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Enabling Agents to Work Together, by R. Guha and Douglas Lenat
WRT: 1.25 hours
If you find yourself consumed with curiosity, you can read about Lenat's company, Cycorp on the web or you can look at The Dimensions of Context Space.
Make sure your name appears, even if without a project description, in Project summaries for 2009. Otherwise, you will not have a presentation slot.
On a total of one side of one sheet of paper, using 10 pt type or larger, with standard interline spacing and margins, respond to all the following.
Examine the sample questions, which were reported in the Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyers Journal, which alleged that the questions were actually asked of witnesses by attorneys during trials. In certain cases, the responses given by insightful witnesses are also provided. Then, pick three or four, and exhibit the quanta of knowledge, in English (not Lenat's formal representation), that would equip CYC to be smarter than a lawyer.
Winston, during one of his periods of temporary insanity, has taken a leave from MIT to spend two years working at a venture capital firm, McDuck Associates. You have taken a job working for him, and honoring what you have learned from 6xxx, you are always careful to think about what motivates the McDuck partners with respect to what sorts of investments they support.