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==Aspects of Inquiry==

==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.

"Inquiry" is a word in common use for a process that resolves doubt and creates knowledge.  [[Computer]]s 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.

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 [[computer software|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.

===Preliminary Questions===

===Preliminary Questions===