We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. --Marshall McLuhan

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Telephone bots given life stories -- The automated telephone `personas' that listen and respond to callers have detailed life stories. Nuance Communications used them to prepare voice actors that record speech components. (5/11)

Virtual Life-Forms Mutate, Shedding Light on Evolution -- A story on the use of genetic algorithms to study evolution in biological systems. (5/9)

Man or Machine? : Human or Robot? -- Part one of a three part story on artificial intelligence at health site drkoop.com. (5/8)

Integrate Web services and Semantic Web -- Tim Berners-Lee described how the semantic web ideas would enhance web services at the Gartner Web Services and Application Integration conference in Los Angeles. (5/8)

Telcom Italia and Motorola partner on agents -- Telcom Italia and Motorola labs have announced a partnership promote the evolution and the adoption of JADE, the (5/8)

DAML-S/OWL-S 0.9 Release -- A new version DAML-S, an ontology for describing services using the semantic web language DAML+OIL has been released. There is also a translation into OWL. (5/8)

Google does ontologies -- Google has acquired Applied Semantics, a company developing ontology (5/8)

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DARPA LifeLog program -- DARPA is starting a new program to develop an ontology-based (sub)system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person’s experience in and interactions with the world in order to support a broad spectrum of associates/assistants and other system capabilities. The objective of this "LifeLog" concept is to be able to trace the "threads" of an individual's life in terms of events, states, and relationships. (5/11)

Journal of Machine Learning Gossip -- The mission of the Journal of Machine Learning Gossip (JMLG) is to provide an archival source of important information that is very often discussed informally at conferences but is rarely, if ever, written down. (5/9)

Semantic web overview presentations -- Some good HTML presentations on the semantic web are available from the recent DARPA sponsored Semantic Web for Military Users workshop held in May 2003. (5/9)

Caltech's Digital Life Lab -- Chris Adami's Digital Life Laboratory at Caltech focuses on the dynamics of simple living systems, in particular their evolution. (5/9)

Avida auto-adaptive genetic system -- Avida is an auto-adaptive genetic system designed as a platform in Digital or Artificial Life research. It allows one to study questions and perform experiments in evolutionary dynamics and theoretical biology that are intractable in real biological system. (5/9)

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