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Latest News Items

Cycorp to release openCyc -- An expanded version of the Cyc Common Sense Knowledge Base will be made available this Summer in open access form under the name OpenCyc. Cycorp will also provide the Cyc Inference Engine and a suite of tools for creating knowledge based applications. (3/25)

These games play you -- Electronic Art's is developing an interactive game, Majestic, in which game characters reach out and interact with players via email and phone calls throughout the day. (3/25)

FIPA agent security cfi -- FIPA seeks input for it's standards in the area of security of agent systems with the overall aim of producing a white-paper on agent security and standard specifications for agent security. Preliminary work including specifications, models such as trust models, designs and implementations are also welcome. (3/25)

FIPA-OS 2.0 released -- Version 2.0 of FIPA-OS has been released. FIPA-OS is an open-source component-based toolkit enabling rapid development of FIPA compliant agents. (3/25)

Robots Can Learn Much From High-Tech Playthings -- At the annual Toy Fair last month, the huge annual show in New York where the toy industry promotes its newest creations, robots were everywhere. (NYT) (3/24)

BW Online: Robots -- They're beginning to walk, talk, and, yes, think like people. Is the age of the robo sapien just around the corner? (Businessweek Online) (3/24)

NEC's PaPeRo -- A talking robot clever enough to heal family rifts may sound like science fiction. But the makers of PaPeRo (Partner-type Personal Robot) claim that it can smooth things out when families are no longer on speaking terms. (3/24)

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) -- The Tenth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management will be held November 6-9, 2001 in Atlanta. CIKM's scope includes advanced databases, information retrieval and intelligent systems. Papers abstracts are due May 21 and full papers, and proposals for tutorials, workshops and panes are due May 28. (3/4)

Agents for handheld, mobile and embedded devices -- Papers are sought for a special track of the ATAL-2001 workshop on the use of agent technology for hand-held, mobile or embedded devices. The ATAL workshop will be held in Seattle on August 1-3, 2001. and aims to bring together researchers interested in the agent-level, micro aspects of agent technology. Specifically, ATAL-2000 will address issues such as theories of rational agency, software architectures for intelligent agents, methodologies and programming languages for realising agents, and software tools for applying and evaluating agent systems. Papers that consider macro-level, societal issues of agent-based systems are welcome if they explicitly relate to the workshop themes. Papers are due April 6, 2001. (2/25)

Latest Directory Additions

NeuroGrid -- NeuroGrid is a P2P system for searching the web, a kind of Napster for bookmarks and is based on the idea of automating the process we use in human society to find out things that we want to know, or the locations of things that we need. (3/25)

NASA Radical agents concepts workshop -- The first GSFC/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts (WRACD) will be held 26th-28th September, 2001 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA. (3/20)

Collaborative Filtering Research Papers -- A collection of research papers on collaborative filtering. (3/20)

Scraping Exchange -- This site is an exchange forum for developers and users of web-scraping software, that is, software which uses knowledge of a web site's conventions and format to parse its content automatically. (3/20)

BIAP's GOtrieve -- Gotrieve is a agent-based web scraping applications which allows users to create multiple 'agents' to monitor information on one or mare web pages and display the results in a personal web page. (3/20)

Repository of FIPA agent Specifications -- The FIPA specifications for agents standards are available in both pdf and html form. (2/25)

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