Talk:Open Mind Common Sense

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[edit] Open Mind and MindPixel

So very sad. Also, so very surprising! The founder of a similar project called Mindpixel, Chris McKinstry, died on Jan 23, 2006. Just over a month later, Dr. Push Singh died on Feb 28, 2006. What then becomes of the dream when both men are dead? --Mnemosign 06:26, 23 April 2006

Why would he do this to himself? I don't want to speculate too much, but was the project not producing the intended results? How was his faith in Minksy in his last months? Did he have depression? I think these are possibly important questions. --Amit 22:50, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mindpixel offline

Doesnt anyone know why the site for this project is offline? Is the project dead? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Open_Mind_Common_Sense Cancel

Mindpixel was entirely Chris McKinstry's project, so it's no surprise that it didn't keep going. Open Mind, on the other hand, has almost nothing to do with Mindpixel, and I'd like to reassure people that the project is alive and well, now run by Henry Lieberman. I'm a grad student who has worked on the project. Here's a paper with some recent research.

Unfortunately, an unauthorized article in a certain trashy but popular computer magazine, which speculated randomly about Push Singh and Chris McKinstry despite that they never successfully interviewed or obtained the permission of anyone involved, somehow inspired some readers of said magazine to DOS our public site (normally hosted at http://openmind.media.mit.edu). So it will be down for a couple of weeks until we build up our defenses. People suck. But Open Mind is certainly not dead. just closed to the public while we fix it.

rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 04:15, 25 January 2008 (UTC)