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John Florian Sowa is an American computer scientist, an expert in artificial intelligence and computer design, and the inventor of conceptual graphs. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. January 1940
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“An analysis of the concept of mind is an important philosophical issue, but the analysis cannot be reduced to programming of physiological terms… [It remarks the importance of the question] the way people think and the way computers can simulate thinking.”

Source: Conceptual Structures, 1984, p. 359 cited in: Rajiv Kishore, Ram Ramesh (2006) Ontologies: A Handbook of Principles, Concepts and Applications in Information Systems. p. 300

“Soon, the enterprise of the information age will find itself immobilized if it does not have the ability to tap the information resources within and without its boundaries.”

Zachman & Sowa (1992, p. 613), cited in: Nik Bessis, Fatos Xhafa (2011) Next Generation Data Technologies for Collective Computational Intelligence. p. 84

“We define a semantic network as "the collection of all the relationships that concepts have to other concepts, to percepts, to procedures, and to motor mechanisms" of the knowledge."”

Source: Conceptual Structures, 1984, p. 76 as cited in: Jacques Demongeot (1988) Artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences. p. 179

“Taxonomy is a Greek word which means an arrangement based on any kind of law or principle.”

Sowa (1992) cited in: Raad Al-Asady (1995) Inheritance Theory: An Artificial Intelligence Approach. p. 17

“To distinguish the meaningful graphs that represent real or possible situations in the external world, certain graphs are declared to be canonical.”

Source: Conceptual Structures, 1984, p. 91. cited in: C.J. van Rijsbergen, F. Crestani, M. Lalmas (1998) Information Retrieval: Uncertainty and Logics. p. 59

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