Theme: Multi-faceted modeling, design, implementation, operation, networked, coherently interoperable, distributed applications.
A Technology for Understanding for the support of all that!
Goal: To be able to say of other participants (in a NIST Advanced Technology Program coalition proposal):
"There is such allegiance to an idea that they put their own resources behind it."
Ruth Davis, Consultant; past Director, National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) Institute for Computer Science and Technology (ICST); and later, DDR&E Director of Defense Research and Engineering; and later Member of the Board of Directors, SofTech, Inc.
A new way. Need to emphasize values of bringing people together rapidly on common ground and understand what’s key. Lends itself to that before things are set. In past we have seen the need for something like this, but none was available. Pragmatic. Transcends a particular area where we think technology would transition. Generic. Not a specific Technology, but a generic one. Education and Training.
Goal: Help people do what they want to do better than they thought they’d be able to do!
Jorge Rodriguez, MIT alum and close colleague, and SofTech Vice President, once said:
"Any method that has to be practiced well to be successful, is useless!"