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Knowledge Representation Timeline

2nd July 2003

This is pretty impressive: A Timeline of knowledge-representation that starts at the dawn of the Universe and continues through the whole of human history right up to the present day.

Posted 2nd July 2003 at 4:27 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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