Monday of the month at these times.


Agenda

  • Issue of the Journal of Applied Ontology
    • Status update
    • Revised Papers status and progress
  • AOB
  • Next Meeting

Proceedings

Proceedings are captured in the SWAO Special Edition reviewers status file.

Attendees

Previous Meetings

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