software

PyOKBC (2002/09/27 -- )

A Python implementation of the Open Knowledge Base Connectivity standard from DARPA's High Performance Knowledge Base initiative.

Nooron (2002/05/06 -- )

Nooron aims to be an online digital ecosystem in which knowledge, logic and presentation can all evolve in a globe-spanning, self-organizing, peer to peer system of web servers which is simultaneously the handiest, most flexible piece of software everybody uses and also the software substrate for an emergent global collective intelligence. Take your pick.

The new home of Nooron is at: www.nooron.org This project is still underway as of 2006.03.13 despite the long time since the last release. One or more KBAdapters being added, suitable for dealing with large knowledge bases. ZODB, postgres, sqlite and rdflib are all being examined and a couple will likely be implemented soon. I'll also get this thing moved from cvs2svn and then to put a 'trac' instance in front of it.

CMFIdeaEngine (2001/02/02 -- )

Integrates Criteria and Evaluations into the Zope CMF.

GFP2.0 in perl (1998/07/10 -- 1999/01/21 R.I.P. )

This is a partially completed implementation of the Generic Frame Protocol (version 2.0) written in Perl. The GFP is now called OKBC: Open KnowledgeBase Connectivity.

Second TIE Prototype (in Java) (1996/07/01 --  R.I.P. )

This is a knowledge-based java GUI program acting as a front end to a knowledge representation system.

TIE Prototype (1995/09/15 --  R.I.P. )

A perl groupware package which was written to quite closely implement the vision described as version 0.1 of TIE in the whitepaper.

Nanotechnology Scenario Graph (1991/06/13 -- )

This graph was the original inspiration for collaborative Criteria-Evaluation software subsequently explored. At this point I had been influenced by Nelson's Hypertext notions, the Delphi Method and associative networks. This graph was originally composed as a postscript program with data structures for the various states and transitions and programmatic assignment of the fontsize and the vertical and horizontal positions of the nodes based on the averaging of each state according to the criteria: consensuality, temporality and stability.

I had originally intended that the document itself could be circulated around in email and have states, transitions, criteria and evaluations added by collaborators. I never really took this particular analysis of the nanotech situation much farther because I thought that pursuing the creation of software which could do this in-the-large was the best way to proceed with the analysis. I consider the states in the graph to have some small merit, but it is really just a starting point for a state-transition scenario analysis of the introduction of nanotech. Many of the names are rather too jokey (this was a private exercise.)

The original postscript program was lost to a harddrive failure in the early nineties.