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Latest News Items

Portugal to Host 2004 World Robot-Soccer Tournament -- Portugal was awarded with the organization of the Robocup 2004 world tournament by Robocup Federation. The tournament will take place on June 27-July 3, 2004 in Lisbon, and will coincide with the European Cup also in Portugal. (7/7)

Approximating Life -- A NYT article on Richard Wallace, creator of the Alice eliza-like bot. (7/7)

Robocup2002 results -- the results of the 2002 RoboCup competition are available. (6/30)

Robots R US (J@pan.inc) -- An article on Japanese robots, that explores the historical background to robot development in Japan, the special cultural relationship with robots, and introduces the first open source robot. (6/30)

Latest Directory Additions

BEAM Robotics -- The term BEAM is an acronym for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics and Mechanics. BEAM robotics was invented (and is patented) by Dr Mark W. Tilden whilst he was a student at University in Canada. BEAM robots do not use computers or microcontrollers as brains they have 'hard-wired' electronic control systems. Generally they are much cheaper to build than computer controlled robots. (7/7)

AAAI Spring Symposium on Agent-mediated Knowledge Management -- The AAAI Spring Symposium on Agent-mediated Knowledge Management will be held March 24-26, 2003 at Stanford University. Deadline for abstracts and submitted papers is October 4, 2002. (7/7)

DARPA FACT FILE  A Compendium of DARPA Programs -- Short summaries of selected DARPA programs, intended as a ready reference for those interested in DARPA’s research portfolio (7/7)

NetLogo -- NetLogo is the new cross-platform agent-based parallel modeling and simulation environment developed by the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling at Northwestern University. (7/7)

Distributed Computing: An Introduction -- In this introductory article on extremetech.com, Leon Erlanger covers the basics of distributed computing. (6/30)

AOR.rezearch.info -- AORML is an agent-oriented modeling language developed by Gerd Wagner where an entity is either an agent, an event, an action, a claim, a commitment, or an ordinary object. (6/30)

robots.net - Robot and Robotics Info -- An online robotics community. Updated daily with robotics and AI news, user weblogs, and the largest robot gallery on The Internet. (6/30)

Tryllian -- Tryllian introduces the latest release of the Agent Development Kit (ADK), a mobile component-based development platform that allows you to build reliable and scalable industrial strength applications. The ADK features dynamic tasking, JXTA-based P2P architecture with XML message-based communication that supports FIPA and SOAP, JNDI directory services, using a reliable, lightweight runtime environment based on Java. (6/30)

ESAW'02 Workshop -- The sequel to successful editions in 2000 and 2001, ESAW'02 remains committed to the use of the notion of multi- agent systems as seed for animated, constructive, and highly inter-disciplinary discussions about technologies, methodologies, and tools for the engineering of complex distributed applications. (6/30)

Online multilingual text summarization (pertinence.net) -- Pertinence Summarizer creates concise automatic summary or abstract of text material. Several formats of texts including html, pdf, ms word are accepted. Original text can be in one of several languages. (6/30)

Workshop on Security of Mobile Multiagent Systems -- The program for the second workshop on Security of Mobile Multiagent Systems (SEMAS-2002) to be held 16 July 2002 at the University of Bologna in conjunction with AAMAS, is available. (6/30)

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