The message below is to the ontolog-forum, an open, international forum
on informal and formal business domain ontologies [1] (I am not on this
listserv but was blind CC'd).
Dr. Leo Obrst of Mitre, a pioneer in this area (I've seen him speak,
he's excellent) will be giving a presentation entitled "Ontologies for
Semantically Interoperable Systems" on a conference call on Thursday,
January 15.
More details below on the call and Leo Obrst.
Joe
[1] http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/ontolog-forum/
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Subject: Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation - Leo Obrst - Thu
2004.01-15
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:27:04 -0800
From: Peter Yim <>
Organization: CIM Engineering, Inc.
To: "[ontolog-forum]" <>
Leo Obrst will be delivering a presentation entitled "Ontologies for
Semantically Interoperable Systems" during this conference call. This
is the long awaited talk we were hoping Leo could do for us.
Conference Call Details:
Date: Thursday, January 15, 2004
Start Time: 10:30 a.m. Pacific Std Time
End Time: 11:55 a.m. Pacific Std Time
Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
Participant Access Code: 040115#
Mark you calendar now and see our conference call wiki page for more
details (closer to the time):
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Conference_Call_2004-01-15
About the speaker:
Dr. Leo J. Obrst is an Artificial Intelligence Scientist at the MITRE
Corporation, where he leads the Information Semantics Teams, and is a
key participating member of numerous Semantic Web standards. He is one
of the co-conveners of [ontolog]. He is co-author, with Michael
Daconta and Kevin Smith (both [ontolog] members as well) of the
recently published book "The Semantic Web - A Guide to the Future of
XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management" (Wiley 2003, ISBN
0-471-43257-1)
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-ppy