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# Where did my ideas come from? #
#   My Personal History         #
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Richard H. McCullough


1950s	Spanish, German
1960s	French
19xx	dozens of computer languages

1950s	SBEE, SMEE  from MIT
1960s	PhDEE  from Polytechnic University

1960s	AT&T Bell Labs  pattern recognition, information theory
1970s	AT&T Bell Labs  language design, compiler design
1980s	AT&T Network Systems  UNIX internals, database design, AI

1971		"Truth, Prior Information and Entropy"
1973		Dave Burnett philosophy club
	(1967)	Ayn Rand "Intro. to Ojbectivist Epistemology"
		  => use Objectivist epistemology
1974	(197x)	Leonard Peikoff logic
1979	(1974)	Roger Schank conceptual dependency
		  => use simple English-like KR
		"Intro. to Languages and Patterns"
1989	(1983)	Joe Hall Icon user
		  => use Icon for implementation
	(1984)	John Sowa semantic network
		  => permit lattice for error checking
		"Efficient Knowledge Representation"
		  Knowledge Browser (input KR is Icon)
1996		surfing the Internet
		begin implementation of KR, KE
		"entity haspart p" vs. "entity has part=p"
		  => entity haspart p=count
1997 1st half
		Knowledge Representation language
		Knowledge Explorer tool
	(1996)	Ralph Griswold "The Icon Programming Language"
	(1996)	Clint Jeffery Icon for Windows
	(1996)	MKS UNIX Toolkit for Windows
	(1997)	GLBS WISE auto. install for Windows
		download.com
	(199x)	Microsoft Help Workshop (C++)
		"Knowledge Explorer User Manual"
		FileMine
		"entity do action" vs. "entity has action"
		  => entity do action=event
		  => event changes ... from ... to ...
	(1989)	Leonard Peikoff grammar
		"Knowledge Explorer Home Page"
1997 2nd half
	(1996)	Robert Kent "Web Conceptual Space" (WAVE)
	(1982)	Rudolf Wille Formal Concept Analysis
		  => FCA (lattice) is fuzzy concept
		  => FCA (hierarchy) is special case of KR
		Kagi secure credit card processing
	(1993)	David Kelley "The Art of Reasoning"
	(1996)	John Sowa context
		  => attend AAAI context symposium at MIT
	(1997)	Amati & Pirri fixed point solutions
		  => same as KR concept algebra
		"What is Context?"
	(1988)	David Kelley "The Evidence of the Senses"
		  => percept do record entity, entity has attribute
		  => percept is axiomatic concept