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Designing Robots That can Reason and React -- Space Daily has an article about how Georgia Tech researchers are designing behavior-based robots that can reason and react. (5/28)

Bayesian filtering for spam (BBC) -- A BBC article on the use of Bayesian filtering for spam. (5/27)

Computers That Speak Your Language -- "Voice recognition that finally holds up its end of a conversation is revolutionizing customer service. Now the goal is to make natural language the way to find any type of information, anywhere." (Technology Review, June 2003) (5/26)

Self-Repairing Computers -- This Scientific American article (June 2003) discusses attempts to make computer systems more robust. (5/26)

HP Labs Creates ‘Virtual You’ Robot -- Why travel to far flung meetings when you can send your robot stand in. Plus, you can keep it's frequent flyer miles. (5/26)

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Natural Born Cyborgs -- An interview with philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark reckons all of us are already Natural Born Cyborgs, with minds made to merge with the material world - your watch, paper, computer. (6/1)

Description Logic Handbook -- The Description Logic Handbook: Theory, Implementation and Applications Franz Baader et al (Ed), Cambridge University Press, March 2003, ISBN: 0521781760. This book covers the theory, implementations, and applications of description logic in sixteen chapters and nearly 600 pages. Description logic is the basis for the semantic web languages DAML+OIL and OWL. (5/30)

History of RDF -- Tim Bray describes the history of RDF and offers a challenge. (5/29)

E.O. Wilson on constructing a superorganism -- Streaming video of a talk by famed biologist E. O. Wilson on the Edge. "We're beginning to get some revolutionary new ideas about how social behavior originated, and also how to construct a superorganism. If we can define a set of assembly rules for superorganisms then we have a model system for how to construct an organism." (5/28)

WEB information retrieval and information extraction -- WEBIR.ORG is a collection of online resources for research in the field of information retrieval and information extraction from the Web. (5/27)

nBot, a two wheel balancing robot -- David P. Anderson of SMU has built a two wheeled balancing robot called nBot. (5/26)

OpenMind Learner -- LEARNER allows ordinary Web users ("teachers") to teach a computer things they know and allows anyone to ask it questions about what others have taught it. (5/26)

Evolution of Reason -- William S. Cooper, The Evolution of Reason: Logic as a Branch of Biology, Cambridge University Press, 2001. Cooper outlines a theory of rationality in which logical law emerges as an intrinsic aspect of evolutionary biology. He examines the connections between logic and evolutionary biology and illustrates how logical rules are derived directly from evolutionary principles, and therefore, have no independent status of their own. (5/26)

eulerSharp -- EulerSharp is an inference engine written in CSharp to support logic based proofs. It is a backward-chaining reasoner that will tell you whether a given set of facts and rules supports a given conclusion. (5/16)

Algernon In Java -- The Algernon rule-based inference system has been reimplemented in Java and interfaced with Protege. Algernon performs forward and backward rule-based processing of frame-based knowledge bases, and efficiently stores and retrieves information in ontologies and knowledge bases. (5/16)

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