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High Performance Knowledge Bases

DARPA research program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2024
Entity authorityQ16843160 ↗
Source-derived summary

The High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) was a DARPA research program to advance the technology of how computers acquire, represent and manipulate knowledge. The successor of the HPKB project was the Rapid Knowledge Formation (RKF) project.

The primary results of the HPKB project was to focus further research on the Knowledge acquisition bottleneck problem.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “High Performance Knowledge Bases” is dARPA research program. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through High, Performance and Knowledge, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 54-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, High, Performance and Knowledge is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “High Performance Knowledge Bases” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.