Re: Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry

Post       : Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry : 4
URL        : http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/02/14/theme-one-%e2%80%a2-a-program-of-inquiry-4/
Posted     : February 14, 2013 at 1:00 pm
Author     : Jon Awbrey

Re: Next Polymath Project • What, When, Where?
At: http://polymathprojects.org/2013/02/14/next-polymath-projects-what-when-where/

Here is a bit of data on the Theme One Program that I worked on all through the 1980s.
The aim was to develop fundamental algorithms and data structures to support an integrated
learning and reasoning interface.  I wrote up a pilot version of the program well enough to
get a Master’s degree out of it, but still haven’t gotten around to writing up the complete
documentation.  Below is a link to what I’ve put on the web so far.

• Project : Theme One Program
• http://mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey/Projects/Theme_One_Program

In a way, I see this project as being related to Tim Gowers’ Proposal on
the Mathematics of the Origin of Life, since one of the reasons for doing
this work was to get information about the threshold of systems-theoretic
complexity necessary to support a capacity for inquiry.

• http://polymathprojects.org/2009/11/08/proposal-tim-gowers-the-origin-of-life/
• http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/polymath-and-the-origin-of-life/

Toward the end of the 1980s, and especially as I returned to grad school
in systems engineering during the 1990s, my work on this program gradually
morphed into a broader study of what I began calling “Inquiry Driven Systems”.
The conceptual background for this study is outlined in the following proposal.

• Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems
• http://mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey/Essays/Prospects_For_Inquiry_Driven_Systems

More discussion to follow as I get time …

Jon

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