The Singularity Institute just announced the release of the Open Cognition Framework developed by Ben Goertzel.

The Open Cognition Framework (OpenCog) is software for the collaborative development of safe and beneficial Artificial General Intelligence.

OpenCog provides research scientists and software developers with a common platform to build and share artificial intelligence programs. The framework includes:

• a flexible and highly optimized in-memory database for knowledge representation,
• a plug-in architecture for cognitive algorithms and a cognitive process scheduler,
• a built-in LISP-like programming language, and
• other components to support artificial intelligence research and development.

Programs written or adapted for OpenCog may be combined and used in concert with one another for experimentation or to achieve better results compared to their stand-alone counterparts.