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• The semantic web - A touch of intelligence for the internet? 6/22/03 908 - AN article from the Guarian on the semantic web by Ben Williamson and Libby Miller.

• McCarthy wins Benjamin Franklin Meda 6/22/03 757 - John McCarthy, professor emeritus of computer

• Phone butler organises your life 6/22/03 793 - BBC story on a Southhampton agent project.

• Bend it like Robo-Beckham 6/22/03 712 - Roboticists want to field a team of automatons in the 2050 World Cup that can win it all. Are they nuts? Or is this how progress is made?

• ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show 6/6/03 614 - ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show is an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robot to be held at the EYEBEAM Gallery in New York City on July 12-13, 2003.

• Are You Ready for Social Software? 6/4/03 688 - It's the opposite of project-oriented collaboration tools that places people

• Imagine Machines That Can See 6/4/03 663 - Robotics experts are turning to nature for guidance in making machines that see, hear, smell and

• swarming sensing robots for public safety 6/4/03 687 - University

• Designing Robots That can Reason and React 5/28/03 679 - Space Daily has an article about how Georgia Tech researchers are designing behavior-based robots that can reason and react.

• Bayesian filtering for spam (BBC) 5/27/03 585 - A BBC article on the use of Bayesian filtering for spam.

• Computers That Speak Your Language 5/26/03 627 - "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)

• Self-Repairing Computers 5/26/03 657 - This Scientific American article (June 2003) discusses attempts to make computer systems more robust.

• HP Labs Creates ‘Virtual You’ Robot 5/26/03 626 - Why travel to far flung meetings when you can send your robot stand in. Plus, you can keep it's frequent flyer miles.

• AI Founder Blasts Modern Research 5/13/03 672 - "AI has been brain-dead since the 1970s," said AI guru Marvin Minsky in a recent speech at Boston

• automated telephone personas have detailed life stories 5/11/03 669 - 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.

• Virtual Life-Forms Mutate, Shedding Light on Evolution 5/9/03 604 - A story on the use of genetic algoithms to study evolution in biological systems.

• Man or Machine? : Human or Robot? 5/8/03 569 - Part one of a three part story on artificial intelligence at health site drkoop.com.

• Integrate Web services and Semantic Web 5/8/03 564 - Tim Berners-Lee described how the semantic web ideas would enhanse web services at the Gartner Web Services and Application Integration conference in Los Angeles .

• Telcom Italia and Motorola partner on agents 5/8/03 86 - Telcom Italia and Motorola labs have announced a partnership promote the evolution and the adoption of JADE, the

• DAML-S/OWL-S 0.9 Release 5/8/03 79 - A new version DAML-S, an ontology for describing services using the semantic web langaue DAML+OIL has been released. There is also a translation into OWL.

• Google does ontologies 5/8/03 83 - Google has acquired Applied Semantics, a company developing ontology

• Making Intelligence a Bit Less Artificial 5/4/03 40 - This NYT article discusses attempts to make better recommendation

• CMU establishes robot hall of fame 5/2/03 41 - Carnegie Mellon University has established "The Robot Hall of Fame" to honor noteworthy robots, both real and fictional, along with their creators.

• Rats control robots at Georgia Tech 4/29/03 82 - 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.

• Military robots to get swarm intelligence 4/28/03 54 - A battalion of 120 military robots is to be fitted with swarm

• Opentable.com models users for restaurants 4/24/03 0 - OpenTable.com, an online restaurant

• Wakamaru Bot at Your Service 4/24/03 84 - Wakamaru, a robot that is intelligent enough to assist patients at home, is designed to provide assistance to Japan's growing population of seniors. Elisa Batista reports from the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco.

• W3C Work On Semantic Web Draws Criticism 4/17/03 83 - The World Wide Web Consortium's recent release of working

• W3C advances Semantic Web drafts 4/17/03 40 - Aiming to rehabilitate both the technology and the image of its Semantic Web initiative, the Web's leading standards group has issued a number of updates and promised a spring and summer education campaign.

• OWL Web Ontology Language "last call" working drafts 4/4/03 34 - The W3C Web Ontology Working Group

• 2003 Loebner Prize Contest 4/4/03 36 - The Loebner Prize is an annual Turing Test, wherein contestants

• Toshiba to market new personal robot 3/26/03 39 - Toshiba will introduce their Personal Robot Prototype ApriAlpha at

• On the Backs of Ants 3/26/03 47 - Drawing heavily on the chemistry of biology, researchers from Humboldt University in Germany have devised a way for electronic agents to efficiently assemble a network without relying on a central plan.

• Real World Robots 3/17/03 82 - Newsweek: "They’re finally among us. They may not look like the Jetsons’ Rosie, but they are actually doing real jobs alongside humans—in homes, hospitals and on the battlefield"

• Promise of intelligent networks 3/1/03 42 - US researchers are working on ways to make wireless computer networks organise themselves and manage data traffic levels without any human intervention.

• New robot face smiles and sneers 3/1/03 48 - UTDallas's K-bot has a feminine face and is capable of 28 facial movements, including smiling, sneering, furrowing her brow and arching her eyebrows. She also has cameras in her eyes to recognise and respond to humans.

• P and G's agent-enabled supply chain network 3/1/03 43 - Procter and Gamble's use of agent-based modeling helped it transform its supply chain system so fundamentally that the company no longer even calls it a supply chain.

• Robotics club wrestles with miniaturization 3/1/03 43 - A story on the Vancouver Robotics Club where amateur

• Bee-like robot swarm wins MIT prize 3/1/03 40 - Swarming robots that can act in concert and mimic the behavior of bees have

• Falling prey to machines 3/1/03 75 - "Computer sentience is possible," said John Holland, professor of electrical engineering and computer science

• Artificial worlds used to unlock secrets of real human interaction 3/1/03 41 - Michael Macy, a sociologist at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., is using this powerful new tool to

• The Lord Of the Webs 2/1/03 82 - If the semantic web is to the web as elvish is to LOTR, then that makes TBL...

• Robots That Suck 1/20/03 51 - Have they finally come out with a robot for the rest of us?

• Games of infinite possibilities 1/20/03 77 - 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 movielike stories. With such technology a game could adjust to a player's actions and provide a different experience every time it is played.

• IBM aims to get smart about AI 1/20/03 48 - 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.

• Electrolux Trilobite vacuum robot 1/14/03 40 - Electrolux will being marketing it's Trilobite robotic vacuum cleaner.

• Robot performs in opera 1/1/03 95 - Kismet, the MIT robot, is featured in "Three Tales.", a new opera by Steve Reich. "Right at the end, there is a chilling little duet for humanity and technology, as Cynthia Breazeal, of M.I.T., converses with a sweet-faced, dulcet-voiced robot named Kismet. "Maybe you'll play with your yellow toy?" she coos, as if talking to a toddler. Kismet shoots her a cool, withering look. Curtain."

• Vanderbilt robot reads human emotions via wearable sensors 1/1/03 95 - A team at Vanderbilt University is turning this notion on its head by developing a robotic assistant whose goal is not to

• Hans Moravec's 3D robotic vision system 12/31/02 39 - CMU's Hans Moravec has completed work on a three-dimensional robotic vision system he says will allow machines to make their way through offices and homes. The technology is "more than good enough to reliably navigate robots through a general environment," he said.

• Humanoid robots: companions or toys? 12/31/02 47 - Sony Corp., creator of the popular AIBO

• Composer harnesses AI to create music 12/31/02 87 - Sony researcher Eduardo Reck Miranda is developing "evolutionary musicology" systems to compose original music, drawing on concepts

• Journal of game development 12/28/02 41 - JOGD will cover all aspects of game development, including artificial intelligence, mathematics, physics, networking, programming, graphics, audio and simulation.

• Making Robots, With Dreams of Henry Ford 12/27/02 41 - "...IRobot is perhaps the only company in the world that develops and sells robots to the military, researchers, large corporations, and consumers. Most robotics makers focus on just one segment, and 2002 has been a busy year for the company. ..." (NYT)

• AI pioneer Saul Amarel of Rutgers dies at 74 12/20/02 83 - Saul Amarel, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and founder of the computer science department at Rutgers University, has died at the age of 74.

• When the web starts thinking for itself 12/20/02 85 - "This symbiotic intelligence of people plus computers plus

• Darpa kick starts wearable computer initiative 11/13/01 61 - A growing group of researchers is coalescing around the idea that the future of mobile computing may have less to do with small PCs and more to do with something they call smart yarn.