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The Drone Armies Are Coming -- In what sounds like another improbable Star Wars defense system, the Office of Naval Research is working on a drone army that it hopes will be operational by 2020. (8/30)

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UMBC Cogito -- The UMBC Cogito group is an interdisciplinary federation of faculty, research staff, and students who are doing research on the theory and practice of cognitive information systems. (8/30)

Emerging Semantic Web -- The Emerging Semantic Web, edited by Isabel Cruz, Stefan Decker, Jerome Euzenat, and Deborah McGuinness, contains selected papers from the first Semantic web working symposium (Volume 75, Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications series, IOS press, Amsterdam). (8/30)

DAML Query Language -- DAML Query Language (DQL) provides a language and protocol for agent-to-agent query-answering dialogues using knowledge represented in DAML+OIL potentially involving inference and remote knowledge bases. (8/30)

Future Directions for Mobile Agent Research -- David Kotz, Robert Gray, and Daniela Rus, Future Directions for Mobile Agent Research, IEEE Distributed Systems, August 2002. "The field of mobile agents should shift its emphasis toward mobile code, in all its forms, rather than continue focusing on mobile agents." (8/22)

Starthis, Inc. - Machine Control Software -- Starthis, Inc is a distributed machine control software company that uses rule based control to coordinate industrial machines exposed as production oriented services. The result is machines that are easier to operate and easier to integrate with enterprise software systems. (8/22)

Whitestein Technologies -- Whitestein Technologies' mission is to provide industrial-grade software agent based solutions, technologies, and services, in particular combined with other leading-edge technologies such as mobile wireless computing, web services, or ubiquitous computing, and well-integrated with "traditional", non-agent based state-of-the-art technologies and products. Application areas include telecommunications, financial services, and health care. (8/22)

Apple knowledge navigator video -- Many years ago, Hugh Dubberly and Doris Mitsch of Apple wrote a great technology-forecast film/commercial -- The Knowledge Navigator -- which is still exciting today (15MB quicktime). (8/21)

27th FIPA Meeting, 14-18 Oct 2002, Pensacola FL -- The 27th meeting of the FIPA standards group will be held in Pensacola, Florida from 14 - 18 October, 2002 hosted by the University of West Florida, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. 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/. (8/21)

Agent UML -- AUML is an agent-based extension (or profile) to UML. (8/21)

CognIT a.s -- CognIT a.s is a Norwegian company specializing in applications for the oil and gas industry which use Intelligent Agent Technology, Artificial Intelligence based products (Computational Linguistics, Knowledge Representation, Ontology Building, Data and Text Mining) and Knowledge Management/GroupWare (8/16)

Information Research: an international electronic journal -- The volume 7 number 4 (July 2002) issue of Information Research is a special issue on the semantic web. (8/16)

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)

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