Cyc

Introduction

Cyc is an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base of everyday common sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning. The project was started in 1984 by Douglas Lenat at MCC and is developed by company Cycorp. Parts of the project are released as OpenCyc, which provides an API, RDF endpoint, and data dump under an open source license.

Usage

Compute Systems Invocation Version(s)
Red Hat Linux (64-bit) % /util/bin/ (default)

Notes

  1. We don't currently have the resources to support this software. It requires: 
    
 64-bit OS

    * 4GB of RAM (the more, the better; the faster, the better)
    * ~6GB of swap space
    * 64-bit Java 1.6 server version (i.e. JDK, not JRE)

People

  1. Stuart Shapiro, researcher.

References

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
  2. http://researchcyc.cyc.com/
  3. http://researchcyc.cyc.com/apply
  4. http://researchcyc.cyc.com/releases