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From: walid@research.att.com (Walid Saba)
Subject: Re: Any recent Articles on Cyc?
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csd32@cc.keele.ac.uk (A.W. Oakden) writes:

>Can anyone point me in the direction of any recent reports on the Cyc
>project?  I only have the Midterm Report which was published in 1990.  There
>must have been something since.  I had heard that the project was not going
>well.  

According to a senior S/W engineer at Microsoft, Cyc is (oops...) dead.
Microsoft, believe it or not, was the last sponsor to discontinue, and
they did becuase they too did not see the common sense in Cyc's Common
Sense Knowledge Base... 

[again, so i was told...]


Walid


