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EBIQUITY.ORG -- Ebiquity is a a portal maintained by the UMBC mobile computing research group that has news and articles relevant to mobile computing, wireless technology and pervasive computing, much of it with an intelligent agents spin. You can visit this page to see, post, and engage in discussions around news items and articles on all aspects of mobile computing. (5/20)

Researchers Study Web Surfers -- An AP article on research at Xerox PARC on how people search the web -- "The same theories that describe how animals behave while sniffing for prey also can predict how people ferret out information in the jungle of cyberspace, researchers say. Foraging theories, developed by ecologists decades ago, are now being applied to Internet usage in an attempt to understand how Web sites can be made more intuitive and less like a maze" (5/19)

A Search Engine Goes Beyond Google -- Ilor.com offers a search engine that has some good usability features build on top of google's basic engine. (5/18)

Latest Directory Additions

agentland -- Agentland is a portal of information about software agents run by the French company Cybion. They also have an email newsletter. (5/20)

Thinks: A Novel -- A humorous novel set in fictitious University of Gloucester in England, revolves around its center for cognitive science and the various characters stance on the subject of whether or not machines can be conscious. (5/19)

Trust and Deception in Virtual Societies -- Trust and Deception in Virtual Societies, edited by by Cristiano Castelfranchi and Yao-Hua Tan, Kluwer Academic Publishers;, May 2001, ISBN: 079236919X. (5/19)

Moving Into Sun's JavaSpace -- The release on Wednesday of the J-Spaces platform by a startup company of the same name marks the first commercial venture based on Sun Microsystems's JavaSpaces concept, and could be the next step toward a more Napster-like, peer-to-peer, resource-sharing Web. (5/18)

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