[24] What is Cyc? (Common Sense)

Cyc is a project at MCC in Texas to build an enCYClopedic database and
reasoning engine for common sense knowledge.

   R.V. Guha and Douglas B. Lenat, "Enabling agents to work together",
   CACM 37(7):127-142, 1994.

   "CYC", AI Magazine 1986, 7(1), 1986.

   "Cyc: A Mid-Term Report," AI Magazine, 11(3):32-59, Fall 1990.

   "Cyc: Toward Programs With Common Sense," CACM, 33(8):30-49, 
   August 1990. 

   "Knowledge and Natural Language Processing," CACM, Aug 1990.
 
   "When will machines learn?," Machine Learning, 4(3-4):255-257,
   December 1989. 

   Douglas B. Lenat and R.V. Guha, "Building Large Knowledge-Based
   Systems", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1990. ISBN 0-201-51752-3.

For a critique of Cyc, see Stefik and Smoliar, "The Commonsense
Reviews", Artificial Intelligence 61(1):37-40 1993.

An annotated bibliography on the Cyc project by Will Fitzgerald was
posted to comp.ai on 7-JUL-94. A copy of this bibliography is
available as
   ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/areas/doc/bib/cyc.txt