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Space Digest                Fri,  9 Apr 93       Volume 16 : Issue 439

Today's Topics:
                        Biosphere II (2 msgs)
CIKM-93 SPECIAL SESSION ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN SCIENTIFIC DATABASES
Gibbons outlines Space Station redesign guidance [Release 93-64] (Forwarded)
          Hoosier eccentricity (was Re: Quaint US Archaisms)
                        Plans, absence therof

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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 12:47:34 GMT
From: fred j mccall 575-3539 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Biosphere II
Newsgroups: sci.space

In <1q09ud$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Pat) writes:


>Why is everyone being so critical of B2?

>It's ed Basses money,  why should we care.
>If he spent it on Cocaine and hookers, no-one would care.

>Be glad he didn't buy an S&L instead.

>pat

>besides it's  holistic science,  they are attempting to establish
>an inbalance eco-sphere.  they don't need to know neccesarily
>each interaction,  they need to know wether or not it will
>self sustain.  to date,  it seems they are having O2 balance
>problems.  It's like a farm.  if the crops grow it's a success.

Even if all the people die and they can't duplicate it because they
don't know how it worked in the first place?  Hardly sounds like
'science' to me, Pat.

'Holistic' science strikes me the same way that crystal pyramids and
the New Age do; it *sounds* real pretty, but calling it 'science' is
like calling Creation Science 'science'.  It ain't no sech animal.

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Date: 8 Apr 1993 15:29:49 GMT
From: Greg F Walz Chojnacki <[e-mail]>
Subject: Biosphere II
Newsgroups: sci.space

From article <1q09ud$[e-mail]>, by [e-mail] (Pat):
>
> Why is everyone being so critical of B2?
>
I haven't been following it for quite a while, and not too closely even then,
but my main objection is the self-righteous hype associated with it.

That and the claims of scientific rigor or usefulness, even if it is holistic,
a term and don't claim to understand.

Greg

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Date: 8 Apr 93 14:28:32 GMT
From: Chris Overton <[e-mail]>
Subject: CIKM-93 SPECIAL SESSION ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN SCIENTIFIC DATABASES
Newsgroups: sci.psychology,sci.math.stat,sci.space,sci.research,sci.geo.geology,sci.bio

The deadline for submission of papers to the Second International Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-93) has been extended to May 15,
1993.



                   CALL FOR PAPERS:
          KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN SCIENTIFIC DATABASES

       A Special Session of the Second International Conference
            on Information and Knowledge Management
                 November 1 - 5, 1993
            Double Tree Hotel, Washington D.C., USA


Scientific disciplines from astronomy to earth sciences to biology are faced
with extraordinary growth in the complexity and volume of data that must be
examined to gain new scientific insights.  To cope, researchers have turned to
techniques for automating their analyses with the goal of making discoveries
that might otherwise be missed due to the sheer mass of data.  Knowledge
discovery in databases is an emerging research area that draws from information
management and machine learning, among others, to address the problem of
uncovering nontrivial, implicit information in databases.  It offers
considerable potential for automating at least some aspects of the scientific
discovery process.

The International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
will host a special session on Knowledge Discovery in Scientific Databases to
explore recent results in both the theory and practice of the methodology.
Contributions from researchers and practitioners in the fields of information
management, statistical and heuristic machine learning, knowledge acquisition,
knowledge representation and allied technologies as applied to the problem of
scientific discovery are welcome.

General information on CIKM is enclosed at the end of this message.  For
further information on the session, contact:

G. Christian Overton
U. of Pennsylvania
422 Curie Blvd
CRB 475
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6145
phone: [phone]
fax: [phone]
internet: [e-mail] or [e-mail]

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper/tutorial/exhibit submission:  May 15, 1993
Notification of acceptance:  July 15, 1993

Camera ready papers due: September 1, 1993

Please indicate in the cover letter that the submission is for the special
session on Knowledge Discovery in Scientific Databases.


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Subject: CIKM '93 Call-For-Papers (NOTE: DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED to MAY 15)

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* Please Note: More than 100 papers have arrived by the orginal due    *
*   date. However, given the numerous world-wide requests for extension,  *
*   it was decided to extend the submission daeadline to May 15, 1993.  *
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CIKM-93, the second International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management will be held November 1-5, 1993 at the Double Tree Hotel in
Washington D.C., USA.  Like the successful CIKM-92, it will provide an
international forum for presentation and discussion of research on
information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data
and knowledge bases.

Confirmed Invited Speakers Include:

Mike Stonebraker (UC-Berkeley),
Stefano Spaccapietra (EPFL, Laussane, Zurich),
Arie Segev (UC-Berkeley)
Donald Tiedeman (AT&T)
Mike Papazoglou (Queens, Australia)

Authors are invited to submit papers, proposals for tutorials and
exhibits concerned with theory or practice or both.  Papers should be
sent to the Program Chair, Dr. Bharat Bhargava, by May 15, 1993.

Send email to [e-mail] to receive an automatic reply with a
full copy of the Call for Papers and to [e-mail] to
receive a copy of the CIKM-92 program.


                     CALL FOR PAPERS
             Second International Conference on
            Information and Knowledge Management
                   November 1 - 5, 1993
           Double Tree Hotel, Washington D.C., USA

Sponsored by ISCA in cooperation with AAAI, ACM (Pending Approval),
IEEE, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

The conference provides an international forum for presentation and
discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well
as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. Authors are invited to
submit papers, proposals for tutorials and proposals for exhibits
concerned with theory or practice or both. The focus of the conference
includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Application of knowledge representation techniques to semantic data
modeling;  development and management of heterogeneous knowledge bases;
automatic acquisition of data and knowledge bases especially from raw text;
object-oriented DBMS; optimization techniques; transaction management;
high performance OLTP systems; security techniques; performance evaluation;
hypermedia; unconventional applications; parallel database systems;
physical and logical database design; data and knowledge sharing;
interchange and interoperability; cooperation in heterogenous systems;
domain modeling and ontology-building; knowledge discovery in databases;
information storage and retrieval and interface technology.

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

All submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter containing a list
of all authors, their affiliations, telephone numbers, electronic mail
addresses, and fax telephone numbers. Papers should be at most 20 double
spaced pages and must include an abstract of 100-150 words with five
keywords. All submissions will be reviewed and will be judged with
respect to quality and relevance.  Authors must submit 7 copies of each
paper, tutorial or exhibit proposal to the program chairman:

Prof. Bharat Bhargava
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University
West LaFayette, Indiana, 47907
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

For more information about the conference (as opposed to paper
submissions), send e-mail to [e-mail]

STUDENT PAPER AWARD

The author of the best student paper will receive an award for his/her
submission.  To be eligible, the student must be the first author and
primary contributor to the paper.  The cover letter must identify the
paper as a candidate for this competition.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper/tutorial/exhibit submission:  May 15, 1993
Notification of acceptance:  July 15, 1993
Camera ready papers due: September 1, 1993


STEERING COMMITTEE
Bruce Blum
Tim Finin
Keith Humenik
David Jefferson
E. K. Park
Yelena Yesha

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Tim Finin
Yelena Yesha

PROGRAM CHAIR
Bharat Bhargava

PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS
Nabil Adam
Rafael Alonso
Jay Gowens
Sushil  Jajodia
P. A. D. De Maine
Kia Makki
Chris Overton
Niki Pissinou

EUROPEAN VICE CHAIR
Hans Schek

AWARD VICE CHAIR
Stanley Su

PUBLICITY VICE CHAIR
Arie Segev

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS VICE CHAIR
Keith Humenik

TUTORIAL CHAIR
Charles Nicholas

TREASURER
E. K. Park

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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 15:15:19 GMT
From: Hartmut Frommert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Gibbons outlines Space Station redesign guidance [Release 93-64] (Forwarded)
Newsgroups: sci.space

From sci.space.news:

>        Gibbons reiterated that, "President Clinton is committed to the
>redesigned space station and to making every effort to preserve the science,
>the technology and the jobs that the space station program represents.
>However, he also is committed to a space station that is well managed and one
>that does not consume the national resources which should be used to invest
>in the future of this industry and this nation."

That appears rather strange: I always thought of spaceflight (in particular
including SSF, but same in particular for planetary/lunar research and
scientific satellites) as a future investment. So what are those
"investments" there sources should be consumed with ??

just wondering ..
-
  Hartmut Frommert
  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 12:43:32 GMT
From: fred j mccall 575-3539 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hoosier eccentricity (was Re: Quaint US Archaisms)
Newsgroups: sci.space

In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:

>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
>> In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
>> [Converting to metric would be good but...]
>>>
>>>           Don't get me wrong, coming from the land without daylight savings
>>>           time, I understand the need to hold on to what always was even if
>>>           it does not make much sense.  The Indiana Senate recently
>>>           defeated yet another attempt to drag us into 20 century time, to
>>>           the collective sigh of Hoosiers everywhere.  If we are to be
>>>           stereotyped as rubes we want it to at least be eccentric rubes.
>>
>> Don't worry, Tom.  I think "Indiana Pi" secured that reputation firmly
>> and forever, back in the last century.
>>
>> Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey
>> Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

>Hey Wild Bill,
>Do you mean the old Hoosier bromide: Pi R not square!  Pie are round,
>cornbread R square?  If not then I guess I need some schooling on my
>own state's history.

I believe he means attempts in the past by your legislature to
regulate the value of pi *by law* to be 3 (or 9, depending on the
story) because the round number would be easier to work with.

>I'd say e-mail me the answer but it is obvious from these flamers that
>use their keyboards as aids in onanism and not discourse, that bandwidth
>is no problem in this newsgroup.  If they can use hundreds of lines
>in odes to their egos, surely we can use 50 or 60 on goofiness.

Gee, you want to play too, Tom?  Must be something about that first
name . . .

--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 13:03:42 GMT
From: fred j mccall 575-3539 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Plans, absence therof
Newsgroups: sci.space

In <1pvhhm$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Pat) writes:


>I know there are always disputes on people even wearing campaign buttons to work
>and i have heard of disputes on  passing out campaign literature even
>when off federal property.

The military doesn't permit campaign buttons (because you are at work
and it is, after all, a uniform).  There isn't a problem with campaign
literature, but you have to be away from Federal property (they would
probably get sticky about you standing right outside the gate, for
example, even though you are not technically *on* the base.

>I don't know what the military rules are,  but I've noted a strong
>tendency for them to avoid getting close in any way to local political
>battles.

The tendency is there, but it's not enforced by rules.  There is one
more caveat to what I mentioned earlier, though.  You can't publicly
oppose the military policy of the United States government, criticize
it, etc., once you are above a certain level.  Generals have been
fired and/or resigned over this one.  I'm not sure if this is a
written rule or if it's just a very strong tradition (which tend to
amount to the same thing in the military), since I've never been an
Admiral.

>When i was in,  i got cautioned for  chatting with some strikers, while
>in uniform.  Possible perceptions of being seen supporting a local
>employee strike.

You were in uniform.  That's a no-no.

>Maybe Mary or Ron  can comment on what the rules are?

Yes, it might be interesting to know.  I'm rather surprised that they
use the Hatch Act to keep you Beltway types out of local politics.  I
would have expected the reasoning to be somewhat different.

>The rules keep changing.   Outside jobs have been a bit
>questionable at times,  although a lot of groups use the washington post
>rule.  "Can the action withstand  being on the cover of the Post".

All it's ever taken in the military is Command approval of the second
job.  Of course, there are some jobs that they simply are not going to
approve to avoid any apparent conflicts of interest.

>Yeah, but what if the organization was using the employee to give
>advanced access to not yet public information?   It creates
>teh specter of conflict of Interest.   Let employees  moonlight
>for areas further away from their government jobs.  it's simpler.

He can't do that.  It's that simple.  Like I said, it can't be with an
organization which directly impacts his organization or which could
change his funding or things like that.  It seems obvious, of course,
that he also can't violate security and similar things; that's more an
ethical violation than Hatch Act.

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"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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