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
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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: [email protected]
www.pnl.gov
From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-jess-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Owen
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 12:26 PM
To: [email protected]
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 A&M, 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 Q&A time - so we have allocated
daily Q&A sessions at the end of each day.
Last year you asked us to find a quieter place for pub nights
because there was more Q&A (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
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/hamlet/hamlet.1.3.html
