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

I am glad you mentioned this article to us. I will try over the coming
weeks to compile a list of articles that outline all perspectives on
knowledge representation and try to relate them to the computational
version.


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On Sun, Nov 23, 2025, 13:35 Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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