Invitation to Plan for Zero
We assume you are accessing this page because you have been invited to participate
in a planning meeting for a candidate program in ITO: Zero latency: High Performance access to
Universal, but relevant, information. If you
have not, and think that you should be, contact
by email to
email to: gio@cs.stanford.edu,
otherwise move on.
We expect about 20-30 participants.
Background
Everything is at a very early stage. Three meetings are planned, one on the east coast,
one in Texas (the south coast?), and one on the west coast. This note refers to the west coast one:
Zero-work.
Contact Jsalasin@darpa.mil for information about the other meetings.
Other material on the page gives some background. Some of the material
from DARPA has been hard to read, sorry. Our current draft is best
read as Plan 0 (html) draft.
Two related figures are available as Zero-Hyper (html)
Other formats and some other stuff is reachable via my Work-in-Progress
Page.
Objective
Generate material that John Salasin (or a successor) can defend up the DARPA hierarchy.
That requires- A Clear objective
- Novel and doable Technology
- Credible participants
- Transition paths (that may be mainly within DARPA)
A relevant quote
Heilmeyer's Catechism:
1 What is the problem, why is it hard?
2 How is it solved today?
3 * What is the new technical idea; why can we succeed now?
4 What is the impact if successful?
5 How will the program be organized?
6 How will intermediate results be generated.
7 How will you measure progress?
8 What will it cost?
[George Heilmeier, ex ARPA director - one of the best ones]
From my stay at ARPA I have a slide show, with some slides addressing program
creation:
My Vacation at ARPA.
Logistics
The ZERO-work meeting will be held at SRI International in Menlo Park CA
on January 27 and 28 (Tuesday and Wednesday). We will start Tuesday at 10am, to give
out-of-towners a chance to Fly in. Comments ?
We will finish at noon on Wednesday, to let people, including John Salasin, get back on planes.
Directions
Menlo park is about equi-distant from
SFO (north) and San Jose (south-east of SRI), 40 minutes should do it if the weather holds up.
From the north take the Marsh road exit of 101 to end, go west to Middlefield, south again to Ravenswood.
From the south take Willow road exit of 101 about a mile, go west to Middlefield, north again to Ravenswood.
SRI is on the left, halfway up the block. We will announce the room etc later.
More info can be obtained from SRI web pages.
More to come