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2002-02-13-opencycDelays

CREATED BY chris • LAST EDITED BY chris 2395 days AGO

[create Doug Lenat], sich für die jahrelange Verschiebung der OpenCyc-Freigabe rechtfertigend: "A small percentage of 600 person-years worth of effort is still quite a large project."

"Q: Do you still expect OpenCyc to have a major impact on the Web, on software development and on the world?

"A: Of course. As we've said for almost 20 years now, something LIKE Cyc is needed for semantic sharing of knowledge across applications, to enable semantic integration to happen automatically (in contrast to n-squared labor-intensive post-hoc methods like data warehousing, and in contrast to the impossible requirement that the authors of the separate bodies of individual content work out detailed shared semantics ahead of time.) In modern terms, this means that something LIKE Cyc is needed for the Semantic Web. The delay of OpenCyc has only served to highlight the need for it. We're looking forward to finally filling that need."