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Winged robot learns to fly -- Krister Wolff and Peter Nordin (Chalmers University) built a winged robot and set about testing whether it could learn to fly by itself, without any pre-programmed data on what flapping is or how to do it. (8/14)

Agentcities Agent Technology Competition -- Win up to 6000 Euros and other prizes for the best Agent infrastructure and application technology for open environments including special prizes for systems deployed in the Agentcities Agent network (http://www.agentcities.org). (8/13)

Man versus Machine, the sequel -- Gary Kasparov, the highest ranked human chess player, will play a series of games in early October against Israeli program Deep Junior. (8/13)

Gnutella bandwidth bandits -- "The file-trading network's developers are discovering that even their wide-open, free-for-all technology might need a little policing." (8/9)

2002 Trading Agents Competition finals -- In the final competition held at AAAI, Cornell won the trading agent competition with Southhampton, Essex and UMBC placing 2-4. (8/5)

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Next generation data mining -- An NSF sponsored workshop on Next Generation Data Mining will be held in Baltimore USA on 1-3 Nov 2002. Focus topics include: data mining for (1) pervasive, distributed, and stream applications, (2) counter-terrorism, (3) scientific applications, and (4) the web. Papers and demonstration proposals should be submitted by 20 September 2002. (8/15)

RDFWeb -- RDFWeb explores some interconnected applications of the semantic web. It features a distributed RDF-indexed photo archive, the friend-of-a-friend information linking system, and various other fun things. Feel free to use the RDFWebWiki to add links and suggestions. (8/14)

Semantic Web Club -- (8/14)

Affective Computing -- This web site by the MIT Media Lab's Affective Computing Research Group focuses on "creating personal computational systems endowed with the ability to sense, recognize, and understand human emotions, together with the skills to respond in an intelligent, sensitive, and respectful manner toward the user and his/her emotions." (8/14)

Grand Coalition -- The Grand Coalition web site provides information and resources about research in cooperative and noncooperative game theory with an emphasis on coalition formation. (ACE News) (8/14)

CommunityViz -- Researchers at PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting have developed software called CommunityViz as an aid for community planning. with a core forecasting component implemented as an agent-based model to be tailored to the specifications of whatever community is under study. (ACE News) (8/14)

Individual-Based Fish Modeling -- Researchers at Humboldt State University are working on the agent-based simulation of ecological systems, particularly of fish communities. This research is a collaboration of mathematicians, stream ecologists, fish biologists, environmental engineers, and software professionals. (ACE News) (8/14)

Simulation software for Complex Adaptive Systems -- Robert Goldstone (Indiana University) maintains a site titled Software for Demonstrating Complex Adaptive Systems for an undergraduate course on complex adaptive systems. (ACE News) (8/14)

IGDA to develop standards for AI in games -- The IGDA's AI Interface Standards Committee is a joint effort of game AI developers, academics, middleware representatives and other relevant experts. The Committee will develop interface standards in such areas as pathfinding, steering, decision trees, finite state machines, rule-based systems, goal-oriented action planning and world interfacing. (8/14)

Java Rule Engine API -- JSR 94 is an initial specification of a Java runtime API for rule engines which is being developed under the Java Community Process. (8/14)

Does XML Suck? -- This site (http://xmlsucks.org/but_you_have_to_use_it_anyway/) has a slides prepared by Aaron Crane on the downsides of XML technology. The slides were prepared in XML. (8/14)

Quicksilver agent simulation environment -- Quicksilver is an agent based simulation environment in Java and released under LGPL. (8/9)

Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance -- Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science is a report of a NSF/DOC-sponsored workshop from December 2001 which ranged from expanding human cognition and communication to improving human health to strengthening national security. (8/7)

M.Sc. Intelligent and MAS -- A postgraduate program of study offered by the University of Westminster, UK. This course gives an in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the fields of symbolic and non-symbolic artificial intelligence within the context of their application to agent-based systems. (8/6)

Virtual Conversational Characters: Applications, Methods, and Research Challenges -- HF2002 and OZCHI2002 Workshop: Virtual Conversational Characters - Applications, Methods, and Research Challenges. 29th November, 2002. Melbourne, Australia. This fullday workshop will bring both established and new researchers together to discuss the development, implementation and evaluation of VCC interface systems, the current VCC state-of-the-art and to create a vision for the future of VCC interface technology. Workshop papers are to be submitted by the 19th September. (8/6)

The Semantic Grid -- "Our vision of the infrastructure that is needed to support the full richness of the e-Science vision draws on research and development in both the Grid and the Semantic Web, and adopts a service-oriented approach. We call it the Semantic Grid." (8/6)

W3C publishes OWL web ontology drafts -- The W3C Web Ontology Working Group has released three first Working Drafts. The Feature Synopsis, Abstract Syntax and Language Reference describe the OWL Web Ontology Language 1.0 and its subset OWL Lite. (8/5)

Agentcities task force -- Agentcities task force was launched at the AAMAS conference in Bologna in July 2002. (8/5)

Review of agent took kits for teaching -- Agent toolkits: a general overview of the market and an assessment of instructor satisfaction with utilizing toolkits in the classroom, Alexander Serenko and Brian Detlor, McMaster University, Working Paper 455, July, 2002. (8/5)

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