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From: jim@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jim Ruehlin, Cognitologist domesticus)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Doug Lenat's "cyc" project
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Date: 9 Aug 90 20:47:08 GMT
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In article <9300001@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM> almquist@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM (Mike Almquist) writes:
>knowledge base one could perhaps successfull or more realistically model a 
>virtual reality.  I too am hesitant to agree that Lenat will be successfull in

This is a bit off the subject, but what's a "virtual reality"?  I haven't
heard the term until today, and I've seen it 3 times!

Is it a type of sophisticated user interface/AI control to present an
entire scenario to a person?  Or something more interesting?

- Jim Ruehlin