RE: Project Earth

2001-08-22 Thread Lee Goddard
>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

RE: Project Earth

2001-08-22 Thread William Thompson
I think the project you are referring to is Doug Lenat's CYC. They have a web page http://www.cyc.com/ There's also an openCYC, a smaller version, that is described at http://www.opencyc.org/ You're right, this project has been going on for a long time. They are supposedly going to release ver.

Re: Project Earth

2001-08-22 Thread John Porter
Lee Goddard wrote: > Looks like a better grammar is required. Indeed; I was wondering why it was decided that a new language was required at all. There are already plenty to choose from, including some very well designed ones, like KM and KRSL. See http://www.cs.utexas.edu/mfkb/related.html

RE: Project Earth

2001-08-22 Thread Ken Williams
[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 data

Re: Project Earth

2001-08-22 Thread Steve Vertigan
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 th

RE: Anyone working in bioinformatics?

2001-08-22 Thread David M Guzak
Kevin, Is this why you chose the signoff "firebomb" ? >From my understanding your first post was saying there was a problem with terminology. Then you go on to say "AI is dead" and over-promised and in your next post proudly proclaim to be one of those AI guys. I know this is quoting you out