9.1 Proposal: What's an "Activity"???

[Michael Stone]

I've long wondered about the ambiguities and puzzles inherent in the
notion of 'activity' rather than 'application'. Therefore, I'd like to
talk about them!

I'll also speak about what I learned from recent experiments that I've
conducted writing activity-like software for helping humans to summarize
mailing lists and, in so doing, will touch tangentially on some of the
criticisms I rendered in my previous "Remarks on the Work of Sugar"
commentary.

Michael