An attempt at a SemanticNetwork, rambunctiously unencumbered by any ArtificialIntelligence research that has gone before:

    http://www.concepts-web.de/ (BrokenLink)

This site has inspired many earnest threads on news:comp.object:

    http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=&num=10&as_scoring=relevance&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=concepts-web&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=comp.object&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&as_umsgid=&lr=&as_drrb=quick&as_qdr=&as_mind=15&as_minm=8&as_miny=2000&as_maxd=15&as_maxm=4&as_maxy=2001

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P.S.: The project seems to be "rambunctiously unencumbered" by the idea of delivering an actual, running system.  C.f.: TheCurseOfXanadu.

''Not to mention rambunctiously unencumbered by the idea of reality. And I quote: "The Concepts project introduces a new software technology to make redundant all current programming languages[...]" Okay, great idea, but it ain't gonna happen.'' -- JosephDale

Lol... Applications are formed by using precisely defined 'Concepts.'  To use their example of footnotes and layouts... the system has a concept of footnotes, concept of layouts, and the concept that a footnote can be layed out.  And this is different from programming... how?