A delightful book to read anywhere!! Inspiration, motivation, and respect were brought on by this collection of memories and anecdotes. It is truly worth it.

With the increasing interest in semantic annotations (RDF and other applications lately advocated by Tim Berners-Lee, the "founder" of the web), it's useful to look at the research literature to see what people have been doing with "conceptual structures" for the past 4 decades.

Since the early days of AI, many scientists have grappled with the issues of knowledge representation. This book and its predecessors cover a conference on exactly that issue. Unlike some other treatments which I find to be either too theoretical or too pragmatic, this one covers just the right level of abstraction and practicality.

I references this and similar works in the design of the semantics annotation systems at Microsoft that will be seen in upcoming products.

This book is a very good documentary of the pioneer era in Southwestern Va. It covers the histoy of a farm now owned by Va Tech from its incepion until the present time. It gives a brief history of all the families that have lived there and how most of them are tied together. It also tells of some of he hardships they went through.