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*Our team has moved from Launchpad to GitHub*. Please go to: http://github.com/commonsense/

When people communicate, they rely on a large body of shared common sense knowledge in order to understand each other. Many barriers we face today in artificial intelligence and user interface design are due to the fact that computers do not share this knowledge. To improve computers' understanding of the world that people live in and talk about, we need to provide them with usable knowledge about the basic relationships between things that nearly every person knows.

In 1999, we began a project at the MIT Media Lab to collect common sense from volunteers on the internet. Nearly ten years later our project has expanded to encompass many different areas, languages, and problems.