"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am'." -- Ambrose Bierce

23rd FIPA meeting -- The 23rd meeting of the FIPA agents standards organization will be held in Pleasanton CA (outside San Francisco) from 8-12 October, 2001 hosted by Sandia National Laboratories. A preliminary agenda is available and hotel rooms should be booked by 21 September, 2001. 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/. (9/12)

Like human, like machine -- Brian Aldis, who wrote the story "Supertoys last all summer long" on which the movie AI was based, reacts to the film and the idea that a human-like consciousness could ever be programmed into a machine (9/20)

Markup Languages: Comparison and Examples -- Yolanda Gil and Varun Ratnakar of ISI have compiled a comparison table identifying the tradeoffs and differences among web markup languages. It compares XML, RDF, and DAML by showing a description and examples of how each language addresses common knowledge representation requirements. (9/25)

dynnet -- Dynet is a yahoo groups mailing list which aims to exchange ideas, papers and news about the modeling of the evolution and the dynamics of networks (social, Web and so on) (9/25)

Agent-Based Computational Economics -- Leigh Tesfatsion's (Economics, Iowa State University) undergraduate course on Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) is intended to introduce, motivate, and explore through concrete applications the potential usefulness of the ACE methodology for the study of economics. (9/25)

Ps-i -- Ps-i is an environment for running agent-based simulations. It is cross-platform, with binaries available for Win32. Features include: declarative language for model specification; industry standard Tcl/Tk scripting; built-in routine optimization, speculative evaluation, and xf86 JIT compiler that permit the creation of complex models without sacrificing performance; user-friendly interface; ability to save and restore program runs; ability to change model parameters on the fly; and data visualization. (9/25)

Machines to talk intelligently on Web -- "Machines to talk intelligently on Web" is an article by Dan Gilmore in the San Jose Mercury News on the semantic web. (9/21)

Ontologies in Agent Systems (OAS'01) -- The proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Montreal, May 29, 2001,) edited by Stephen Cranefield, Tim Finin, and Steve Willmott. (9/20)

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