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"The driver of the power of intelligent systems is
 the knowledge the systems have about
  their universe of discourse, ... Cyc has
  not only the world's largest knowledge base,
 but the best represented from a technical
point of view."  ~ Edward Feigenbaum, January, 2001

the Cyc knowledge server

The Cyc Knowledge Server is a very large, multi-contextual knowledge base and inference engine developed by Cycorp. Cycorp's goal is to break the "software brittleness bottleneck" once and for all by constructing a foundation of basic "common sense" knowledge--a semantic substratum of terms, rules, and relations--that will enable a variety of knowledge-intensive products and services. Cyc is intended to provide a "deep" layer of understanding that can be used by other programs to make them more flexible. The Cyc technology includes the following components:

Cyc Knowledge Server



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