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Sims robot terrorizes Berkeley -- " Will Wright and his buddies are terrorizing the city of Berkeley again. They walk down University Avenue, sending their 250-pound “Reality Robot” into cafes, art stores and shopping centers. The robot is, frankly, deranged." (11/24)

For W3C, it's a question of semantics -- "In its continuing effort to make the Web more intelligent, the medium's leading standards group has published a series of drafts relevant to its Semantic Web activity. But don't call it artificial intelligence." (11/24)

The Robot Evolution -- This article from Industry week features Rod Brooks -- "MIT's Rodney A. Brooks is among researchers leading the charge to develop a smarter and more useful artificial creature. " (11/24)

Latest Directory Additions

Group Reputation and Norms -- Group Reputation Supports Beneficent Norms, David Hales, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation vol. 5, no. 4, 2002. This paper demonstrates the role of group normative reputation in the promotion of an aggression reducing possession norm in an artificial society. (11/24)

The Leviathan -- Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan, 1660. (11/24)

EXYSTENCE: The Complex Systems Network of Excellence -- "EXYSTENCE, a European Commission supported Network of Excellence (NoE) for Complex Systems, which maintains an online news page" (http://elpub.org/) (11/24)

SNARK Automated Reasoning Kit -- SNARK, a Common Lisp automated theorem prover developed at SRI, is now available under an open source license (Mozilla Public License). Snark's principal inference rules are resolution and paramodulation and it has support for special unification algorithms, sorts, nonclausal formulas, answer construction for program synthesis, procedural attachment, and extensibility by Lisp code. (11/19)

Agentcities Agent Technology Competition -- The Agentcities Agent Technology Competition has received 34 complete entries from all over the world - Australia and New Zealand, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, Estonia, Hungary, Russia, the Czech Republic, the USA, Japan and Europe. (11/18)

Agent technology roadmap -- AgentLink has produced a roadmap for agent technology that provides an assessment of the current state-of-the-art of agent-based computing, and to suggest important areas for future research and development, both for academia and industry. (11/18)

Intelligent Wireless Web -- The Intelligent Wireless Web, H. Peter Alesso and Craig F. Smith, Addison Wesley Professional; ISBN: 0201730634, December 2001). This work presents a vision of the Web's near future and overviews the technologies that will make it possible. It explores developments in speech recognition, mobile wireless devices, network integration, and software, examining the convergence and synergy among five key technological components: speech as a primary user interface; wireless personal area networks; an integrated wired/wireless network infrastructure; supporting wireless protocols; and intelligent applications. (11/11)

Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web -- Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web, David Weinberger, Perseus Publishing, ISBN: 0738205435, March, 2002. (11/11)

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution -- Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, Howard Rheingold, Perseus Publishing; ISBN: 0738206083, October 15, 2002. Author Rheingold explores scenarios in which mobile, wireless, net-connected devices are ubiquitous and can share information. (11/11)

Samsonite announces intelligent suitcase -- Samsonite has announced a new Bluetooth enabled suitcase -- it will know who it belongs to, where it should be going, and when it's lost. (11/11)

Coalition Agents eXperiment -- CoAX Binni 2002 -- The Coalition Agents eXperiment (CoAX) team presented their work on advanced agent technology to an invited international audience of VIPs at the historic Naval War College at Newport, R.I., USA. (11/11)

OWL Abstract Syntax and Semantics -- The W3C has released a document describing the abstract syntax and semantics of the OWL Web Ontology Language and also OWL lite, a subset of OWL. (11/11)

Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide -- The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is intended to provide a language that can be used to describe the classes and relations between them that are inherent in Web documents and applications. This document demonstrates the use of the OWL language to formalize a domain by defining classes and properties of those classes, define individuals and assert properties about them, and reason about these classes and individuals to the degree permitted by the formal semantics of the OWL language. (11/8)

Agent-based Marketplace for Personnel Acquisition -- A project at the the European University Viadrina in which you can create your own agents, provide them with your personal preferences, send them out to negotiate, and watch what they are doing. (11/8)

Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools -- This article on XML.COM discusses ontologies and the semantic web and includes the results of an extensive survey of tools for building and maintaining ontologies. (11/8)

Minsky on the emotional universe -- Marvin Minsky talks about the nature of the Universe, computer science and intelligence in video and text. (11/8)

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