[Inquiry] Re: Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems

[Jon Awbrey]

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INT.  Note 2

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Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems

1.  Aspects of Inquiry

"Inquiry" is a word in common use for a process that resolves doubt
and creates knowledge.  Computers are involved in inquiry today, and
are likely to become more so as time goes on.  The aim of my research
is to improve the service that computers bring to inquiry.  I plan to
approach this task by analyzing the nature of inquiry processes, with
an eye to those elements that can be given a computational basis.

I am interested in the kinds of inquiries which human beings carry on
in all the varieties of learning and reasoning from everyday life to
scientific practice.  I would like to design software that people could
use to carry their inquiries further, higher, faster.  Needless to say,
this could be an important component of all intelligent software systems
in the future.  In any application where a knowledge base is maintained,
it will become more and more important to examine the processes that
deliver the putative knowledge.

Jon Awbrey

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