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Subject: Re: pointers to augmentation of intellect literature
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One article I found very readable and interesting was "The Next
Knowledge Medium" by Mark Stefik, in The AI Magazine vol. 7 no. 1,
Spring 1986.  AI Magazine is the official publication of the American
Association for Artificial Intelligence.  Stefik discusses the
potential for standardizing knowledge representation, creating an
interoperable knowledge medium, and the possibility of having
"knowledge markets, with mechanisms for distributing and renting
knowledge."

"Building a knowledge medium is a long-term goal, complementary to the
goal of building artificially intelligent agents.  Importantly, the
vision of a knowledge medium might be the more useful guide to
progress.  Like the agent goal, it is for the long term.  It stands on
other work in the larger field of computer science, such as work on
databases and network technology.  It rests on the same core work of
AI - on language understanding, knowledge representation, and
problem-solving."

Quotes above from Stefik.

Hypertext is related to knowledge representation, with an emphasis on
guiding a reader through the links of the representation, and
presenting the representation in a form similar to standard
literature.  Perhaps by the time we have substantial AI-type knowledge
bases, we will have the capacity to automatically generate good
hypertext presentations of the knowledge.

Duke