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Date Posted: 15:16:45 07/11/07 Wed
Author: R. V. Guha
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 85.195.123.26
Subject: Keith Goolsbey Did Not Create Cyc
In reply to: Bill Andersen 's message, "Regarding CyCorp's Cyc Project" on 15:13:54 07/11/07 Wed

I did not say that Cyc has a model theory. Nor did I say that it is predictable in its current form. However, it can be made predictable, etc. with good software engineering, i.e., without a model theory. There are lots of very complex software artifacts, which have nice predictable properties which don't have a model theory.

Google is nice and predictable because of good software engineering and not model theory. Somehow, your message implicitly equates model theory with nice and predictable. You have to make the case for that.

BTW, for the sake of history and the many people who gave up significant portions of their lives for Cyc, the architecture of CycL, as you describe it, is documented in [1] was the collaborative work of many, including David Wallace, Mark Derthick, Dexter Pratt, John Huffman and me. Keith is the implementor of the current version. It is important to be correct about these attributions.

guha

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