The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) is an on-line, searchable encyclopedic dictionary of computing subjects. It was founded in 1985 by Denis Howe and is hosted by Imperial College, London. Denis has served as the Editor-in-Chief since the dictionary's inception, with visitors to the website able to make suggestions for additions or corrections to articles.
The dictionary incorporates the text of other free resources, such as the Jargon File, as well as covering many other computing-related topics. It is available via many mirrors, and due to its availability under a copyleft licence has in turn been incorporated in whole or part into other free content projects, such as Wikipedia.
(From philosophy) An explicit formal specification of how to represent the objects, concepts and other entities that are assumed to exist in some area of interest and the relationships that hold among them.
For AI systems, what "exists" is that which can be represented.
This is an extension of the previous senses of "ontology" (above) which has become common in discussions about the difficulty of maintaining subject indices.
Marilyn Howe spent much of the 90-minute trip in silence, one thought spooling through her mind like a closed loop of tape: This is to be my fate; I am an angel of death.
Howe and her team would notify the serviceman's mother and father, who lived in the same town though they were divorced.
Denis fielded question after question from the mother-in-law, answering as many as she could, passing on the rest to other military personnel who would follow up with the family.
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