#+TITLE: Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction ----- - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz][download latest snapshot]] - This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 3 of the [[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html][GNU Lesser General Public License]] or later as published by the Free Software Foundation. - Program author: - Svjatoslav Agejenko - Homepage: http://svjatoslav.eu - Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu - [[http://svjatoslav.eu/programs.jsp][other applications hosted at svjatoslav.eu]] * (document settings) :noexport: ** use dark style for TWBS-HTML exporter #+HTML_HEAD: #+HTML_HEAD: #+HTML_HEAD: " #+HTML_HEAD: * Current status There is nothing useful for regular people yet. Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some working parts are already implemented: + Sub projects: - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html][First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map.]] - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d/doc/index.html][In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.]] - [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d-demos/doc/index.html][3D engine demos]] * Vision - A tool to amplify human ability. - Properly visualizes and immerses user in completely various forms of information and provides intuitive and powerful ways to explore, interact and manipulate it with fast feedback loop to immediately see results. #+BEGIN_QUOTE “Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind” Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992) #+END_QUOTE * Features to implement in the future - Semantic networks / knowledge trees. - Is able to use natural language for knowledge mining and question answering. This could potentially lead to self aware artificial intelligence. Because of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics]["Three laws safe"]] design, there is nothing that can go wrong. - Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user interfaces. - Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha. - Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and processing, similar to IBM Watson. - P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system.