Posted by mike cahill on September 28, 1999 at 00:17:17:

In Reply to: Re: UTK -- A Challange posted by John Tieso on September 27, 1999 at 21:16:57:

Thank You, John,

I appreciate your post, because it forces me to lay out some of my publishing plans. Then those who might be interested in how The UTK is going to be unrolled can comment on your suggestion with a better understanding of its full meaning.

I am going to make one more posting of the UTK "preliminary" paper for a total of six postings. That will wrap it up. The paper will not cite references. It will simply lay a foundation for a theory that has many implications. I will then publish it in final form in November as indicated in my post of 9/2/99. The November paper will reflect the discussions here over the last few weeks ... discussions that have been extremely valuable to me, and I hope, to a few others. I have learned a lot about how this theory needs to be presented so that it is readily understandable by the executive or leader of any knowledge intensive organization. I have not decided where to publish the final November paper. It will certainly be on the net, but also, I am in discussion with paper publishers … any comments will be appreciated. At a minimum, the "preliminary" version will be on Brint available for anyone.

At the time that the 6th and final post is made and some discussion is focused on it, Brint can put it in any forum that it feels is suitable. We only need it as a reference for future work., if that happens.

If the "preliminary" is isolated in someway, i.e. not as available to the public as it is here in this forum, I think we should try and understand what that means. How do new contributors find it and criticize it, etc.? Also, we will have to understand its disposition in light of things to come. I do not mean that I am against it, I simply mean that I believe The UTK "preliminary" must be somewhere prominently displayed so that it can be analyzed and criticized. I assume that Brint has its own business plan and priorities. If these priorities do not include free and WIDELY open discussion of a theory that pretends to lay a rigorous foundation for Knowledge, then we should get that out in the open now so that I can plan accordingly. I have no desire to go into the "Forum Business". However, here in Silicon Valley such a forum can be set up a day. But this is not my wish. It is not my wish to leave Brint. I have a steady stream of ideas that will make for an exciting forum(s) for a long time to come. (I'm sure that Don M. will note my humbleness.)

Which leads to my next paper: "A Quantitative, Graphical, Dynamic Knowledge Engine".

This paper will deconstruct and superconstruct Five Forces that Drive Industrial Competition in the context of IBM, Microsoft and DEC. The paper will set out an entirely new of way of viewing complex Knowledge Objects of a kind never seen before. I am announcing this paper now, so that those who contemplate the disposal of the "preliminary" UTK paper can contemplate such disposition in the light of immediately portending events.

I hope that Brint can somehow accommodate what I believe will be an exciting and "learningful" future. But no matter what, I am very grateful that my cantankerous self was allowed for a short time to exchange ideas with you all.

Best
Mike

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