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Robots That Suck -- Have they finally come out with a robot for the rest of us? (1/20)

Games of infinite possibilities -- R. Michael Young, an assistant professor of computer science at N.C. State University, is studying ways to build artificial intelligence -- the ability of computers to act like humans -- into games so that users get movie-like stories. With such technology a game could adjust to a player's actions and provide a different experience every time it is played. (1/20)

IBM aims to get smart about AI -- In the coming months, IBM will unveil technology that it believes will vastly improve the way computers access and use data by unifying the different schools of thought surrounding artificial intelligence. The Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) is an XML-based data retrieval architecture under development at IBM. (1/20)

Electrolux Trilobite vacuum robot -- Electrolux will being marketing it's Trilobite robotic vacuum cleaner. (1/14)

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Cara customer service agent -- UK telephone and Internet bank, First Direct, launched an "interactive on-line help agent" on its web site described as "a 3D interactive animation which moves, talks and gestures as she responds to users, answering any questions that they may have". (El.pub) (1/17)

Semantic Web markup uses and abuses -- The XML.COM article "Creative Comments: On the Uses and Abuses of Markup" discusses how to mix human and machine understandable content on the web. (1/17)

W3C Web Services Choreography WG -- The W3C has established a Web Services Choreography Working Group that is focused on developing languages and standards to describe the composition and coordination of web services. (1/16)

Web Semantics journal -- "Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web" an interdisciplinary journal published by Elsevier based on research and applications of various subject areas that contribute to the development of a knowledge-intensive and intelligent service Web. (1/16)

Web services interoperability organization -- WS-I is an open, industry organization chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages. Specifically WS-I addresses the creation, promotion, and support of Generic Protocols for Interoperable exchange of messages between services. (1/16)

28th FIPA meeting 10-12 Feb -- The 28th meeting of the FIPA standards group will be held in Palermo, Italy from February 10-12, 2003, at the kind invitation of Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA. 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/. (1/15)

BlueJADE J2EE MAS environment -- BlueJADE is a service for managing software agents originally developed at HP Labs. (1/15)

J2EE multiagent systems mailing list -- Weta-j2eeAgents is a mailing list for discussion of J2EE based agent software. (1/15)

DARPA offers US$1M prize for robot race -- DARPA intends to conduct a race of autonomous ground vehicles from the vicinity of Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 2004 with a $1M prize for the winner. (1/14)

Martin Griss, UC Santa Cruz -- Martin Griss, adjunct professor, UC Santa Cruz, recently moved from HP Laboratories. Continues work on CoolAgent, AOSE, UML-based behavior generators, starting new group, SCATE: Santa Cruz Agent Technology and Environments. (1/14)

Santa Cruz Agent Technology and Environments -- Describes the startup of SCATE, the Santa Cruz Agent Technology and Environments research group at CS Dept, University of California, Santa Cruz. This group, under direction of Martin Griss, continues the CoolAgent/JADE/BlueJADE technology and applications research previously performed at Hp Laboratories. (1/14)

Proc. Ontologies in Agent Systems 2002 -- The proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Bologna, Italy, 16 July 2002, are available online. (1/14)

There.com online metaverse is here -- THERE.COM, a "next-generation metaverse" created by by game developer Will Harvey and Jeffrey Ventrella, a Media Lab alife expert, is open for beta testing. (1/8)

Fuzzy Multi-Agent Negotiations -- FuzzyMAN is a research market framework developed at the European University Viadrina in which agents carry out bilateral or multilateral negotiations using fuzzy logic. (1/6)

ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management -- The 12th ACM ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management will be held 2-8 November in New Orleans (USA) -- submit papers by 20 May 2003. (1/6)

CEEMAS 2003 -- The 3rd International/Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems will be held in Prague on 16-18 June 2003. (1/3)

MAS software engineering survey -- The University of Sydney invites people to participate in a survey on the generic features, process steps and models should be part of a methodology for developing Multi-Agent Systems (use the password MAS). (1/3)

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