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AOL uses neural-network based web filter -- AOL has begun using a new neural-network filtering system developed by RuleSpace to power its "parental control" options for kids, young teens and older teens. (5/9)

Mind reading ability helps organize thinking -- An article in Monitor on Psychology by Siri Carpenter talks about a recent series of studies led by Paul Bloom which explore how children's understanding of their own and others' mental states shapes their most basic understanding of the world around them. (5/5)

Latest Directory Additions

Simple Agent Communication Infrastructure -- Saci stands for Simple Agent Communication Infrastructure. It is a tools that(i) enable agents to communicate by KQML messages, and (ii) manage the execution of the agents through an network. (5/13)

opencola.com -- Opencola.com is a company develops collaborative filtering systems (5/13)

Feed Magazine interview with Cory Doctorow -- A Feed Magazine interview with Cory Doctorow on the OpenCola collaborative filtering system, described a ""It's Tivo for the Internet.". (5/13)

grub.org -- grub.org has release an open source client which becomes part of a distributed p2p-like web indexing system. (5/13)

Prolog and RDF -- Bijan Parsia has an introduction using Prolog for process RDF statements on O'Reilly's XML.com website. (5/9)

RuleSpace -- RuleSpace, Inc., a privately held corporation located in Portland, Oregon, develops and offers neural-network driven products for web content recognition and filtering. (5/9)

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1 -- WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. WSDL is being developed by Ariba, IBM and Microsoft and is designed to work with UDDI and SOAP. (4/29)

Buffalo Ontology Site -- A good site on ontologies hosted by the SUNY Buffalo Department of Philosophy and maintained by Barry Smith. (4/29)

In defense of massive modularity -- Cognitive Scientist Dan Sperber defends "massive modularity" and discusses "the the degree to which cognitive development, everyday cognition, and cultural knowledge are based on dedicated domain-specific mechanisms, as opposed to a domain-general intelligence and learning capacity." (4/28)

Computers taught to detect emotions in human voices -- A new computer can detect signs of a range of emotional states in the voices of users, including anger, fear and disgust. (4/28)

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