 
engine developed by Cycorp.  Cycorp's goal is to break the "software brittleness 
bottleneck" once and for all by constructing a foundation of basic "common sense" 
knowledge--a semantic substratum of terms, rules, and relations--that will enable a 
variety of knowledge-intensive products and services.  <font style=bold>Cyc</font> is 
intended to provide a "deep" layer of understanding that can be used by other programs 
to make them more flexible.

The Cyc technology includes the following components:

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