On Thursday 29 May 2008, Richard Loosemore wrote: > Interesting, but I am araid that whenever I see someone report a > project to collect all the world's knowledge in a nice, centralized > format (Cyc, and Daughters-of-Cyc) I cannot help but think of one of > the early chapters in Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, were Wilkins, > Leibnitz and others are trying to form a universal grammar in which > all the world's facts can be organized in such a way that a > (essentially) a thinking machine can be built.
I'm going to basically come out and assert that the missing piece to those projects was *functionality*, i.e. in terms of automation and computation. The idea of having it all in one format so that we know what's there is great, but it has to be usable, and sorting through it by hand is kinda pointless, so what are we going to *do* with the repositories? http://heybryan.org/exp.html is a solution to that. I wasn't aware that the NIST had a project going for an open ontology repository, I need to get in touch with them. - Bryan ________________________________________ http://heybryan.org/ ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
