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Latest News Items

Making Intelligence a Bit Less Artificial -- This NYT article discusses attempts to make better recommendation engines for ecommerce, including augmenting machine with human intelligence. (5/4)

CMU establishes robot hall of fame -- Carnegie Mellon University has established "The Robot Hall of Fame" to honor noteworthy robots, both real and fictional, along with their creators. (5/2)

Rats control robots at Georgia Tech -- The Hybrot, a small robot that moves about using the brain signals of a rat, is the first robotic device whose movements are controlled by a network of cultured neuron cells. (4/29)

Latest Directory Additions

Big book of concepts -- The Big Book of Concepts, Gregory L. Murphy, MIT Press, August, 2002, ISBN: 0262134098. Concepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world, so this book will be of interest to serious ontologists. It reviews and evaluates research on diverse topics such as category learning, word meaning, conceptual development in infants and children, and the basic level of categorization. (5/4)

Designing Sociable Robots -- Cynthia L. Breazeal, Designing Sociable Robots, MIT Press, May 2002, ISBN: 0262025108. Sociable robots are synthetic creatures desgined to understand us, to communicate and interact with us, to learn from us and grow with us. The study of sociable robots provides a new way to explore human social intelligence and even what it means to be human. (5/4)

Reputations Research Network -- This site is for researchers who are studying how reputation systems should work in theory, how they actually work in practice, and how they could work better. You can find out about people, papers, and practical systems. And you can contribute pointers to useful information. (5/2)

John Bateman's ontology portal -- This page is "a collection of starting points for information on ontologies" with a focus on ontologies for linguistics. (5/1)

DARPA's Strategic Plan 2003 -- The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which funds a significant portion of technology research in the US, has published a new strategic plan. (5/1)

Semantic Web Services Initiative -- SWSI is a consortium of researchers funded by DARPA and the EU with the goal of developing languages and architectures for semantic web services. (4/29)

Blogging meets the semantic web -- HP Labs in Bristol is experimenting with the use of semantic web markup (RDFS) in a blog. (4/29)

Practical RDF -- Shelley Powers, Practical RDF, O'Reilly, July 2003. Covers RDF, RDFS and OWL. (4/28)

Sync: Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order -- Steven Strogatz, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, Hyperion, March 2003. Strogatz is a Cornell mathematician and pioneer of the science of synchrony, which brings mathematics, physics and biology to bear on the mystery of how spontaneous order occurs at every level of the cosmos, from the nucleus on up. (4/28)

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