Doug, (01)
I have just set up your session page on our wiki.
See:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_11_17 (02)
Feel free to modify it, and add other link and resources to it as
you see fit. (You might want to look through the paragraph at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidA before
editing the Ontolog wiki.) (03)
I'll be announcing your event to the forum shortly. (04)
Thanks & regards. =ppy
-- (05)
Peter P. Yim wrote Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:58:26 -0800:
> Got it! Thanks, Doug. =ppy
> -- (06)
> Doug Lenat wrote Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:37:11 -0600:
>
>> Hi, Peter. Here are the items a-d that you requested.
>> I'm looking forward to my talk, and will send you a
>> powerpoint file ASAP so we can do a "dry run" of the
>> web controls for it ahead of time.
>>
>> Regards
>> Doug
>>
>> Title: CYC: Lessons Learned in Large-Scale Ontological Engineering
>>
>> Abstract:
>>
>> The pursuit of Artificial Intelligence -- from robotics to
>> natural language processing to automated learning -- has been
>> held back by the "brittleness bottleneck" caused by the need for
>> common sense. For 21 years, we've been priming the pump, building
>> up a formalized corpus of such knowledge, Cyc. Along the
>> way, we've had to revise our preconceptions and theories, to
>> expand our representation language and arsenal of inference methods,
>> to find approximate yet adequate engineering solutions to problems
>> that philosphers have grappled with for millenia such as
>> ontologizing aspects of substances versus individual objects,
>> time, space, causality, belief, social interactions, and so on.
>> The process of ontological engineering had to grow and evolve
>> throughtout this enterprise, as well, such as how Cyc
>> represents and reasons with contradictions and context.
>> In this talk I will try to cover both the large scale picture
>> of what we've built and why, and the detailed picture of how
>> it's built, and the lessons learned along the way in how and
>> how not to do large-scale OE. I will report on our recent
>> efforts to make Cyc more accessible to the broader community
>> through OpenCyc and ResearchCyc, which raises issues of how
>> multiple individuals and groups can share and integrate their
>> extensions (and settle their differences). Finally, I will
>> discuss an exciting new effort we have just had funded, to
>> gather automated reasoning researchers together for a series
>> of workshops in 2006 on speeding up inference in large
>> knowledge bases by orders of magnitude.
>>
>> Bio:
>> *
>> Dr. Douglas Lenat* is the President and CEO of Cycorp. Since 1984, he
>> and his team have been constructing, experimenting with, and applying
>> a broad real world knowledge base and reasoning engine, collectively
>> “Cyc”. For ten years he did this as the Principal Scientist of the MCC
>> research consortium
>> (the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation), and since
>> 1994
>> as CEO of Cycorp. He holds BAs in Mathematics and Physics and an
>> MS in Applied Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania. His 1976
>> Stanford PhD thesis was a demonstration that certain kinds of creative
>> discoveries in mathematics could be produced by a computer
>> program (a theorem /proposer/, rather than a theorem /prover/). That
>> work earned
>> him the bi-annual IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1977. Dr.
>> Lenat was
>> a professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University and at
>> Stanford
>> University. He is one of the founders of AAAI (the American
>> Association for
>> Artificial Intelligence), and a Fellow of AAAI. He has authored
>> hundreds of journal
>> articles (e.g., a four-article series in /AI.J. o/ver several years on
>> /The Nature of
>> Heuristics I-IV/), book chapters (e.g., in /Machine Learning/ and
>> /Hal's Legacy/)
>> and books (including /Knowledge Based Systems in Artificial
>> Intelligence / and /Building Large Knowledge Based Systems/). In 1980
>> he co-founded
>> Teknowledge, Inc. His interest and experience in national security
>> has led him
>> to regularly consult for several U.S. agencies and the White House.
>> He is the
>> only person to have served on the technical advisory boards of both
>> Microsoft and Apple.
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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