Well,
Conrad Barski has done it again - produced another tutorial that
distils the essence of a complex subject into something that anyone can
understand (his earlier tutorials covered
Lisp macros,
Emacs tagging, and
Lisp web servers). This one is
on
Knowledge Representation
and it is
quite a good intro (Note: some people had trouble accessing the site
and others had no trouble at all - might be a DNS issue, so try back
later if you have problems). As he says on
his blog:
"When it really comes down to it, the
biggest mistake you can make in writing is to be boring - Actually
being right in what you write is a nice bonus,
though..."
Conrad Barski's writing is
definitely
not boring! ;-)
The sections are:
If you're interested in KR, you might also be interested in having a
look at
Ralf Möller's ILC2007 presentation
Building a Commercial OWL Reasoner with Lisp (it's not available
online yet; however, the ILC2007 presentations are supposed to be
available online soon, so keep checking back). Also, Franz is hosting
a free web seminar titled
Understanding Web 3.0 Database Technology - if you're interested in
Knowledge Representation and it's uses, this looks to be a good one to
see. It's this Wednesday April 11, 10:00 - 11:30 am Pacific time.