"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think." -- Niels Bohr

Latest News Items

Search Engines Ready to Learn -- An article in the May 2001 issue of Technology Review on Whizbang and their attempts to use ML technologies for web searching and classification. (4/27)

MS Office Helper Not Dead Yet -- "Clippy, the Microsoft Office character that pops up to assist users -- often at the least-helpful times -- won't automatically show up in Office XP. But a Microsoft researcher working on the logic behind Clippy said that, although the implementation may be off, the technology it is based on is one the company's cornerstones for future products." (4/19)

Scientists teach computer to speak -- Dutch-based firm Artificial Intelligence (AI) caused a stir in technology circles recently by claiming to have developed a computer that had learnt language to the level of a 15 month-old child (4/18)

The Robot With the Mind of an Eel -- A Washington post article on experiments in fusing tissue and technology in machines. (4/18)

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

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

Latest Directory Additions

AA'01 Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems -- The program for the Autonomous Agents 2001 Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems is available and includes ten long papers. The workshop will be held at Autonomous Agents 2001 in Montreal, Canada, on May 29, 2001. (4/27)

Ubiquitous Computing -- Web pages by the late Mark Weiser (Xerox Parc) who was an early advocate of the concept of ubiquitous computing. (4/27)

MIT Oxygen Project -- The goal of the Oxygen project is to ... bring an abundance of computation and communication to users through natural spoken and visual interfaces, making it easy for them to collaborate, access knowledge, and automate repetitive tasks. (4/27)

Ambient Intelligence -- AN overview of the concept of ambient intelligence -- electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people -- by Philips Research Labs. (4/27)

Sesame: opening the door to the Semantic Web -- Sesame is an RDF Schema-based Repository and Querying facility. It is being developed by Aidministrator Nederland bv as one of the key deliverables in the European IST project On-To-Knowledge.Sesame supports expressive querying of RDF data and schema information, using an OQL-style query language, called RQL (4/24)

22nd FIPA meeting in Sendai, Japan,, July 2001 -- The 22nd meeting of the FIPA standards group will be held in Sendai, Japan from 23-27 July, 2001 at the kind invitation of Communication Technologies. The quarterly FIPA meetings are free and open to FIPA members and interested non-members who are willing to actively contribute to the FIPA process. More information on how to participate in FIPA can be found at http://fipa.org/. (4/24)

SUO Ontology Browser -- Adam Pease of Teknowledge is running a simple ontology browser for the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology effort. (4/24)

Tool for Intelligent Conceptual Modeling -- ICOM is an advanced CASE tool developed by Enrico Franconi at the University of Manchester that allows the user to design multiple extended Entity-Relationship diagrams with inter- and intra-schema constraints. Complete logical reasoning is employed by the tool to verify the specification, infer implicit facts, devise stricter constraints, and manifest any inconsistency. (4/24)

Playing God -- An interview from Feed Magazine with Black and While designer Mark Van de Walle on the current role of AI in games. (4/20)

topicmaps.net -- A site by Michel Biezunski and Steve Newcomb with information about topic maps and related semantic web technologies. (4/17)

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)

About Agentnews