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Creating the Soul of a Robotic Dog -- A NYT article on the process of developing Tiger's i-cybie, a robotic dog that will sell for $200. (2/4)

RumourBot tracks source of stories on web -- A BBC news article reports "Robots could soon be patrolling the web to track the source of rumors and slander. Swiss computer company Agence Virtuelle has developed a software robot that uses a battalion of small, smart programs to scour the web for the fount of particular stories." (2/2)

New Scientist: Read my mind -- Vittorio Gallese, Giacomo Rizzolatti and their colleagues at the University of Parma have identified an entirely new class of neurons that could help explain how animals interpret the behavior and infer the intentions of other animals. (2/2)

Application of Social Analogies to Computational Systems -- Volume 4 issue 1 of JASS is a special issue devoted to "Special issue Starting from Society: the Application of Social Analogies to Computational Systems". (2/1)

ZDNet's Artificial Intelligence special report -- "In ZDNet's Artificial Intelligence Special, ZDNet charts the road to sentience, examines the technologies that will take us from sci-fi to sci-fact, and asks if machines should have rights. " (1/31)

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WET ICE 2001 -- WET ICE '01 -- the IEEE 10th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises -- will be held June 20-22, 2001, at MIT in Cambridge. It will consist of six parallel, three-day workshops on different topics related to collaboration technology. Each workshop will include paper presentations and working group discussions, with additional joint keynote sessions and a final joint session to summarize each groups' findings. Submitted papers are due February 26. (2/3)

AgentLink issue 6, Jan 2001 -- Issue six of the agentlink newsletter features articles by Bernard Burg, Jonathan Dale and Steven Willmott on "Open Standards and Open Source for Agent-Based Systems", Steve Osborn on "The role of agents in business to business (B2B) electronic commerce, and Jeremy Pitt on "Let A Million Agents Bloom: Infohabitants and Universal Information EcoSystems". (2/3)

SWAG - Semantic Web Agreement Group -- The Semantic Web Agreement Group (SWAG) is "creating a strong infrastructure for the Semantic Web, whilst working with various members of the Web community to ensure data interoperability." They maintain "The SWAG Dictionary", a database of terms for the Semantic Web, and PURL, a site for "permanent URLs". (2/3)

Using Topic Maps -- Eric Freese, "Using Topic Maps for the representation, management and discovery of knowledge", XML Euorope 2000, June 2000. "...This paper will discuss topic maps and semantic networks and how the two concepts may interrelate. Issues with the topic map standard that make knowledge representation more discussed. Also a semantic network system built on topic maps will be presented." (2/2)

cfp: IEEE Standard Upper Ontology -- There will be a workshop on the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology at IJCAI August 4-6. It will provide an opportunity for participants in the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology study group to convene in person and make progress on this standards effort. It will provide an opportunity for a broader membership of the AI community to have impact on this standards effort. Submitted papers are due February 15. (1/31)

hp labs - agent technology -- "Our current research interests in agent technology span a number of disparate areas: e-commerce negotiation, artificial life, identity and privacy on the web. The underlying theme for this work is that we no longer see agent research as a separate activity, distinct from other areas of research endeavor. Instead, we aim to integrate agent and alife inspired solutions and technologies with research into the domain applications they can support. Our agent research team is now a collaboration of researchers in different application teams, different parts of the HPLabs organization - even different continents!" (1/31)

Infrastructure for Agents, MAS, and Scalable MAS -- The 2nd Workshop on Infrastructure for Agents, MAS, and Scalable MAS will be held in Montreal in conjunction with Autonomous Agents 2001 on May 28-June 1. (1/31)

cfp: Autonomy, Delegation, and Control: Interacting with Autonomous Agents -- The IJCAI-01 Workshop on Autonomy, Delegation, and Control: Interacting with Autonomous Agents will be held in Seattle on August 6, 2001 (1/31)

cfp: Novel E-Commerce Applications of Agents -- The AI-2001 Workshop on Novel E-Commerce Applications of Agents will be held at the AI 2001 (AI-2001) on June 7-9, 2001 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (1/29)

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