260 ⟶ Porphyry's Isagogê and Early Semantic Net

Porphyry wrote Isagogê which categorized knowledge and logic...
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🕸️ Porphyry's Isagogê and Early Semantic Net

Porphyry wrote Isagogê which categorized knowledge and logic, including a drawing of what would later be called a "Semantic net".⟶
Porphyry's Isagogê and Early Semantic Net (260)
LogicKnowledge RepresentationSemantic NetworksPhilosophyAncient GreeceCategorizationConcepts
GreeceGreece

⚙️ Ramon Llull's Ars Magna and Mechanical Reasoning

Ramon Llull, Mallorcan theologian, invents the Ars Magna, a tool for combining concepts mechanically based on an Arabic astrological tool, the Zairja. Llull described his machines as mechanical entities that could combine basic truth and facts to produce advanced knowledge. The method would be developed further by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the 17th century.⟶
Ramon Llull's Ars Magna and Mechanical Reasoning (1275)
LogicMechanical ReasoningKnowledge RepresentationArs MagnaPhilosophyCombinatorial SystemsEarly AI Concepts
SpainSpain

🕸️ Demonstration of Semantic Nets

Ross Quillian (PhD dissertation, Carnegie Inst. of Technology, now CMU) demonstrated semantic nets.⟶
Demonstration of Semantic Nets (1966)
Semantic NetworksKnowledge RepresentationAICarnegie Mellon UniversityQuillianConceptual Modeling
United StatesUnited States

🖼️ Minsky Publishes on Frames for Knowledge Representation

Marvin Minsky published his widely read and influential article on Frames as a representation of knowledge, in which many ideas about schemas and semantic links are brought together.⟶
Knowledge RepresentationFramesMarvin MinskySchemasSemantic NetworksCognitive Science
USAUSA