Distributed Projects
Links
Open Mind Commonsense
http://commonsense.media.mit.edu/cgi-bin/search.cgi
Open Mind Initiative subproject to teach computers common sense reasoning. Hosted at MIT Media Lab, under the guidance of Marvin Minsky.
Open Mind Initiative
World-wide collaborative effort to develop smart software. Collects information from non-expert Internet users, to teach computers the myriad things we all know and which underlie general intelligence but which we usually take for granted. Several subprojects.
PBS.org: Cringely: Put On Your Thinking Cap
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20000824.html
Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC.
SF Weekly Online: News: A HAL of an Idea
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2000-11-15/bayview.html
Dr. David Stork is trying to create a new computer that thinks like a human being. But he needs your help.
Time Europe: Techwatch: Site Seeing
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/0925/techwatch.html
Computers still can't think for themselves. To do that they'd need the cyber equivalent of common sense: the millions of pieces of ordinary knowledge that humans take for granted. Very brief story on Mindpixel and Open Mind.
Webstructor World
Object-oriented knowledge management system. Distributed semantic net. Peer-to-peer knowledge management architecture. 2D and 3D visual ontology editor. High-level object-relational language.
Wired News: Two Fake Brains Better Than One
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,38745,00.html
Short story about Mindpixel, Open Mind, some difference between them, and possible cooperation.
Wired News: Wanted: Contents of Your Brain
http://www.wirednews.com/news/technology/0,1282,38466,00.html
Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC.


