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AAMAS Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents -- A workshop on ubiquitous agents on embedded, wearable, and mobile devices the University of Bologna in conjunction with the 2002 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (submit papers by 22 April). (2/19)

Agentcities initiative -- Agentcities is a global, open collaborative initiative involving researchers and projects from many countries and research areas. Our objective is to construct a worldwide, open network of on-line systems hosting diverse agent based services which can interact with one another dynamically, autonomously and intelligently to form new compound services. (2/24)

Say Hello To Asimo -- "The household robot has been a central idea of science fiction for decades. As with so many facets of science fiction in recent years, science fact is starting to catch up. ... Honda hopes to sell thousands of Asimo units to people with disabilities who need a little help around the house. So far, this robot seems up to the task. It can climb and descend stairs (with the help of special markers), shake hands and, at 4 feet tall and 115 pounds, is too short and light to be considered threatening." (Forbes) (2/23)

AI Reboots -- "Artificial intelligence" used to mean robots that think like people; now it means software for rejecting junk e-mail. Low expectations could yield better applications, sooner." (Technology Review) (2/21)

Introduction to MultiAgent Systems -- Introduction to MultiAgent Systems, Michael Woolridge, (256 pages, paperback, June, 2002, John Wiley and Sons, isbn:047149691X) is intended for use as an undergraduate textbook. Supporting teaching resources are available on line at http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw/pubs/imas/. (2/24)

FIPA Inform v2n3 -- The FIPA Inform newsletter volume 2 number 3 describes the results of the Pleasonton meeting, the agentcities project and has profiles of two members -- Siemens and Sandia. (2/23)

25th FIPA Meeting, 6-10 May, Vancouver -- The 25th meeting of the FIPA standards group will be held in Vancouver, Canada from 6 - 10 May, 2002 hosted by the University of Calgary. 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/. (2/23)

FIPA agents in ad hoc networking environments -- The FIPA (http://fipa.org/) Ad-Hoc Technical Committee has issued a Call for Technology seeking proposals to enhance interoperability between FIPA agents operating in ad-hoc environments. Requirements include: (1) Definition of possible agent platform fragments, which can form dynamically a compound; (2) Definition of mechanisms and protocols for agent platform fragments to build, release, join and leave compounds; and (3) o Usage of existing approaches which provide support on different levels (e.g., Bluetooth ad-hoc networks, JXTA P2P approach). (2/23)

Workshop on Agents in Computer Games -- A Workshop on Agents in Computer Games at The 3rd International Conference on Computers and Games (co-located with AAAI and UAI 2002) on July 27, 2002 in Edmonton, Canada. (2/23)

AAAI Workshop on Agent-based Systems for IR -- A workshop on agent-based IR will be held in conjunction with AAAI 02 -- papers are due March 15. (2/23)

The Lemur Toolkit for Language Modeling and Information Retrieval -- The Lemur Toolkit for Language Modeling and Information Retrieval provides a framework for text information retrieval (IR), leveraging work on language modeling from other areas such as speech recognition and statistical natural language processing. The Lemur Toolkit is designed to facilitate research in language modeling and information retrieval, where IR is broadly interpreted to include such technologies as ad hoc and distributed retrieval, cross-language IR, summarization, filtering, and classification. (El.pub) (2/23)

Web services interoperability org -- WS-I is an open, industry organization chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages. (2/23)

Phibot -- Phibot.org is a collaborative research project of the University of Mainz, the German Research Center of Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and brainbot technologies AG which is aiming to produce a new web search engine for scientists. As part of the Adaptive Read Project, phibot is a web-based experiment for collaborative information retrieval attempting to carry out research into query reformulation on a large scale Internet search engine. (Elpub) (2/23)

It's Alive! -- The March 2002 issue of Wired features a set of articles on AI on its cover -- "From airport tarmacs to online job banks to medical labs, AI is everywhere. " (2/23)

Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us -- In Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us (Feb 02, Pantheon Books, isbn:0375420797), MIT Professor Rod Brooks, describes his vision of the future, intertwined destinies of humans and machines. (2/23)

AAAI Workshop on Planning with and for Multiagent Systems -- The AAAI Workshop on Planning With and For Multiagent Systems will be held prior to AAAI in Edmonton, Canada, on Sunday, July 28, and Monday, July 29. The submission deadline of March 15. (2/23)

AAMAS Workshop on Agentcities -- A workshop on Agentcities: Challenges in Open Agent Environments will be held at the 1st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in Bologna on 15th or 16th July. Submissions are due on 15 April. (2/23)

AAMAS 2002 Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems -- A workshop on ontologies in agent systems will be help on July 15 or 16 in conjunction with the 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems in Bologna. (2/22)

Hypernets -- Good (G)news for Gnutella -- This article by Neil Gunther discusses the bandwidth limitations inherent in Gnutella's interconnection topology and presents performance models for several plausible hyper-topologies which offer near linear scalability. (2/19)

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