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EXECUTABLE ENGLISH -- Crowdsourced Knowledge Applications that Compute and Explain

By Adrian Walker

May 26, 2011 at 10:50am

Knowledge Management

Executable English

Database Applications

English explanations

Internet Business Logic

Moonshots

Enable communities of passion

Redefine the work of leadership

Summary

Social Media for Knowledge Capture and Question Answering in Executable English over Databases. It could become the next big thing after Twitter and Facebook. And, it's free.

To use the system there is nothing to install. Simply point your browser to the site below, to run the examples provided, and to write and run your own examples.

Online at www.reengineeringllc.com Shared use is free, and there are no advertisements

Context

Imagine government and other web sites answering an open ended collection of English questions, and also explaining the answers in English. Imagine government folks and citizens socially networking, Wikipedia-style, to continually expand the range of questions that can be answered.

The approach starts from the observation that data by itself is necessary, but not enough, for many practical uses of an intranet or the Web.

What's also needed is knowledge about how to use the data to answer an ever increasing number of questions -- such as, "How much could the US save through energy independence?".

There's emerging technology that can leverage social networking for the significant task of acquiring and curating the necessary knowledge -- in the form of Executable English.

You can Google "Executable English" to find this.

Triggers

According to The Economist journal:

A common cause of disaster in software development is that the end
product is precisely what the customer ordered. In a world moving
at Internet speed, a customer's objectives are constantly being revised,
so programmers have to be able to hit a moving target.

and again from the Economist:

It is a familiar tale: the government announces an ambitious
information technology (IT) project, awards contracts and sets deadlines.
But then the costs start to rise and deadlines pass. The project is
eventually completed years late, way over budget, and fails to deliver
the promised benefits - or is scrapped altogether.

According to a Forrester Research paper:

Aligning IT strategy with business strategy has been one of the top
three issues confronting IT and business executives for more than 20 years.
Polling of CIOs and business executives conducted in 2004 revealed
that aligning IT and business goals remains their No. 1 or 2 priority.

Materials

[1] www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/Stimulus_Arkansas.agent

[2] www.reengineeringllc.com/A_Wiki_for_Business_Rules_in_Open_Vocabulary_Ex...

[3] www.reengineeringllc.com/Oil_Industry_Supply_Chain_by_Kowalski_and_Walke...

[4] www.reengineeringllc.com/ibldrugdbdemo1.htm (Flash video with audio)

[5] www.reengineeringllc.com/EnergyIndependence1Video.htm (Flash video with audio)

[6] Internet Business Logic
A Wiki and SOA endpoint for Executable English Q/A
Online at www.reengineeringllc.com
Shared use is free, and there are no advertisements

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