]> 2008/06/10 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. HighTechManufacturingEnterprise The colleciton of organizations (businesses) that manufacture high tech items. high tech manufacturer high tech manufacturing enterprises high tech company high tech manufacturers high tech manufacturing enterprise high tech companies ComputerManufacturer The collection of all computer manufacturers, which are businesses that build computers. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjTwJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HighTechManufacturingEnterprise</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjThZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComputerManufacturer</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv1fLiZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FacetInstanceCollection</a>. computer manufacturer GlaxoInc <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwMwSApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GlaxoInc</a>., the American subsidiary of Glaxo Wellcome plc. Glaxo AmericanTelephoneAndTelegraph AT&T RocheLaboratoriesInc Roche Laboratories, Inc. Intuitive Surgical Inc. IntuitiveSurgicalInc Micron Technology Inc MicronTechnologyInc Motorola Motorola Uniden manufactures wireless phones and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvjRtbJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonalDigitalAssistant</a>s. UnidenInc Uniden Denel Aviation (Pty) Ltd DenelAviation-ManufacturingOrganization HoffmannLaRoche Hoffmann-La Roche FujiElectricCo Fuji Electric Olivetti OlivettiInc BoehringerIngelheim Boehringer Ingelheim An international company involved in the development of computer technology, and the production of testing and measurement instruments. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Hewlett-PackardInc Hewlett-Packard Maxtech Inc. MaxtechInc KongsbergDefenceAndAerospace-ManufacturingOrganization Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace American Overseas Marine AmericanOverseasMarine-ManufacturingOrganization one of the nation's leading shipbuilders. Firm responsible for developing the photocopier. XeroxInc Xerox Corporation Creativelabs CreativeLabs-CommercialOrganization Integrated Surgical Systems Inc. IntegratedSurgicalSystemsInc ABS Hovercraft Ltd ABSHovercraftLtd-ManufacturingOrganization Developer of the NeXT workstation. NeXTInc NeXT, Inc. Wico Wico Tektronix Inc TektronixInc NetscapeCommunicationsCorporation Netscape Communications Corporation GileadSciencesInc Gilead Sciences Adobe, Inc. AdobeInc The software company founded by John Warnock which developed Postscript and many other font/printer technologies. UMaxInc U Max Inc Sony Sony-TheCompany NationalSteelAndShipbuildingCompany one of the nation's leading shipbuilders. National Steel and Shipbuilding Company AMS Inc. AMSInc MAG Inc MAGInc Nokia Nokia Finnish company that manufactures the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvo3dmJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Nokia</a> brand of cellular phones, base stations, automobile &amp; bicycle tires, and other products. Brother Inc BrotherInc LMI Defunct LISP machine manufacturer. LMI Sun Microsystems SunMicrosystemsInc Manufacturer of Sun workstations. TrianglePharmaceuticals Triangle Pharmaceuticals ElectricBoat-ManufacturingOrganization Electric Boat the world's leading designer and builder of submarines. CommodoreBusinessMachines Makers of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwKsAeJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PETComputer</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwHrn6JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Commodore64</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvkOfPJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Commodore16</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwRWFC5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Commodore128</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvm4g_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmigaComputer</a> personal computers. Their logo is a chicken head. On 29 April 1994, Commodore closed down business. On April 21, 1995, CBM was bought by Escom AG, a German company. Production of the Amiga resumed. commodore AbbottLaboratories-Corporation Abbott Caldera Inc A software company which distributes various versions of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViHlJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Unix</a>, having bought out SCO (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvvHsW5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SantaCruzOperationInc</a>). It recently released an open-source Unix. CalderaInc IridiumLLC Iridium Iridium LLC, the global satellite telephone and paging company. Commercially active since November 1, 1998. Kodak EastmanKodakCorporation BrukerAG-ManufacturingOrganization Bruker AG a Swiss company that specializes in the field of chemical analysis and signal processing. SymbolicsInc Symbolics Inc <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQwp6JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BaxterHealthcareCorp</a> (Baxter International) is a worldwide biomedical manufacturing company specializing in technologies related to the circulatory system. Baxter BaxterHealthcareCorp BeijingMatsushitaTricolorTubeCorp Beijing Matsushita Tricolor Tube Corp one of Italy's leading defense companies. AleniaDifesa-HighTechManufacturer Alenia Difesa Pfizer is a pharmacuetical company. Pfizer PfizerInc WesternDigitalCorporation western digital one of Italy's leading high-tech manufacturing organizations, focusing on defense, aerospace, energy, transportation, and automation technologies. Finmeccanica Finmeccanica-HighTechCompany VisiontekInc Visiontek Inc HitachiLtd Hitachi ICQInc-TheCompany ICQ Inc. ASUS Inc ASUSInc Intergraph Corporation IntergraphCorporation DenelPtyLtd-Corporation Denel (Pty) Ltd The same company whose name is associated with those card-wheels that sit on office desks also manufactures <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvjRtbJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonalDigitalAssistant</a>s. Rolodex RolodexInc a U.S.-based, military technology company. They also make non-military, high-tech airplanes for businesses and governments. They employ 'approximately 44,000 people in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.' General Dynamics Corporation GeneralDynamicsCorporation Sematech Austin chip manufacturer. Sematech Computer Motion ComputerMotionInc NEC NECInc CTXInc CTX Inc Bath Iron Works BathIronWorks-ManufacturingOrganization one of the nation's leading shipbuilders. TexasInstrumentsInc Texas Instruments Firm responsible for developing the silicon chip. Ashton-Tate Ashton-Tate A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjTwJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HighTechManufacturingEnterprise</a> established in 1988 in Ankara, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViERpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Turkey</a>. FNSS is a joint-venture company between NUROL Group of Turkey and United Defense of USA. FMC-NurolSavunmaSanayii-ManufacturingOrganization FMC-Nurol Savunma Sanayii Siemens Inc SiemensInc LotusDevelopmentCorporation Lotus Development Corporation A large software company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. MicrosoftInc Microsoft Yazaki Yazaki-TheCompany DigitalEquipmentCorporation Digital Equipment ViewsonicInc Viewsonic Inc Saco Defense, Inc. SacoDefenseInc-ManufacturingOrganization Merck & Co MerckAndCo-Corporation Sharp Appliance SharpAppliance-TheCompany one of Italy's leading aerospace research and development companies. Alenia Aerospazio AleniaAerospazio-HighTechManufacturer KongsbergGroup-High-TechCorporation The Kongsberg Group Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd MatsushitaLtd GeneralDynamicsArmamentSystems-DefenseCompany General Dynamics Armament Systems U.S. Robotics, the telecommunications company. It just merged with 3Com (1999). USRobotics U.S. Robotics GeneralDynamicsLandSystems-DefenseCompany General Dynamics Land Systems PhilipsElectronicsNV Philips Electronics NV A company that produces chips with <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rakXBzHTAEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">MIPSArchitecture</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi7MZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MIPS</a> the benchmark of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMiJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CPUSpeed</a>. MIPS Technologies, Inc. MIPSTechnologiesInc Symicron-Corporation Symicron HighTechManufacturingEnterprise high tech manufacturer The colleciton of organizations (businesses) that manufacture high tech items. A collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> (q.v.). Moreover, each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a collection that is temporally stuff-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>) but physically-spatially object-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a>) -- i.e. object-like with respect to some physical-spatial part-whole predicate (e.g. some specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r8a2smPXcQdiEoJhcx65EiQ" class="cyc_term">properPhysicalDecompositions</a>). <p/> Consider the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a>. Further, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is temporally stuff-like: any one of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> of a given copy <code><b>COPY</b></code> of (say) &quot;Moby Dick&quot; is still a copy of &quot;Moby Dick&quot;. (Most collections of tangible objects are temporally stuff-like in this way.) But <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is spatially <i>object-like</i>: if we take a scalpel and slice <code><b>COPY</b></code> into ten pieces, each piece is not a copy of &quot;Moby Dick&quot;. So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. <p/> See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>. ExistingObjectType type of object The collection of all technology companies. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvZznmZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TechnologyOrganization</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjQNpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Business</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r_QItpk1AQdmXyb0GoTXPSA" class="cyc_term">TechnologyCompany</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwI3GYpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BusinessTypeByActivityType</a>. technology company TechnologyCompany HighTechManufacturingEnterprise high tech manufacturer The colleciton of organizations (businesses) that manufacture high tech items. ManufacturingCompany manufacturing company A collection of organizations; a subset of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjvI5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ManufacturingOrganization</a>. An element of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjvXpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ManufacturingCompany</a> is a manufacturer that is also a company in its own right. (See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjQNpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Business</a>.) This collection excludes manufacturers which are <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi_v5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">subOrganizations</a> of some larger <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjvI5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ManufacturingOrganization</a>. Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString The collection of all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r_4bScKNtQdiVw7XtX-HN0Q" class="cyc_term">ClarifyingCollectionType</a> that are used by the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvYbXiJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">QueryAugmentationApplication</a> to resolve natural language ambiguities. QAClarifyingCollectionType QA clarifying collection type HighTechManufacturingEnterprise high tech manufacturer The colleciton of organizations (businesses) that manufacture high tech items.