SpaceWikiSpaceWiki –– A A LivingLiving CollaborativeCollaborative EnvironmentEnvironment

John DeMello Air Force Research Labs Synopsis

• Half Life of Knowledge •Why ? • So What? So What? •SpaceWiki – Exists in theory, not on paper.

vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 2 Knowledge and Exponential Decay

• The Half Life of Knowledge ~ 3 Years –Moore’s Law – Kurzweil’s Law

• The Petabyte-Era is here – But data is chaotic – Data is selective

vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 3 So What is a Wiki?

Wiki (wĭ’kē or wē’kē): A collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it. Derived from the Hawaiian word “wiki” meaning quick

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“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” -

vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 5 Why Wiki?

vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 6 Meh, So What?

“We don’t know what we know” -

- September 11th - Did you get the memo? - “Great” Meeting… - The Management

vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 7 What Has Wiki Done for Me?

• Intellipedia – Chlorine gas in IEDs – 2006 NIE on Nigeria • Diplopedia – Helping form foreign policy • FalconWiki – FalconSat payload

vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 8 The SpaceWiki

- Living - Grassroots - Instant - Centralized - Interconnected

vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 9 Shrek… not CHREC

• “Ogres are like onions, they have layers…” • SpaceWiki is like an onion UHF Comm Spotbeams / Algorithms Transponder Data Benchmarks

Radiation Effects

vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 10 Why SpaceWiki?

• Adhoc Cycle – “Elephant in Room” • Relate research to systems • Encourage young contributors • The ultimate IPT

vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 11 Where to Start?

• Conceptual systems •How to RHBD • RadCat •Benchmarking

vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 12 Where is it?

• Build upon Intellipedia –Unclass/ FOUO –SECRET • Build ITAR site

vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 13 The Tipping Point

• Success depends on use •Incentives • Goals

vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 14 How Work?

• No special language necessary • Community created & edited • Senior editors review periodically • Administrators limit vandalism • No idea is too stupid! Be BOLD!

vSpaceWiki 5.0 – MAPLD 2008 15 Non Linear Systems 101

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Questions?

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