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Since when people call him "Doug"? :) Eurisko had some amazing accomplishments, but some questioned their authenticity saying Douglas and students help it a bit

by kolev 12y ago

Since when people call him "Doug"? :) Eurisko had some amazing accomplishments, but some questioned their authenticity saying Douglas and students help it a bit. Anyway, Douglas Lenat is my all-times idol and I hope this prolonged "stealth mode" was the intermission of something great. Isn't Freebase.com his project as well?

candeira 12y ago
> Since when people call him "Doug"? One datapoint: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/2.04/cyc-o.html http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/2.04/cyc-o.html So for more than 20 years.
- kolev 12y ago
  When I was reading about his work, it was the 80s, early 90s. :)
  - kolev 12y ago
    I'm not sure why I got downvoted, but, really, back at those times, maybe out of great respect, but he was "Douglas". :)
richardw 12y ago
Since when people call him "Doug" He doesn't seem to mind: http://www.cyc.com/about/team/doug-lenat http://www.cyc.com/about/team/doug-lenat
jfdixon 12y ago
> Isn't Freebase.com his project as well? No, that was Danny Hillis. Freebase was purchased by Google and became the core of what is now known as the Google Knowledge Graph. Interestingly, Ramanathan Guha[1] was originally involved in the Cyc project and is now at Google. He was also instrumental in the creation of RDF, the format central to the W3C's Semantic Web and LOD efforts. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanathan_V._Guha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanathan_V._Guha
- kolev 12y ago
  I confused OpenCyc with Freebase, which was linking to OpenCyc at least in the past. I know Freebase got acquired, but thanks for the clarification! It's really nice that Google is aggregating a lot of AI power. Combined with the robotics companies they've acquired, too, the direction is clear.