[jfdixon]

> Isn't Freebase.com his project as well?

No, that was Danny Hillis. Freebase was purchased by Google and became the core of what is now known as the Google Knowledge Graph.

Interestingly, Ramanathan Guha[1] was originally involved in the Cyc project and is now at Google. He was also instrumental in the creation of RDF, the format central to the W3C's Semantic Web and LOD efforts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanathan_V._Guha

[kolev]

I confused OpenCyc with Freebase, which was linking to OpenCyc at least in the past. I know Freebase got acquired, but thanks for the clarification! It's really nice that Google is aggregating a lot of AI power. Combined with the robotics companies they've acquired, too, the direction is clear.