I think Microsoft has pulled Mindnet. I could not find it from the links supplied. Perhaps they are getting ready to release something for $$. "Ken Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Terrence Brannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hmore.edu> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Project Earth 08/22/2001 08:13 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Goddard) wrote: >>The objective of Project Earth is to build a database of factual information >>relevant to any aspect of life by collating voluntary contributions made by >>project participants. > >Does anyone remember the name of the project that tried to >program a database with the equivelant knowledge of a three >year-old child? It's still running, after I think 30 years. One should have a look at MindNet, from Microsoft. It's a similar project, but instead of needing hand-entered facts, it gets facts by reading dictionaries. Since Microsoft already had big natural language parsers (the grammar checker in Word), it was natural to re-use them for reading dictionaries. ------------------- ------------------- Ken Williams Last Bastion of Euclidity [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Math Forum