Next Generation Knowledge Machines

Part I. Technological Foundations and Human Aspect of Knowledge

Knowledge is derived, accumulated, and integrated over the eons of evolution. Even plants retain basics of survival and seed dispersal particular to their habitat. All species accumulate knowledge in some form or other. Cells and neurons process events/experiences, distill them into learning, and store it away as knowledge. The art of learning to live and to live better are tied to the acquisition and accumulation of knowledge.

Over the last few decades, computers and machines have enhanced the human dealings with knowledge into the three distinct disciplines of processing, storage of information and art of communicating data, information and knowledge. From a perspective, the neural ...