Minsky, Papert and KR Body of Knowledge (winter reader)

Just to remind everyone that KR was not invented here

It has been around more than half a century. when AI sounded like fiction
For newcomers, it could be worth compiling their own lit
review/bibliography, and share it here
Everyone comes to KR from a different perspective

I briefly met Minsky and Papert btw (and other pioneers in AI) long before
taking an interest in the subject
As a freelance science and technology correspondent in London

The body of knowledge for KR  is vast, but it seems that the first time the
expression was used was in this paper by Minsky
which still makes a good read

*A Framework for Representing Knowledge*
https://courses.media.mit.edu/2004spring/mas966/Minsky%201974%20Framework%20for%20knowledge.pdf

While earlier, less formal uses may exist in technical memos, Minsky's
paper is consistently recognized as the document that established the *problem
of knowledge representation* as a central concern for AI, making it the
practical "first instance" citation.

By following a chain of thought I dug up a copy of Seymour Papert's book
*Mindstorms*
https://worrydream.com/refs/Papert_1980_-_Mindstorms,_1st_ed.pdf

KR has evolved since somewhat, But FOL *first order logic, remains the same

For a long time we were concerned about making knowledge machine readable
Now we are concerned about making machine logic understandable for humans

We have seen neurosymbolic KR, and  we are now witnessing  neurosymbolic
knowledge representation converging with knowledge representation learning

CG participants wishing to make contributions to the field of KR, and
propose new directions
 are welcome to share their papers, books and demos, possibly
explaining how their work advances the state of the art in KR as we know it
thus far

Stay warm

PDM


Below some of my working notes, for reference only
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*Di Maio, P.* (2025). *"The Convergence Between Neurosymbolic AI and
Knowledge Representation Learning."*  (DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.30426802.v1)
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*Di Maio, P.* (2025). *Convergence of Neurosymbolic AI and Knowledge
Representation Learning: Lecture Notes*.  (DOI:
10.6084/m9.figshare.30646106)
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*Di Maio, P.* (2025). *"Truth Maintenance in Knowledge Representation
Learning."*
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*Di Maio, P.* (2022). *"Metamodel Card for System Level Neurosymbolic
Integration."* *.* (DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19567624)
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*Di Maio, P.* (2023). *"Towards a Web Standard for Neuro-Symbolic
Integration and Knowledge Representation Using Model Cards."* In *Data
Science with Semantic Technologies*, Taylor & Francis.