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I, Robot, the movie -- Fox has announced that Will Smith has been signed to star in the movie adaptation of Asimov's "I, Robot". (12/5)

Google News fixated on cricket? -- "Google's News Machine: What happens when you take humans out of the story-selection process?" (Atlantic) (12/2)

Amazon, Google lead new path to Web services -- "After much hype, confusion and skepticism, a handful of Internet companies are trying to do something that has stubbornly eluded the high-tech industry: Turn the vague concept of "Web services" into a reality for the greater Internet. " (12/2)

Gentlemen, Start Your Robots -- "Self-reliant roadsters will race for a hefty Pentagon prize." (Technology Review) (12/1)

Immobots Take Control -- "From photocopiers to space probes, machines injected with robotic self-awareness are reliable problem solvers." (Technology Review) (12/1)

(Ask) Jeeves gets a phone -- Internet search engine Ask Jeeves is launching a phone-based service offering 24-hour services such as travel and restaurant booking, and personal shopping. The UK-based service will charge Ž£299 a year (11/27)

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A natural order for expressing semantic relations? -- Newly published research indicates that word order is not driven solely by the demands of communicating information to another, but may reflect a more general property of human thought. (nibbs newsletter) (12/8)

Prey: A Novel: when agents go bad -- Michael Chrichton's new novel has a protagonist who is a MAS researcher who's decided to be a stay-at-home dad. Unfortunately, his wife, also a MAS researcher, is deeply involved in a secret project to develop self-replicating nanotechnology and the prototypes are all too successful. (12/8)

Wearable computing and agents -- Multiagent systems where the agents are people. (12/8)

AI in computer games -- "An increasing number of other games are taking advantage of changes in computer architecture and the growth in processing power to become smarter than ever before. Although most of these games use relatively unsubtle AI techniques, a few pioneers are even showing the academic AI community a trick or two." (IEEE Spectrum) (12/8)

Agents Portal -- Agents Portal is a collection of resources on agents and multiagent systems hosted at the Laval University. Agents Portal news are available for syndication in RSS 0.91 format. (12/8)

TAP semantic web building framework -- TAP's goals are to enable the Semantic Web by providing some simple tools that make the web a giant distributed Database. TAP is open source development effort by R.V. Guha (IBM), Rob McCool (Stanford) and others which provides a set of protocols and conventions that create a coherent whole of independently produced bits of information, and a simple API to navigate the graph. (12/2)

Water web services programming language -- Water is a new Web services and general-purpose object-oriented programming language using an XML-based syntax. Water is flexible and advocates a "Learn Once, Use Everywhere" philosophy where data, logic, and presentation have a uniform representation. (12/1)

Python for Lisp Programmers -- Peter Norvig has written a brief introduction to Python for Lisp programmers. "Basically, Python can be seen as a dialect of Lisp with "traditional" syntax". (12/1)

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