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Latest News Items

JADE 2.2 released -- Version 2.2 of the JADE agent development platform has been released. (4/15)

online buzz for AI -- The advertizing campaing for the upcoming Spielberg movie AI includes web sites for ficticious organizations and characters, including robot therapist Jeanine Salla. (4/15)

Digital hormones for robots -- Behnam Salemi and his colleagues at the ISI have found a way to make resourceful robots - digital hormones. (4/14)

Extreme Robotics: Amazing Feet -- A Technology Review article about Geckobots—small, wall-climbing robots inspired by the agile lizard. (4/10)

New 'Bots" Tell Us How to Invest -- Online -- A NYT article on a "simulated financial helper who resides on www.pioneerfunds.com, a Web site operated by the Pioneer mutual fund family, which was acquired last year by UniCredito Italiano, Italy's largest banking group. " (4/9)

Can Computers Make Decisions? -- The March 2001 issue of iMP (Magazine on Information Impacts) is devoted to the problems in getting machines to make intelligent decisions. it includes short articles by George Miller and Roger Schank. (3/29)

Latest Directory Additions

Descriptive and Formal Ontology -- Resource guide edited by Raul Corazzon on contemporary ontology, with essays, charts and bibliographies of the most important ontologists (4/15)

The Mechanization of the Mind -- The Mechanization of the Mind, Jean Pierre Dupuy, M. B. Debevoise, December 2000, Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691025746. "A profound and beautifully written book, The Mechanization of the Mind brings back to life the intellectual brilliance and excitement that attended the birth of cognitive science more than fifty years ago, and recasts our understanding of the history of the twentieth century thought. " (4/14)

Cometway Java Agent Kernel -- Cometway's JAK is an open-sourced, light-weight agent platform that the company uses in developing it's own agent-based products. (4/11)

Cometway -- Cometway is a Pittsburgh based company which offers: (1) a platform for building autonomous embedded systems, and (2) ready to use agents that let consumers and businesses benefit from agents immediately. (4/11)

Stickman Logic -- Modern logic meets modern art. (4/10)

CoABS Grid -- The CoABS Grid is a framework for federating heterogeneous agent systems. It is being developed as part of a DARPA-sponsored research program and is designed to meet the challenges of the military environment, as well as address the heterogeneity among the participating agent research communities. (4/10)

HyperDAML -- HyperDAML is a tool which produces an HTML hypertext version of a DAML or RDF document, providing fragments for IDs, and links to referenced resources (links to referenced namespaces, classes, and properties may be added in the future). It is currently a proof-of-concept implementation of the Hypertext DAML Ontologies item on the DAML Tools Wishlist (although it is also useful for instance content). Roughly, HyperDAML does for DAML and RDF what Hypermail does for email messages. (4/10)

Scientific American: The Semantic Web -- A feature article in the Scientific American on the semantic web. (4/10)

DAML+OIL (March 2001) -- A new version of DAML+OIL, the DARPA Agent Markup Language, has been released. DAML+OIL is intended as a language for implementing the "semantic web". (4/9)

SAINT2002 -- The 2002 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet will have a special track on agents and the internet. The conference will be held in Nara, Japan between Jan.28 and Feb.1, 2002 (3/31)

George Miller on "Ambiguous Words" -- "If I accomplish nothing else in this story, I hope I will persuade you that human language is so vague and ambiguous that only a very clever brain could possibly understand it." (3/29)

Automatic meta tagging -- Hiawatha Island Software Company has released HiSoftware Metadata Server, enabling organizations to automatically label Microsoft Office and "web-bound" documents with descriptive metadata. (3/29)

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