Computers versus Common Sense

Summary: Proposes a massive knowledge base (~10M assertions) to fuse AI and DB bottlenecks and support broad common-sense reasoning. Describes practical representation, ontology, handling of uncertainty and contradictions, and large-scale curation of millions of rules toward a scalable information infrastructure. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2617
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1991
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,451 | 1.20%
DOI: 10.1145/115790.277951

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Authors

1. Douglas B. Lenat (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{lenat_sigmod91,
        title = {{Computers versus Common Sense}},
        author = {Lenat, Douglas B.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '91},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/115790.277951},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/115790.277951},
        year = {1991}
}

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