Microsoft Research Watch: AI, NoSQL and Microsoft’s Big Data Future
From ReadWriteCloud channel:
Probase is a Microsoft Research project described as an “ongoing project that focuses on knowledge acquisition and knowledge serving.” Its primary goal is to “enable machines to understand human behavior and human communication.” It can be compared to Cyc, DBpedia or Freebase in that it is attempting to compile a massive collection of structured data that can be used to power artificial intelligence applications.
It’s powered by a new graph database called Trinity, which is also a Microsoft Research project. Trinity was spotted today by MyNoSQL blogger Alex Popescu, and that led us to Probase. Neither project seems to be available to the public yet.
Err, did they say graph database?
Now, if they can just avoid the one-world-semantic trap this could prove to be very interesting.
Well, it will be interesting in any case but avoiding that particular dead end would give MS a robustness that would be hard to match.