"Artificial Intelligence cannot avoid philosophy. If a computer program is to behave intelligently in the real world, it must be provided with some kind of framework into which to fit particular facts it is told or discovers. This amounts to at least a fragment of some kind of philosophy, however naive." -- John McCarthy

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Cheese worm is a helpful Linux virus -- A helpful virus is making its way around the web, checking computers for vulnerabilities and closing them. (5/24)

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DAML-S Service Description Ontology -- DAML-S is a DAML-based Web service ontology, which supplies Web service providers with a core set of markup language constructs for describing the properties and capabilities of Web services in unambiguous, computer-interpretable form. DAML-S markup of Web services will facilitate the automation of Web service tasks including automated Web service discovery, execution, composition and interoperation. (6/4)

Operational Text Classification 2001: CFP -- The Workshop on Operational Text Classification Systems will be held in New Orleans on September 13, 2001 in conjunction with ACM SIGIR 2001 September 9-13, 2001 (6/4)

Web as Database: New Extraction Technologies and Content Management -- "The Web as Database: New Extraction Technologies and Content Management" by Katherine C. Adams (Online, March 2001) is a nice overview of information extraction technology. The introductory article focuses on NLP and web wrapper induction. (6/4)

Workshop on Middleware for Mobile Computing -- Workshop on Middleware for Mobile Computing November 16, 2001, Heidelberg, Germany In association with IFIP/ACM Middleware 2001 Conference (6/4)

Anatomy of the Grid -- Ian Foster, Carl Kesselmann and Steven Tuecke, The Anatomy of the Grid, Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations. In this white paper, the authors describe the Grid as a "distributed computing infrastructure for advanced science and engineering". (6/4)

Software Services Grid Workshop -- On, July 10, in conjunction with the OMG meeting near Boston, there will be a Workshop dedicated to the metadata and modeling standards required for the next generation of federated Internet Computing (e.g. Grids). Speakers at the workshop will include members of the OMG, W3C, Global Grid Forum, DAML, and ebXML presenting individual perspectives. (6/4)

New Scientist: First among equals -- "New techniques are making the Gnutella file-sharing network flourish, but may be taking away the key benefits of pure peer-to-peer networking. The peak number of simultaneous Gnutella users reached more than 40,000 in May, according to a monitoring company called Clip2. This is 20 times more than could originally connect to the network." (6/4)

Understanding Agent Systems -- Understanding Agent Systems (Springer Series on Agent Technology), Mark D'Inverno and Michael Luck (Eds), Springer, June 2001, ISBN: 3540419756. This book presents a formal approach to dealing with agents and agent systems using the Z specification language to establish an accessible and unified formal account of agent systems and inter-agent relationships. The approach provides precise and unambiguous meanings for common concepts and terms for agent systems, allows for the description of alternative agent models and architectures, and serves as a foundation for subsequent development of increasingly refined agent concepts. (6/4)

Friends and Neighbors on the Web -- A paper by Lada A. Adamic and Eytan Adar of Xerox Parc which describes their experiments in mining web pages to build models of human social networks. It has a Java applet which visualizes their results. (6/4)

Hailstorm: Open Web Services Controlled by Microsoft -- AN article on OpenP2P.com by Clay Shirky describes Microsoft's new Hailstorm system, which is "Microsoft's bid to put some meat on the bones of its .NET initiative." Hailstorm encodes data in XML and provides access via SOAP. (6/1)

Narval Project - Intelligent Personnal Assistant -- Narval is an open-sourced framework (language + interpreter + GUI/IDE) dedicated to the setting up of intelligent personal assistants (IPAs). (5/25)

Workshop on Recommender Systems -- The SIGIR 2001 Workshop on Recommender Systems will be held on Thursday, September 13th in New Orleans. (5/20)

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