SWSWPC 2004 Panel Discussion

 

Do Academic Research and Industrial Development

Differ in their Role and Approach

Regarding the Use of Semantics for Web Processes?

 

Moderator

 

Panelists

  1. Shishir Garg (France Telecom R&D)

  2. Jianwen Su (University of California, Santa Barbara)

  3. Jeff Pollock (Network Inference, Ltd.)

  4. Ryusuke Masuoka (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc.)

 

Issues: Academic Research vs. Industrial Development

  1. Do they differ?

  2. Should they differ?

  3. What are the main differences?

  4. If they do not differ enough, will intellectual pursuit and innovation be stifled?

  5. If they differ too much, will academic research become abstruse and possibly irrelevant.

  6. Pitfalls to be avoided?

  7. Facilitators of long-term cooperative R&D.

 

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