JESS: [Jess] ORF 2009 Keynote Speaker Announcement
[With Permission, of course]Greetings:This will be our penultimate email about October Rules Fest 2009 - but, even though it follows closely on the heels of the previous email, it's necessary. And it's a goodie. OurKeynote Speakerfor ORF 2009 isTom Cooper, co-author of "Rule-Based Programming in OPS5" by Tom Cooper and Nancy Wogrin. (Thanks to Luke Voss and Andrew Waterman for making a last-minute agenda shuffle possible.) The book is long since out-of-print but is still available in slightly used condition by many of Amazon's associated book resellers. (I saw only four "used but in good condition" copies at Amazon itself.) When Dr. Forgy and I were working on our first project together back in 1998, I asked him what would be the one book that a person might buy to get a good foundation on rulebased programming. This was it and I have used it many times in my classes that I teach on the subject. Side note: I also use Gary Riley's book - still in publication - to teach CLIPS (and Jess) and many others for reference; such as "Jess In Action" by Dr. Ernest Friedman-Hill or the Buchanan-Shortliffe magnum opus on the MYCIN project. You can see my comlete list athttp://www.kbsc.com/aibooks.htmlfor more of them. Even though some (most?) of the books are out-of-print none are really out-of-date.STUDENTScan now register for ORF 2009 for only$150per personWITH a valid photo ID and a CURRENT student photo ID card.Last year we priced the whole thing at student rates and did not get a single student registeration from the USA. (We had one from the UK.) We have had several inquiries this year, some from as far away as California, and decided to put the student rate back online. Just click on the regular ORF registration link and it will give you the instructions for the special student registration process.We have two (yep, 2 of them)BOOT CAMPSthat are co-located with ORF in The Adolphus Hotel. There will be theJess Boot Camp(taught by Jason Morris) and theDrools Boot Camp(taught by Mark Proctor and Edson Tirelli). Even though both boot camps are headed by their individual instructors, we are posting the curriculum of both on-line with the ORF agenda. (Topics are subject to change.) Both camps have done a lot of work the past few days one defining what to expect from each of them. If you like, you really CAN attend just one of the boot camps (for a small fee to cover the cost of the meeting room and catered coffee) and not attend ORF - but why??? ORF attendees can attend either one of the boot camps free of charge.I will try and send another email before the 15th but in case that I don't, remember that thespecial $129 / night room rateforOctober Rules Fest 2009 attendeesat The Adolphus willEXPIREon the 16th !!So I urge that if you have not already registered for ORF as well as reserved a room at The Adolphus, please do so this week if possible.BTW, thanks to ALL of you who have already signed up and/or have registered at The Adolphus. The rooms are filling up. Boot Camps are filling up. And, thankfully, October Rules Fest is filling up with some great folks looking for answers to some really perplexing problems. So, if you have NOT registered, do so now. If you know of some students who want to attend, put them in touch with Chelanie who can get them registered. If all you want is one of the two greatest boot camps in the world, you can sign up just for that. But you need to sign up now!!SDGJames OwenFounder October Rules FestSenior Consultant / Architect KBSChttp://www.kbsc.comhttp://www.OctoberRulesFest.orgTwitter: OctRulesFestBlogs:http://JavaRules.blogspot.com[Rulebased Systems Blog]http://ORF2009.blogspot.com[October Rules Fest Blog]http://exscg.blogspot.com/[Expert Systems Consulting Group Blog]"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."Sir Isaac Newton in a letter to Robert Hooke, 5 Feb 1676Come to October Rules Fest and stand on the shoulders of the Giants of the industry; if only for a week.
JESS: ORF 2009 Jess Boot Camp
Greetings: [With Permission] October Rules Fest is honored to once again have Jason Morris as one of our speakers this year. As always, Jason is well prepared and has a topic of great interest to all concerned. IN ADDITION, this year Jason is Co-Locating the Jess Boot Camp at The Adolphus Hotel with ORF 2009. For those who don't know, Jason is a excellent instructor as well and is the official Jess instructor for Sandia Labs. If you want to attend ONLY the boot camp, that is possible for a small fee to help pay for the room, coffee, etc. ORF 2009 attendees will be able to attend JBC for FREE. Below is the proable syllabus even though it might change slightly between now and October 25th: Day 1 Hour Topic - 1 Jess Language Fundamentals 2 Creating Facts, Patterns, and Rules I 3 Creating Facts, Patterns, and Rules II 4 Jess API Fundamentals 5 Controlling Rule-Based Applications 6 Designing a Simple Diagnostic Expert System 7 Writing the Diagnostic Knowledge Base 8 Writing the Control Knowledge Base Day 2 Hour Topic - 1 Writing the Application Code I 2 Writing the Application Code II 3 Attaching a User Interface 4 Question and Answers If you have any problems with registering for JBC, ORF 2009 or getting registered at the hotel, please let Chelanine or me know right away. SDG James Owen Founder October Rules Fest Senior Consultant / Architect KBSC http://www.kbsc.com http://www.OctoberRulesFest.org Twitter: OctRulesFest Blogs: http://JavaRules.blogspot.com [Rulebased Systems Blog] http://ORF2009.blogspot.com [October Rules Fest Blog] http://exscg.blogspot.com/ [Expert Systems Consulting Group Blog] If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Sir Isaac Newton in a letter to Robert Hooke, 5 Feb 1676 Come to October Rules Fest and stand on the shoulders of the Giants of the industry; if only for a week.
RE: JESS: ORF 2009 - question on dates
Whoops - ignore my last email. Finally found the starting date on the registration page: Monday Oct 26th. Ron From: Taylor, Ronald C Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:09 AM To: 'jess-users@sandia.gov' Cc: Taylor, Ronald C Subject: RE: JESS: ORF 2009 - question on dates Hello Mr. Owen, Checked your web site - didn't see the exact dates for the Fest. On which Monday does it start in October? Cheers, Ron Taylor ___ Ronald Taylor, Ph.D. Computational Biology Bioinformatics Group Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 902 Battelle Boulevard P.O. Box 999, MSIN K7-90 Richland, WA 99352 USA Office: 509-372-6568 Email: ronald.tay...@pnl.gov www.pnl.gov From: owner-jess-us...@sandia.gov [mailto:owner-jess-us...@sandia.gov] On Behalf Of James Owen Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 12:26 PM To: jess-users@sandia.gov Subject: JESS: ORF 2009 Importance: High Greetings to the Jess Users Group: To those who attended October Rules Fest last year, and those who did not, we're doing it all over again - only better. Counting the half-day of tutorials on Monday (if we have enough sign up for it) this year will be four full days of top-notch speakers, the absolute best-of-breed that can be found in the rulebase world. For example, returning to ORF this year will be Dr. Charles Forgy (inventor of Rete, Rete 2 and Rete III), Gary Riley (inventor of CLIPS), Mark Proctor (inventor of Drools), Carlos Serrano-Morales (inventor of Advisor), Carole Ann Berlioz-Matignon (Early Advisor designer), Jason Morris (Jess guru and advisor on the Jess mailing list), Dr. Leon Kappelman (University North Texas, Enterprise Architecture), Dr. Daniel Levine (University Texas Arlington, Neural Networks), Dr. Rick Hicks (Texas AM, Validation Verification), Greg Barton (Testing and applications), Rolando Hernandez (Model Driven Approach to Rules), Dr. Jacob Feldman (CBP using OpenRules) and Dr. Gopal Gupta (University Texas Dallas, Constraint Based Programming). New to the group of ORF speakers this year will be John Zachman (Zachman Enterprise Architecture), Daniel Brookshier (UML Guru from No Magic), Eric Charpentier (Ruebase expert) and Dr. Hafedh Mili (Rulebase Consultant and professor at UQAM) from Canada, Paul Vincent (Tibco CEP guru), Charles Young (CEP guru from the UK), Luke Voss (Rulebase guru), Manny Gandarillas (applications), David Holz (Rulebase Patterns) and Andrew Waterman (Modeling and Network Gaming using Rules). The Agenda has been set. We are negotiating with two hotels, both of which are located in the middle of the downtown-Dallas restaurant district, in order to get the best deal for you - meaning the speakers and the attendees. For either location, we already have selected a pub-night location for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We should have that resolved within the week and it will be posted to the web site. Considering that you will be able to chat with the founders of the rulebased world as well as those who contribute to its advancements every day, you would get more in the way of training than if you attended ten vendor schools. Not that the vendor schools are not necessary - but this is a once-a-year adventure that crosses all lines of rulebase theory, tools and applications. This is where you will discover and discuss radically new advances in rulebased systems and have the God-Fathers and God-Mothers of the rulebased world over the past 40 years to help you understand how we got here. There is only one drawback - by getting a first class, quality hotel in the middle of the restaurant district for the same room price that we had last year, we will have a limited number of seats. Considering that we have 30 speakers, we will be able to accommodate only 170 attendees or so. Therefore, it will have to be first come, first served on attendee registration. Remember, you still get the 20% discount for early sign-up. AND, there is no charge for the tutorials - I think that we are the only conference NOT to charge for tutorials and I would like to keep it that way. But, we still need for you to sign up for tutorials IF AND ONLY IF you actually are going to attend them. Remember, we will have to rent the room and provide refreshments for the tutorials just like the main conference so, if you are not going to be there, please don't sign up for them. Finally I would like to point out that we are NOT professional conference people - just rulebase consultants getting together with rulebase vendors, rulebase customers and other rulebase consultants to share what we know with each other, to better understand the inner workings of a rulebase and to help make cutting-edge, technological advances in the industry more easily understood by all. Last year you asked us for more QA time - so we have allocated daily QA sessions at the end of each day. Last year you asked us to find
JESS: ORF 2009
Greetings to the Jess Users Group: To those who attended October Rules Fest last year, and those who did not, we're doing it all over again - only better. Counting the half- day of tutorials on Monday (if we have enough sign up for it) this year will be four full days of top-notch speakers, the absolute best- of-breed that can be found in the rulebase world. For example, returning to ORF this year will be Dr. Charles Forgy (inventor of Rete, Rete 2 and Rete III), Gary Riley (inventor of CLIPS), Mark Proctor (inventor of Drools), Carlos Serrano-Morales (inventor of Advisor), Carole Ann Berlioz-Matignon (Early Advisor designer), Jason Morris (Jess guru and advisor on the Jess mailing list), Dr. Leon Kappelman (University North Texas, Enterprise Architecture), Dr. Daniel Levine (University Texas Arlington, Neural Networks), Dr. Rick Hicks (Texas AM, Validation Verification), Greg Barton (Testing and applications), Rolando Hernandez (Model Driven Approach to Rules), Dr. Jacob Feldman (CBP using OpenRules) and Dr. Gopal Gupta (University Texas Dallas, Constraint Based Programming). New to the group of ORF speakers this year will be John Zachman (Zachman Enterprise Architecture), Daniel Brookshier (UML Guru from No Magic), Eric Charpentier (Ruebase expert) and Dr. Hafedh Mili (Rulebase Consultant and professor at UQAM) from Canada, Paul Vincent (Tibco CEP guru), Charles Young (CEP guru from the UK), Luke Voss (Rulebase guru), Manny Gandarillas (applications), David Holz (Rulebase Patterns) and Andrew Waterman (Modeling and Network Gaming using Rules). The Agenda has been set. We are negotiating with two hotels, both of which are located in the middle of the downtown-Dallas restaurant district, in order to get the best deal for you - meaning the speakers and the attendees. For either location, we already have selected a pub-night location for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We should have that resolved within the week and it will be posted to the web site. Considering that you will be able to chat with the founders of the rulebased world as well as those who contribute to its advancements every day, you would get more in the way of training than if you attended ten vendor schools. Not that the vendor schools are not necessary - but this is a once-a-year adventure that crosses all lines of rulebase theory, tools and applications. This is where you will discover and discuss radically new advances in rulebased systems and have the God-Fathers and God-Mothers of the rulebased world over the past 40 years to help you understand how we got here. There is only one drawback - by getting a first class, quality hotel in the middle of the restaurant district for the same room price that we had last year, we will have a limited number of seats. Considering that we have 30 speakers, we will be able to accommodate only 170 attendees or so. Therefore, it will have to be first come, first served on attendee registration. Remember, you still get the 20% discount for early sign-up. AND, there is no charge for the tutorials - I think that we are the only conference NOT to charge for tutorials and I would like to keep it that way. But, we still need for you to sign up for tutorials IF AND ONLY IF you actually are going to attend them. Remember, we will have to rent the room and provide refreshments for the tutorials just like the main conference so, if you are not going to be there, please don't sign up for them. Finally I would like to point out that we are NOT professional conference people - just rulebase consultants getting together with rulebase vendors, rulebase customers and other rulebase consultants to share what we know with each other, to better understand the inner workings of a rulebase and to help make cutting-edge, technological advances in the industry more easily understood by all. Last year you asked us for more QA time - so we have allocated daily QA sessions at the end of each day. Last year you asked us to find a quieter place for pub nights because there was more QA (and lots more A) at the pub than in the conference itself. So, we did. Last year you asked us to find a hotel closer to the restaurants. Well, point your Google Earth to 1400 Commerce Street in Dallas and just look at the restaurants close by. And that does not include all the ones that we will post later on the ORF web site after we have visited them and added them to the list. Anything from MacDonalds to The French Room (a five-star - three Michelin stars - restaurant). BTW, the trolley runs down the street of the hotel and connects to off- site parking so you don't have to negotiate downtown traffic. And there is a shuttle from the airport to the hotel. SDG James Owen Senior Consultant / Architect http://www.kbsc.com http://www.OctoberRulesFest.org This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Hamlet, Act 1, Scene III
Re: JESS: ORF 2009
BTW -- what are you going to do if you get more than 170 people wanting to sign up? On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:25 PM, James Owen jco2...@att.net wrote: Greetings to the Jess Users Group: To those who attended October Rules Fest last year, and those who did not, we're doing it all over again - Cheers, Jason -- --- Morris Technical Solutions LLC consult...@morris-technical-solutions.com (517) 304-5883
Re: JESS: ORF 2009
We'll have to shut down registration and tell them that we're full. What a nice problem to have after last year. SDG jco This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Hamlet, Act 1, Scene III http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/hamlet/hamlet.1.3.html On May 28, 2009, at 6:21 AM, Jason Morris wrote: BTW -- what are you going to do if you get more than 170 people wanting to sign up? On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:25 PM, James Owen jco2...@att.net wrote: Greetings to the Jess Users Group: To those who attended October Rules Fest last year, and those who did not, we're doing it all over again - Cheers, Jason -- --- Morris Technical Solutions LLC consult...@morris-technical-solutions.com (517) 304-5883
RE: JESS: ORF 2009 - question on dates
Hello Mr. Owen, Checked your web site - didn't see the exact dates for the Fest. On which Monday does it start in October? Cheers, Ron Taylor ___ Ronald Taylor, Ph.D. Computational Biology Bioinformatics Group Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 902 Battelle Boulevard P.O. Box 999, MSIN K7-90 Richland, WA 99352 USA Office: 509-372-6568 Email: ronald.tay...@pnl.gov www.pnl.gov From: owner-jess-us...@sandia.gov [mailto:owner-jess-us...@sandia.gov] On Behalf Of James Owen Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 12:26 PM To: jess-users@sandia.gov Subject: JESS: ORF 2009 Importance: High Greetings to the Jess Users Group: To those who attended October Rules Fest last year, and those who did not, we're doing it all over again - only better. Counting the half-day of tutorials on Monday (if we have enough sign up for it) this year will be four full days of top-notch speakers, the absolute best-of-breed that can be found in the rulebase world. For example, returning to ORF this year will be Dr. Charles Forgy (inventor of Rete, Rete 2 and Rete III), Gary Riley (inventor of CLIPS), Mark Proctor (inventor of Drools), Carlos Serrano-Morales (inventor of Advisor), Carole Ann Berlioz-Matignon (Early Advisor designer), Jason Morris (Jess guru and advisor on the Jess mailing list), Dr. Leon Kappelman (University North Texas, Enterprise Architecture), Dr. Daniel Levine (University Texas Arlington, Neural Networks), Dr. Rick Hicks (Texas AM, Validation Verification), Greg Barton (Testing and applications), Rolando Hernandez (Model Driven Approach to Rules), Dr. Jacob Feldman (CBP using OpenRules) and Dr. Gopal Gupta (University Texas Dallas, Constraint Based Programming). New to the group of ORF speakers this year will be John Zachman (Zachman Enterprise Architecture), Daniel Brookshier (UML Guru from No Magic), Eric Charpentier (Ruebase expert) and Dr. Hafedh Mili (Rulebase Consultant and professor at UQAM) from Canada, Paul Vincent (Tibco CEP guru), Charles Young (CEP guru from the UK), Luke Voss (Rulebase guru), Manny Gandarillas (applications), David Holz (Rulebase Patterns) and Andrew Waterman (Modeling and Network Gaming using Rules). The Agenda has been set. We are negotiating with two hotels, both of which are located in the middle of the downtown-Dallas restaurant district, in order to get the best deal for you - meaning the speakers and the attendees. For either location, we already have selected a pub-night location for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We should have that resolved within the week and it will be posted to the web site. Considering that you will be able to chat with the founders of the rulebased world as well as those who contribute to its advancements every day, you would get more in the way of training than if you attended ten vendor schools. Not that the vendor schools are not necessary - but this is a once-a-year adventure that crosses all lines of rulebase theory, tools and applications. This is where you will discover and discuss radically new advances in rulebased systems and have the God-Fathers and God-Mothers of the rulebased world over the past 40 years to help you understand how we got here. There is only one drawback - by getting a first class, quality hotel in the middle of the restaurant district for the same room price that we had last year, we will have a limited number of seats. Considering that we have 30 speakers, we will be able to accommodate only 170 attendees or so. Therefore, it will have to be first come, first served on attendee registration. Remember, you still get the 20% discount for early sign-up. AND, there is no charge for the tutorials - I think that we are the only conference NOT to charge for tutorials and I would like to keep it that way. But, we still need for you to sign up for tutorials IF AND ONLY IF you actually are going to attend them. Remember, we will have to rent the room and provide refreshments for the tutorials just like the main conference so, if you are not going to be there, please don't sign up for them. Finally I would like to point out that we are NOT professional conference people - just rulebase consultants getting together with rulebase vendors, rulebase customers and other rulebase consultants to share what we know with each other, to better understand the inner workings of a rulebase and to help make cutting-edge, technological advances in the industry more easily understood by all. Last year you asked us for more QA time - so we have allocated daily QA sessions at the end of each day. Last year you asked us to find a quieter place for pub nights because there was more QA (and lots more A) at the pub than in the conference itself. So, we did. Last year you asked us to find a hotel closer to the restaurants. Well, point your Google Earth to 1400 Commerce Street in Dallas and just look at the restaurants close
Re: JESS: ORF 2009 - question on dates
YIKES!! In all of our meddling with the page over and over and over, we must have omitted that. It will be there tonight. Thanks for catching that so obvious error that our pernicious, picayune panel of picky programmers missed. :-) Tutorials on Monday, October 26th, 2009 Conference on Tuesday, October 27, 2009, through Friday, October 30, 2009 SDG jco This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Hamlet, Act 1, Scene III http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/hamlet/hamlet.1.3.html On May 28, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Taylor, Ronald C wrote: Hello Mr. Owen, Checked your web site - didn't see the exact dates for the Fest. On which Monday does it start in October? Cheers, Ron Taylor ___ Ronald Taylor, Ph.D. Computational Biology Bioinformatics Group Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 902 Battelle Boulevard P.O. Box 999, MSIN K7-90 Richland, WA 99352 USA Office: 509-372-6568 Email: ronald.tay...@pnl.gov www.pnl.gov From: owner-jess-us...@sandia.gov [mailto:owner-jess- us...@sandia.gov] On Behalf Of James Owen Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 12:26 PM To: jess-users@sandia.gov Subject: JESS: ORF 2009 Importance: High Greetings to the Jess Users Group: To those who attended October Rules Fest last year, and those who did not, we're doing it all over again - only better. Counting the half-day of tutorials on Monday (if we have enough sign up for it) this year will be four full days of top-notch speakers, the absolute best-of-breed that can be found in the rulebase world. For example, returning to ORF this year will be Dr. Charles Forgy (inventor of Rete, Rete 2 and Rete III), Gary Riley (inventor of CLIPS), Mark Proctor (inventor of Drools), Carlos Serrano-Morales (inventor of Advisor), Carole Ann Berlioz-Matignon (Early Advisor designer), Jason Morris (Jess guru and advisor on the Jess mailing list), Dr. Leon Kappelman (University North Texas, Enterprise Architecture), Dr. Daniel Levine (University Texas Arlington, Neural Networks), Dr. Rick Hicks (Texas AM, Validation Verification), Greg Barton (Testing and applications), Rolando Hernandez (Model Driven Approach to Rules), Dr. Jacob Feldman (CBP using OpenRules) and Dr. Gopal Gupta (University Texas Dallas, Constraint Based Programming). New to the group of ORF speakers this year will be John Zachman (Zachman Enterprise Architecture), Daniel Brookshier (UML Guru from No Magic), Eric Charpentier (Ruebase expert) and Dr. Hafedh Mili (Rulebase Consultant and professor at UQAM) from Canada, Paul Vincent (Tibco CEP guru), Charles Young (CEP guru from the UK), Luke Voss (Rulebase guru), Manny Gandarillas (applications), David Holz (Rulebase Patterns) and Andrew Waterman (Modeling and Network Gaming using Rules). The Agenda has been set. We are negotiating with two hotels, both of which are located in the middle of the downtown-Dallas restaurant district, in order to get the best deal for you - meaning the speakers and the attendees. For either location, we already have selected a pub-night location for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We should have that resolved within the week and it will be posted to the web site. Considering that you will be able to chat with the founders of the rulebased world as well as those who contribute to its advancements every day, you would get more in the way of training than if you attended ten vendor schools. Not that the vendor schools are not necessary - but this is a once-a-year adventure that crosses all lines of rulebase theory, tools and applications. This is where you will discover and discuss radically new advances in rulebased systems and have the God-Fathers and God-Mothers of the rulebased world over the past 40 years to help you understand how we got here. There is only one drawback - by getting a first class, quality hotel in the middle of the restaurant district for the same room price that we had last year, we will have a limited number of seats. Considering that we have 30 speakers, we will be able to accommodate only 170 attendees or so. Therefore, it will have to be first come, first served on attendee registration. Remember, you still get the 20% discount for early sign-up. AND, there is no charge for the tutorials - I think that we are the only conference NOT to charge for tutorials and I would like to keep it that way. But, we still need for you to sign up for tutorials IF AND ONLY IF you actually are going to attend them. Remember, we will have to rent the room and provide refreshments for the tutorials just like the main conference so, if you are not going to be there, please don't sign up for them. Finally I would like to point out that we are NOT professional conference people - just rulebase consultants getting together with rulebase vendors, rulebase customers and other rulebase consultants to share what we know with each other, to better understand
