Richard, new co chair introduction

Thanks, Paola, for nominating me.

Greetings everyone,

I'm Richard Lea, still in the middle of the 10-day off we call Golden Week in Japan 😅
I'm working in Rakuten Mobile, the mobile carrier business under a Japanese electronic commerce and online retailing company -- Rakuten.

Meanwhile, I'm also coping with my PhD study💦 in Tokyo Metropolitan University at Semantic Web and Ontology Engineering, attempting to deliver an application of Deductive Classifier [1] meeting the needs of both personal privacy and requirements of QA from software engineering.

I love web technologies especially JavaScript (Maybe I should say TypeScript at present Lol).
Recently I was also interested in applying Web Standards in communication field, doing some experiment in Web Bluetooth standard on a hardware chipset.
Now in AIKR, I'm studying the Neurosymbolic Integration,
* helping Datasets, Materials managements and tooling -- like GitHub, R practice – easing the collaboration between members in the group;
* updating the AIKR plan;
* seeking the chance in industrial knowledge management.

Though it is said that we are now in the third AI boom called the era of data [2], I am still believing in the value from legacy expert system and description logics, where I am seeking whether there could be a chance in current Knowledge Representation work towards AI in W3C.

By the way, because I am living in Tokyo time, I am related very much to the challenges from time-zone for attending in mid-night meetings or even discussions. I can also help ease such challenges from time-zone as well, to have more members contributing and enjoying in AIKR.

Yours, Richard
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rlea/


[1] Robert MacGregor and William Swartout. (1991). Using a Description Classifier to Enhance Knowledge
Representation. IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications 6, 3 (June 1991), 41 46.
[2] Yasufumi Takama. (2017). Web Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence. Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 25-30, https://doi.org/10.20965/jaciii.2017.p0025


From: Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
Sent: 03 May 2022 17:29
To: W3C AIKR CG <public-aikr@w3.org>
Subject: Greetings, updates, planned activities


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Good Peoples

The list has been quiet. but the AI KR winds are moving. Glad to see  renewed interest in KR , thank you for sticking here

In addition to pandemics. earthquakes, floods, wars impacting the global population
there have been also personal situations,
including intrusions, hacks, connectivity sticky keyboards, systems breakdown, various ailments, blindness,

I nonetheless managed to publish some  research  relevant to AI KR
See my latest publication here
<https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/system-level-knowledge-representation-for-edge-intelligence/20029570>
sorry it is behind the paywall but should anyone be interested, I may be able to sneak out a preview copy - key points will be made open access soon

 Richard Lea  has stepped forward to be
co-co chair he is working actively in AI KR and participated in our TPAC meeting last year
We are having productive discussions and plans to collaborate on some standardization relating to AI KR. Now brainstorming, anyone interested in attending our calls, we can try to accommodate timezones

Our first report (at last. put together around
 TPAC time last year) is ready, apologies it took so long,
Please let us know if you have any feedback and corrections before it is published this week
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Y1qICrKpPcilwIwQdA5lmTwW1iO4cywL2NESdek70E/edit?usp=sharing


CG members are also welcome to start making notes about their work in AI KR to be included in the next report i they have something to share
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Y1qICrKpPcilwIwQdA5lmTwW1iO4cywL2NESdek70E/edit?usp=sharing