Subject: ITR Preproposal
Resent-Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 17:26:40 -0500
Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox <gcf@npac.syr.edu>
Resent-To: p_gcf@npac.syr.edu
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 99 21:47:54 -0800
From: Mark Smith <coyotewatch@earthlink.net>
To: "Geoffrey Fox" <gcf@npac.syr.edu>
CC: "John Rundle" <rundle@hopfield.colorado.edu>

Geoffrey,

I finally got to look over the ITR preproposal.  I think that it looks
quite good.  I have only a couple of very minor comments, so if it is too
late, no big deal.

In the outreach section, I've worked on the GPS technology educational
module with Jill and the teachers, so you could say that Jill and one of
the PI's already has experience with the educational outreach.  The
modules are used quite extensively at the college level and for
preservice teacher training and we've printed the first batch of CDs of a
beta release.

You might want to change Interactive data mining to Scientific
Datamining.  Also - datamining is one word.  The word datamining is
heavily used in commerce (e.g. detecting credit card fraud) and the
definition of it will probably be set by that field.  Scientific
datamining sets what we do apart from the larger field.

I liked the way the proposal read.  Thanks for all of your work on this.
It's been a bad couple of weeks for me.

At the moment I can't check my work e-mail at home so this address or
andreadonnellan@hotmail.com work better until Monday.

Andrea