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OpenCyc Brings Meaning to the Web
OpenCyca vast open-source knowledge base of concepts for the Web, was released publicly today by Cycorp, Inc. Using OpenCyc terms to represent Web content enables true semantic interoperability. While...
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Cyclpedia
Image via WikipediaBy popular demand, and also because we've always liked the idea of a Wikipedia with articles computers can understand, we've just added a large number of links from OpenCyc to...
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Musing
If you watch the OpenCyc Semantic Web main page as obsessively as we do, you may have noticed a new feature: a purplish box that displays random "thoughts" from Cyc, with the concepts linked to the...
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Twitterings
A few small scraps of news: First, Cyc now has a twitter account. You can follow its musings at @cyc_ai. So far, it's just a sort of stream of unconsciousness, but it'll get more interesting over...
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View ArticleLearn to use OpenCyc, and other LarKCs
The OpenCyc tutorial from ISWC 2008 is now available for your watching pleasure. In this tutorial you'll learn about the content and representation of Cyc, how to understand Cyc's content on the web...
View ArticleCyc 101: Introduction to Cyc & Ontological Engineering
Next Session: May 11th - May 13th, 2009 -- Austin, Texas.A key to semantic technologies is the ability to efficiently and accurately model knowledge. Ontological Engineering (OE), a term coined at...
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The Kindness of Recognition
Cycorp was proud and grateful to hear that AAAS has elected our founder, Dr Doug Lenat, a fellow of the AAAS. AAAS was founded 151 years ago, and is the publisher of "Science", one of the world's best...
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Wolfram Alpha
Stephen Wolfram generously gave me a two-hour demo of Wolfram Alpha last evening, and I was quite positively impressed. As he said, it's not AI, and not aiming to be, so it shouldn't be measured by...
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Hello Worlds!
We’re not yet where we’d like to be, but we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to give developers access to the power of semantic computing with Cyc. You can get OpenCyc 2.0, which is cleaner and...
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I'll Take Medicine, for 100, Alex
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeAnswering specific questions is in the news, with the rise in popularity of Quora, the social-question answering site, and the upcoming attempt by Watson, an IBM...
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