Cycorp, Inc. (pronounced "Sycore") is a company located in
Austin, Texas that has developed the
Cyc program and database for
Artificial Intelligence, based on collecting explicit logical descriptions of common-sense knowledge. The company was a spin-off from the 10-year-old Cyc project at
MCC[?], then run by
Douglas Lenat and
Ramanathan V. Guha. In
2002 the company had about 62 employees, and the stock was privately-held. The majority of Cycorp revenue comes from government research contracts, although it does have some commercial income.
The Cycorp homepage is at http://www.cyc.com