xwd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Robert C. Boenne) (11/07/90)
Does anyone know about a very large and long project undertaken to program a computer with enough knowledge so that it will "think" using frames? My AI teacher from last year mentioned it once and I can't remember: who is doing it, and at what university that it is being done. Any information is appreciated. -Robert
rapaport@acsu.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) (11/07/90)
In article <16197@mentor.cc.purdue.edu xwd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Robert C. Boenne) writes:
Does anyone know about a very large and long project undertaken to program
a computer with enough knowledge so that it will "think" using frames?
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Try:
Bobrow, Daniel G.; Winograd, Terry; & The KRL Research Group (1977),
``Experience with KRL-0: One Cycle of a Knowledge Representation
Language,'' Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on
ArtificialIntelligence (IJCAI-77, MIT) (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann):
213-222.minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky) (11/07/90)
In article <16197@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> xwd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Robert C. Boenne) writes: > >Does anyone know about a very large and long project undertaken to program >a computer with enough knowledge so that it will "think" using frames? >My AI teacher from last year mentioned it once and I can't remember: who is >doing it, and at what university that it is being done. This must be the CYC project at MCC, Austin Texas. It is described in a recent book, "Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems, Douglas B. Lenat and R.V.Guha, Addison-Wesly, 1990. The CYC data base is composed of frames, called "units", which can have all sorts of other data structures and procedures attached to thm -- including many kinds of inference-making and reasoning-by-analogy mechanisms. The system is too large to summarize, and is still lacking in many types of commonsense knowledge, so it is hard to evaluate at this point. But it appears to be the only such project ever attempted. (That is, since Aristotle's project.)
jacob@latcs1.oz.au (Jacob L. Cybulski) (11/07/90)
>>Does anyone know about a very large and long project undertaken to program >>a computer with enough knowledge so that it will "think" using frames? > > This must be the CYC project at MCC, Austin Texas. A number of articles discussing the CYC project have recently appeared in ACM Communications, Vol 33, No 8, August 1990. Jacob