Cyc

Long-running project to hand-encode common-sense knowledge as a logical knowledge base, started at MCC and continued by Cycorp.

Explore it ↗ cyc.com

Part of threads Hand-built meaning or learned meaning proposes; One vocabulary or many proposes

builds on

• Ontology (information science) concept [src]
• Upper ontology concept [src]

maintained by

• Cycorp organization 1994 [src1][src2]
• Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation organization 1982–2000 (1984–1994) [src]

created by

• Doug Lenat person 1950–2023 (1984) [src]

contributors

• R.V. Guha person b. 1965 [src]

subject of

• Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems writing 1990 [src]

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc