Re: The DATA Act, Department of the Treasury, and Machine Learning Technologies

Gannon,

 

Thank you for your points.  My expression about linguistics observations, topics was correlated to my own participation.  Others can choose to use poetic language, puns, and analogy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reasoning-analogy/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy) in lieu of structured composition, rationale and substantiation.



Anecdotally, I have observed, on the specific topic of EDM, that businesspeople were averse to discussing some philosophical and policy topics.  EDM is one of many interesting topics, in terms of argumentation, are there other technology topics which would be interesting for episodes of a debate show?



In terms of stakeholders and processes, the desire for quality and substantive debate on contemporary technological topics could be phrased, by some, as a 501c3 topic.  The desire to provide such debates to others where the participants express points of view on sides of topics, adding value to the overall presentation.

 


In terms of participants and perceived risks with regard to discussions, multi-sector forums include industry, academia and government and academia might more often discuss philosophical topics, philanthropic topics, and businesspeople participating might feel averse to such discussions though, as individuals, they could contribute substantively to such discussions.  Some of my points can be summarized that individuals in each sector, industry, academia and government should be able to speak more freely, not only at the W3C, but on the entire Web, about a larger number of topics, and also that topics like roles, norms and mores are pertinent.  There are also topics about roles, uses of the Web, 9am to 5pm and 5pm to 9am.

 

Has the news told you that Polyphemus or Panoptes were watching social networking websites that you use?  Has the news told you that businesses, your employers, are interested in social networking data?

 

In addition to abstract concerns, concerns for others, and the Web, there is a desire for data.  Some data is available at websites such as: http://www.gallup.com/poll/wellbeing.aspx .  If we had more data, we could make more precise declarative statements in the overlap of computer science and social science (http://www.w3.org/community/egovernance/2013/08/22/digital-forms-questionnaires-surveys-and-opinion-polls/, see also: National Science Foundation).

 


In addition to discussing rhetoric, and I have indicated observations of some atypical occurrences, interesting topics include discussions about workflows, group dynamics, process models, and productivity.  We who build the technologies for others can look at situations and scenarios and consider enhancing conveniences for others in their uses of computers.

 

Topics which we can discuss include the overlap of productivity and socialization with uses of hyperlinks.  The email authoring software can include menu options to link to recent activities, posts and blogs and tweets, in the postscripts of emails.  While authoring letters, users could make use of menus to provide links, links to their recent articles and content elsewhere.  Ergonomically, uses of graphical menus and recent activities across applications and application contexts, including the Web browser, instead of clipboarding URL’s.

 

Such systems could be interoperable with systems for notes and Web browsers.  Use of postscripts in letters to link to dynamic content, in the context of socialization, and the capability to take notes of the links provided by others, to be able to provide hyperlinks to expression, as well as to learn more about the opinions of one another on broader topics as an option available during socialization in topic-based groups and threads using computers and the Web.

 

Online news is interesting to many people, people who read the news.  During socialization, including in forums and mailing lists, individuals might want to make available for others their opinions about domestic and international news.  Domestic news and international news, matters of civics both to discuss, are interesting to a number of scholars and scientists.  Convenience in the area of linking to dynamic content authored by participants and available elsewhere online could be a technology topic.

 

A system for notetaking (http://www.w3.org/community/egovernance/2013/09/03/the-web-notes-and-civic-participation/), interoperating with links in the postscripts of letters in forums, could convenience users in multitasking.  Those topics are pertinent to desktop and laptop computing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Desktop_and_laptop_computers) mobile computing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Mobile_devices) and the Web (http://www.w3.org/).  There have been discussions with Microsoft, vis a vis Windows 8, and discussions in Google Android developer mailing lists are, at this time, pending.

 

The Web and sociology are constants as we envision futures and the topics of computer science and social science, and multidisciplinary overlaps, are where research can occur to arrive at solutions to our concerns.




Kind regards,


Adam