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Cyc is a long-term artificial intelligence project that aims to create a comprehensive knowledge base of common sense facts and rules about how the world works. The project was founded by Doug Lenat in 1984 and is based at the Cycorp company in Austin, Texas.
The knowledge base of Cyc is known as the Cyc ontology and is designed to represent a wide range of concepts and relationships that are important for understanding the world. It includes information about objects, events, and relationships in the physical world, as well as abstract concepts such as emotions, intentions, and beliefs.
Cyc is designed to be a general-purpose knowledge base that can be used to support a wide range of artificial intelligence applications, such as natural language processing, reasoning, and decision-making. It is intended to provide a foundation for creating intelligent systems that can understand and reason about the world in a human-like way.
Douglas Lenat is the CEO of Cycorp, Inc. and is a well-known researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. He is best known for his work on the Cyc project, which is a long-term artificial intelligence project that aims to create a comprehensive knowledge base of common sense facts and rules about how the world works.
Lenat received his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1979 and has been working in the field of artificial intelligence for more than four decades. In addition to his work on Cyc, he has also made significant contributions to the fields of automated reasoning and machine learning.
Lenat has received numerous awards and honors for his work in artificial intelligence, including the AAAI/ACM Allen Newell Award and the IJCAI Research Excellence Award. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Resources:
- cyc.com .. knowledge base and reasoning technology
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See also:
AIML & OpenCyc | Cycorp 2011 | Cycorp 2012 | Cycorp 2013 | OpenCyc & Dialog Systems | OpenCyc & Natural Language 2011 | OpenCyc & Natural Language 2012 | OpenCyc & Natural Language 2013 | ResearchCyc
- CMU Distinguished Lecture Series – Dr. Douglas Lenat
- Computers with common sense | Doug Lenat | TEDxYouth@Austin
- Henry Lieberman – Response to Doug Lenat’s Talk at Future of Health Technology Summit fhti.org
- FutureofHealthTech – Using Deep Models of Medicine.Douglas Lenat PhD, Cycorp FHTI
- GeekAustin 07 – Michael Witbrock – Cycorp
- OpenCyc installation on Ubuntu