The Paradox of Life A bit beyond perception's reach I sometimes believe I see that Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key. -- Piet Hein

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Kiss me, you human -- A Christian Science Monitor article..."It's the astonishing growth in real-world artificial-intelligence technology that is forcing thinkers, theologians, philosophers, and the public to reexamine some age-old fundamental philosophical questions with a new vigor and urgency. Is it possible to replicate human consciousness in machines? If so, then what does that tell us about consciousness? What does it mean to be human?" (6/30)

2002 SIGART Autonomous Agents Award -- ACM SIGART, in collaboration with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, has instituted an annual award for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. The award is intended to recognize researchers whose current work is an important influence on the field. The award is an official ACM award, funded by an endowment created by ACM SIGART from the proceeds of previous Autonomous Agents conferences. The award committee is now seeking nominations for next year's award. If you wish to place a nomination, complete the form below and send it to Lewis Johnson (johnson@isi.edu). Nominations are requested no later than July 6, 2001. (6/30)

AI for the New Millennium -- A NYT article on the state of AI: "...Artificial intelligence is now a regular academic discipline. It is already embedded in many everyday products. And it helps businesses sort through and make sense of huge databases...." (6/30)

Multimedia Bed -- Imagine a bed that gently wakes you up at the crack of dawn and reminds you of your upcoming appointments. (6/24)

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Agents 2001 Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems -- Papers from the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems held at the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents are now online. (7/1)

Persona-Bots -- "Triumph PC Group is a Washington, DC-based technology company specializing in Persona-Bots™-- Artificial Intelligence-based chat robots that we inhabit with unique human personalities using the subject's own words. " (6/30)

agentlab.de -- agentlab is the home of the MASSIVE development method. It also provides additional information on Software Engineering in general and for multiagent systems in particular. (6/30)

JXTA Search: A look at the future of searching -- An interview with Gene Kan and Steve Waterhouse on JXTA Search, the marriage of P2P searching with Sun's Project JXTA, holds out the promise of turning searching into a real-time endeavor, rather than being based on historical indices. (6/29)

Machine Learning textbook slides -- Tom Mitchell made available the slides drawn from his book on ML: Machine Learning, Tom Mitchell, McGraw-Hill, 1997. (6/25)

Wordnet : An Electronic Lexical Database -- Wordnet : An Electronic Lexical Database (Language, Speech and Communication) by Christiane Fellbaum (Editor), George Miller (Preface), 500 pages (March 1998) MIT Press; ISBN: 026206197X (6/25)

WordNet -- WordNet® is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets. (6/25)

Location/Context Aware Personal Communication -- Resources and links on location and contest aware issues. (6/24)

Context-Aware Applications Survey -- A survey paper by Mari Korkea-aho of the Helsinki University of Technology. "The paper discusses also how and what kind of context information could be used in ad-hoc networks. In ad-hoc networks context information can be used in establishing the network, in routing protocols, and in applications." (6/24)

Context Aware Computing at Cornell -- A research group at Cornell is focused on evaluating context aware systems in real world user and in systems that allow the users to contribute information about a context of use (both implicitly and explicitly) that other users can benefit from. (6/24)

Context-Aware Computing -- The MIT Context Aware Computing group is interested in using "context knowledge" such as what we do, what we have done, where we are and how we feel about it, in order to interact with the environment around us. By understanding and using the contextual reality of a situation, we hope to redefine computer-human interaction. (6/24)

AAMAS 2002 -- the International Conference on Autonomous Agents; ICMAS the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems; ATAL the international Workshop on Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages, decided to build on their past successes and converge in 2002 in a Joint Event: The first International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002) to be held July 15-19, 2002 in Plazzo del Enzo, Bologna, Italy. (6/24)

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