History
The project was the brainchild of Marvin Minsky, Push Singh, Catherine Havasi, and others. Development work began in September 1999, and the project was opened to the Internet a year later. Havasi described it in her dissertation as "an attempt to ... harness some of the distributed human computing power of the Internet, an idea which was then only in its early stages." The original OMCS was influenced by the website Everything2 and its predecessor, and presented a minimalist interface that was inspired by Google.
Push Singh was slated to become a professor at the MIT Media Lab to lead the Common Sense Computing group in 2007 until his suicide on Tuesday, February 28, 2006.
The project is currently run by the Digital Intuition Group at the MIT Media Lab under Catherine Havasi.
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