Towards building a global oracle: a physical mashup using artificial intelligence technology

In this paper, we describe Videk - a physical mashup which uses artificial intelligence technology. We make an analogy between human senses and sensors; and between human brain and artificial intelligence technology respectively. This analogy leads to the concept of Global Oracle. We introduce a mashup system which automatically collects data from sensors. The data is processed and stored by SenseStream while the meta-data is fed into ResearchCyc. SenseStream indexes aggregates, performs clustering and learns rules which then it exports as RuleML. ResearchCyc performs logical inference on the meta-data and transliterates logical sentences. The GUI mashes up sensor data with SenseStream output, ResearchCyc output and other external data sources: GoogleMaps, Geonames, Wikipedia and Panoramio.