The Cyc Knowledge Server CMSC 828 D Report 1 Cody

In 1984, Dr. Douglas Lenat set out to construct an intelligent system capable of automated, common-sense reasoning and natural language understanding through the capture and formalization of general, real-world information. This effort would eventually become the Cyc Knowledge Server [2], which has since grown into an extensive knowledge base, formal language, and inference system supported and marketed by the Cycorp corporation. Cycorp has since spun off the OpenCyc initiative, which enables free and open access to a limited version of the Cyc knowledge base and the use of its related tools, to foster market growth and third party contribution to its knowledge base.