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Looking Back: KM in College

In a way I’ve circled around (spiralled around?) to an area where I spent a fair portion of my college years.  I don’t think any of us there (profs, me, other students) called it knowledge management.  Still, different classes touched on different aspects of it: 

• Metaphysics:  What can we know, objective v. subjective, and lead-in to… 
• Philosophy of language:  structure; hardwiring (or not) for different kinds of learning; meaning, whose constructed meaning, how can we know if my meaning is your meaning; relation to the (”real”) world
• Artificial Intelligence (philosophy independent study semester):  Now that I think about it, I wonder if reading Nagel’s “What is it Like to Be a Bat” back then has subconsciously influenced me all these years.  Just how objectively one can describe subjective experiences does relate to knowledge transfer/sharing, as well.
• AI again (computer science Senior Thesis): expert systems, rules (and inheritance), taxonomy, knowledge representation, neural networks and pattern matching