Re: [ontolog-forum] glossary of IBM's computer terms

["Godfrey Rust" <godfrey.rust@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for posting this Ron, it's delightful. Not sure that it's entirely an ontologist's nightmare, as it's mostly a set of clearly defined and exemplified terms which are better source material than ontologists often get to work with. Nor would I say it's especially bizarre. Any established enterprise or domain of interest has complex cultural 'spins', including double-meaning and irony, in its real use of terminology; it's just that these are not often documented in any orderly way. An ontological challenge that exemplifies how complex knowledge representation is. I'm not sure why anyone would want to formalise all of it, though, except as an exercise in semantic masochism :-)

 

And some pleasing jokes. We particularly liked  artificial intelligence n. The opposite of natural silliness.

 

Godfrey

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Ron Wheeler" <rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:54 PM

Subject: [ontolog-forum] glossary of IBM's computer terms

> http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/documents/pdf/glossary.pdf
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> This is an interesting document from IBM's 
history web site describing 
> various computer terms.
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> It 
is missing a lot of stuff but among the technical bits such as 
> "packet 
internet groper" and "entity" it includes definitions of "warm 
> 
fuzzies",  "wing-tip warrior", "power suit", "penalty box" and 
"opportunity"
> 
> A bizarre insight into a company's perspective on 
the world of computing.
> 
> Ontologists nightmare.
> 
> 
Ron
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