<div dir="ltr">Thank you, Leo.<div><br></div><div>I have updated your input on Mike's contribution to the W3C-OWL work, as well as that from Kathy Laskey (offline) on Mike's role in the STIDS conference series and the Annual "Mike Dean Best Paper Award" that has recently been established to honor him.</div><div><br></div><div>The OntologWiki:MikeDean page now reads ...</div><div><br></div><div>//</div><div><h2 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif">Mike Dean <a class="" title="162M" href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean#nid162M" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(200,168,255)">(162M)</a></h2><pre style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="nid4EWM" id="nid4EWM"></a>Michael Dean
August 7, 1961 - November 19, 2014 <a class="" title="4EWM" href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean#nid4EWM" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(200,168,255)">(4EWM)</a></pre><pre style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="nid162N" id="nid162N"></a>Previously,
Principal Scientist
<b>Raytheon BBN Technologies</b>
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. <a class="" title="162N" href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean#nid162N" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(200,168,255)">(162N)</a></pre><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif"><a name="nid4EWN" id="nid4EWN"></a>Among other roles, Mike was <a class="" title="4EWN" href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean#nid4EWN" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(200,168,255)">(4EWN)</a></p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif"><li><a name="nid4EWO" id="nid4EWO"></a>a Member of the <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ONTOLOG" class="" style="text-decoration:none">ONTOLOG</a>_<a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BoT" class="" style="text-decoration:none">BoT</a> - <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ONTOLOG_BoardOfTrustees" class="" style="text-decoration:none">ONTOLOG_BoardOfTrustees</a> (2014) <a class="" title="4EWO" href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean#nid4EWO" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(200,168,255)">(4EWO)</a></li></ul><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif"><li><a name="nid4EWP" id="nid4EWP"></a>Chair of the <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DARPA" class="" style="text-decoration:none">DARPA</a> <a href="http://www.daml.org/" class="" style="text-decoration:none;border-width:thin;border-style:none none dotted">DAML Program</a>* <a href="http://www.daml.org/committee/" class="" style="text-decoration:none;border-width:thin;border-style:none none dotted">Joint Committee</a> (Joint US/EU ad hoc Agent Markup Language Committee) (*2000~2006) <a class="" title="4EWP" href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean#nid4EWP" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(200,168,255)">(4EWP)</a></li></ul><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif"><li><a name="nid4EWY" id="nid4EWY"></a>a member of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/" class="" style="text-decoration:none;border-width:thin;border-style:none none dotted">W3C Web Ontology Working Group</a> (2002-2004) <a class="" title="4EWY" href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean#nid4EWY" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(200,168,255)">(4EWY)</a><ul><li><a name="nid4EWZ" id="nid4EWZ"></a>this is the working group that developed the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/" class="" style="text-decoration:none;border-width:thin;border-style:none none dotted">OWL Web Ontology Language</a>, for which Mike was a co-editor <a class="" title="4EWZ" href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean#nid4EWZ" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(200,168,255)">(4EWZ)</a></li></ul></li></ul><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif"><li><a name="nid4EWQ" id="nid4EWQ"></a>Co-convener of the Open Ontology Repository (<a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository" class="" style="text-decoration:none;border-width:thin;border-style:none none dotted">OOR</a>) initiative (est. 2008) <a class="" title="4EWQ" href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean#nid4EWQ" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(200,168,255)">(4EWQ)</a></li></ul><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif"><li><a name="nid4EWT" id="nid4EWT"></a>a Member of the Steering Committee of the annual Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security (<a href="http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu/" class="" style="text-decoration:none;border-width:thin;border-style:none none dotted">STIDS</a>) (since the steering committee's founding in 2010) <a class="" title="4EWT" href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean#nid4EWT" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(200,168,255)">(4EWT)</a><ul><li><a name="nid4EWU" id="nid4EWU"></a>the <a href="http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu/" class="" style="text-decoration:none;border-width:thin;border-style:none none dotted">STIDS</a> Conference organizers have established an annual "Michael Dean Best Paper Award" to reward the paper that best exemplifies the qualities that made Mike such a productive and respected member of the semantic technology community. See:<a href="http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu/award2014.php" class="" style="text-decoration:none;border-width:thin;border-style:none none dotted">http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu/award2014.php</a> <a class="" title="4EWU" href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean#nid4EWU" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(200,168,255)">(4EWU)</a></li></ul></li></ul><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif"><li><a name="nid4EWR" id="nid4EWR"></a>Symposium Co-Chair for <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2013" class="" style="text-decoration:none">OntologySummit2013</a>: Ontology Evaluation Across the Ontology Lifecycle <a class="" title="4EWR" href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean#nid4EWR" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(200,168,255)">(4EWR)</a></li></ul><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif"><li><a name="nid4EWS" id="nid4EWS"></a>... he has made key contributions, and took on leadership roles in the semantic web, ontology and artificial intelligence communities - in the <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Ontolog" class="" style="text-decoration:none">Ontolog</a> <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SemanticWiki" class="" style="text-decoration:none">SemanticWiki</a>, <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EarthScienceOntolog" class="" style="text-decoration:none">EarthScienceOntolog</a> &<a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RulesReasoningLP" class="" style="text-decoration:none">RulesReasoningLP</a> mini-series'; <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOCoP" class="" style="text-decoration:none">SOCoP</a> (Spatial Ontology <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CoP" class="" style="text-decoration:none">CoP</a>); <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?W3C" class="" style="text-decoration:none">W3C</a>/<a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RIF" class="" style="text-decoration:none">RIF</a> Working Group; and the<a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit" class="" style="text-decoration:none">OntologySummit</a> program. <a class="" title="4EWS" href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean#nid4EWS" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(200,168,255)">(4EWS)</a></li></ul><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif"><a name="nid162O" id="nid162O"></a>see: <a href="http://purl.org/net/mdean/" class="" style="text-decoration:none;border-width:thin;border-style:none none dotted">http://purl.org/net/mdean/</a> <a class="" title="162O" href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean#nid162O" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(200,168,255)">(162O)</a></p></div><div>//</div><div><br></div><div>Regards. =ppy</div><div>--</div><div><br><br>On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Obrst, Leo J. <<a href="mailto:lobrst@mitre.org">lobrst@mitre.org</a>> wrote:<br>> Peter and all,<br>><br>> <br>><br>> Mike was also a member of the W3C Web Ontology Working Group that developed<br>> OWL, 2002-2004. See: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/">http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/</a>. He was also the<br>> co-editor of the OWL Web Ontology Language<br>><br>> Reference: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/">http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/</a>.<br>><br>> <br>><br>> It would be useful to update his namesake page with this too.<br>><br>> <br>><br>> Thanks,<br>><br>> Leo<br><br> <br>> From: <a href="mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@ontolog.cim3.net">ontolog-forum-bounces@ontolog.cim3.net</a><br>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@ontolog.cim3.net">ontolog-forum-bounces@ontolog.cim3.net</a>] On Behalf Of Barkmeyer,<br>> Edward J<br>> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 2:52 PM<br>> To: [ontolog-forum] ; OpenOntologyRepository-discussion<br>><br>><br>> Cc: Nancy Dean<br>> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Mike Dean<br>><br>> <br>><br>> Peter,<br>><br>> <br>><br>> What that list only hints at is the combination of technical ability,<br>> leadership, and dedication that Mike brought to the projects he led, and the<br>> patience, tolerance, and personal warmth that he contributed to their<br>> success . Mike was a hero of the AI community; he got talented and<br>> difficult people to work together to realize great ideas. As others have<br>> said, he will be missed by many of us, personally and professionally, and he<br>> will be long remembered.<br>><br>> <br>><br>> -Ed<br><br> <br>> From: <a href="mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@ontolog.cim3.net">ontolog-forum-bounces@ontolog.cim3.net</a><br>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@ontolog.cim3.net">ontolog-forum-bounces@ontolog.cim3.net</a>] On Behalf Of Peter Yim<br>> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 2:16 PM<br>> To: OpenOntologyRepository-discussion; [ontolog-forum]<br>> Cc: Nancy Dean<br>> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Mike Dean<br>><br>> <br>><br>> To help keep this kind and brilliant gentleman in our memories, I have just<br>> updated MikeDean's namesake page on the OntologWiki - see:<br>> <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean">http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MikeDean</a><br>><br>> <br>> ...[snip]...</div><div><br></div></div>