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  • 28th FIPA meeting 10-12 Feb 1/15/03 Who points to it? 44 - The 24th FIPA meeting will be held in Lausanne Switzerland area during 11-15 February, 2002. The quarterly 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/.

  • Search method melds results TRN 010902 1/21/02 Who points to it? 18 - "Researchers at Columbia University have come upwith an automated engine that promises to take the search a step further bycomparing the returns.The engine finds a set of documents, defines the query term in naturalsentences using text pulled from those documents, and summarizes theirhyperlinks, allowing the user to see both the information present in a set ofdocuments and what is unique to each hit, according Min-Yen Kan, acomputer science researcher at Columbia."

  • 400 naked Furbys: All staring at you 1/21/02 Who points to it? 19 - "When you walk in front of Kelly Heaton's sculpture, dozens of eyes snapopen, beaks whir and click, and voices chirp in mechanical chatter. Thesculpture is, in a sense, alive — if you consider Furbys to be a life-form.Heaton, 29, who conceived the project while she was a student at MIT'sMedia Laboratory, sees them that way."

  • Cyber Emissaries To Serve Online 1/21/02 Who points to it? 17 - "Computer scientists and tech professionals are preparing a brave newworld of software-based, intelligent agents that will act as virtual support staffs forany human being willing to trust them. The main difference: They'll work 24/7,won't take a lunch break and never utter a gripe."

  • Virtual lies face foolproof software 1/21/02 Who points to it? 0 - The SAS Institute has developed software that it says can sift throughe-mails and other electronic text to discern falsehoods. "The patternsin people's language change when they are uncertain or lying," saysPeter Dorrington, business solutions manager at SAS. "We can comparebasic patterns in words and grammatical structures versus benchmarksto detect likely lies." For instance, over-use of the word "or" andtoo many adjectives can be giveaways, according to Aldert Vrij's book,"Detecting Lies and Deceit."

  • The emotional machine 1/6/02 Who points to it? 21 - AN interview on Salon.com with Steve Geand: "Steve Grand, designer of the artificial life program Creatures, talks about the stupidity of computers, the role of desire in intelligence and the coming revolution in what it means to be "alive"."

  • Los Alamos Lab scientists creates brainy bug toys 12/23/01 Who points to it? 17 - Don't tell Los Alamos National Laboratoryscientist Mark Tilden that robots needcomputer brains. His robots don't use them.Tilden has created an army of lifelike roboticbugs that use transistors, rather thancomputers, to control their actions. The resultof his work is a hot new toy line fromHasbro's WowWee Toys called B.I.O.-Bugs.

  • Computer beats humans at guessing sex from face/voice info 12/15/01 Who points to it? 18 - A new computer classification system developed at Penn State uses SVMsto correctly identify a person's sex– based only on eyes, nose, mouth and voice cues – better than human beings can. Prof. Rajeev Sharma says the new system is right nearly 100 percent of the time. Human beings consistently score in the low 90 percents.

  • Have Your Agent Call My Agent 12/13/01 Who points to it? 20 - AN InformationWeek.com article on agents..."Exciting new research in autonomous software agentscould lead to new software entities that are activeplayers in the economy, explains Karyl Scott."

  • Our Impulse to Connect the Dots Is Pre-Wired 12/11/01 Who points to it? 17 - The humanbrain is a master of theconnect-the-dots game, drawingheavily on its ability to remember thepast, make associations in the presentand come to conclusions about thefuture. Indeed, our brains are suchtalented and overzealous extrapolatorsthat we regularly see patterns wherenone exist.

  • Boneless, brainy, and ancient 12/11/01 Who points to it? 20 - How to make a robotic arm that is able to flex in an infinite number of ways and order it to do so without disorder andconfusion? Get yourself an octopus and study it. That is exactly what researchers funded by the Office of NavalResearch are doing.

  • Cyc-ed Up for Open Source 12/9/01 Who points to it? 18 - A story on cyc's (still) planned release of an open source version of it's knowledge base.

  • Robot bugs to invade Mars 12/4/01 Who points to it? 18 - Scientists are looking to insects in developing a flying robot that could greatly enhance any exploratory missions on Mars. With support from NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts, a team ofresearchers that includes Georgia Institute of Technology engineers isconducting a comprehensive feasibility study designed to show whether a fleet of scaled-up Entomopters could one day help explore the Red Planet.

  • Agentcities European Projects meeting, Lausanne, Feb 2002 12/4/01 Who points to it? 31 - An Agentcities information day will be held in Lausanne, Switzerlandon the 7th and 8th of February 2002 just before the 24th FIPAmeeting. The meeting will provide and introduction to the Agentcitiesinitiative, providing: (1) an overview of Agentcities activitiesworldwide; (2) details of the support available in Europe throughAgentcities.NET (IST2000-28384); (3) tutorials and support for gettingstarted in the network; and (4) opportunities to meet, share interestsand establish collaborative work plans. Participation is free andopen to anybody interested in participating in the project. A limitednumber of travel support grants are available for Agentcities.NETproject members.

  • Berkely's bionic bug 12/1/01 Who points to it? 19 - For three and a half years, Ron Fearing has been working in his lab atthe University of California at Berkeley, trying to create something that mostpeople consider a nuisance. "What we're trying to do here is build a small roboticfly," says Fearing. "This will be a fly with a wingspan ofabout 25 millimeters, just one inch. And our long-term goal is that this fly will be as capable as a housefly in buzzing around and maneuvering."

  • Verbmobile wins German Future Prize 12/1/01 Who points to it? 19 - This year's prestigious German Future Prize has been awarded to Wolfgang Wahlster et. al. from DFKI for the VerbMobile electronic translating device.

  • Robots Learn Soccer (and the Game of Life) 11/27/01 Who points to it? 18 - "...On the computer, the robots learn to play soccer by executing a random sequence of basic moves — runningtoward the ball, kicking it, moving behind the ball, blocking it. For every sequence, a computer program eitherrewards or punishes the robot with a digital signal telling it whether the sequence made sense and whether itshould be repeated. ..."

  • Rover's Just a Robot, but a Great Pal for All That 11/23/01 Who points to it? 18 - A NYT story on how Aibo's are gaining acceptance in Japan.

  • The Web's Next Incarnation: Intelligent Talk 11/14/01 Who points to it? 23 - The latest effort to organize the Web's vast store of information is called the "Semantic Web," and while it remains to be seen whether itcan live up to its billing, it is promising enough to have attracted scientists from a variety of disciplines, including Tim Berners-Lee,director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • How good are online auctions as pricing mechanisms? 11/10/01 Who points to it? 19 - Chuck Wood (Notre Dame) and Robert Kauffman ( Minnesota) used ar “bot” known as eDrillto gather data on thousands of eBay coin auctions from 1999to 2001. They concluded that the price of a coin sold on eBay depends on factors that have nothing to do with its book value.

  • Sony wonders who let the dogs out 11/1/01 Who points to it? 0 - Sony Corp. is using acontroversial U.S. law aimed atprotecting intellectual property topull the plug on a Web site thathelps owners of Aibo, Sony'spopular and pricey robotic pet,teach their electronic dogs newtricks.

  • Robo-festa: a robot festival in the UK 11/1/01 Who points to it? 20 - Academics and robot experts are lookingto the future at a gathering to discuss thedevelopment of the UK's first robotfestival, Robo-festa-UK, to be held in 2004.

  • NASA Develop Autonomous Bulldozers for Mars 11/1/01 Who points to it? 21 - "A fleet of pint-size bulldozers may one day do the dirty work onMars, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory report.Needless to say, they are a far cry from the Fisher-Price variety.Lightweight, solar-powered and could aid in the search for life on the Red Planet or help support ahuman presence there. "

  • In the Company of Peers, P2P's broader implications 10/27/01 Who points to it? 21 - " ...If there's anything the Internet was made for, it's collaboration and communication acrossdisparate networks. And, in its simplest form, that's what P2P networking is all about.Napster brought the term to our attention, but new P2P applications that eschew a centralserver, such as universal file sharing, distributed computing, collaborative computing, andintelligent agents, have the potential to maximize computer resources and improvecommunications efficiently and affordably. ..."

  • Digital Savants In E-Business 10/27/01 Who points to it? 21 - The era of the travel agent may soon be at an end, replaced withautonomous software agents that can find the lowest airfares, book hotelreservations and find hard-to get theater tickets. Researchers from aroundthe globe participated in the recent Trading Agent Competition, whichsimulates an online auction in which software agents must maximizecustomer satisfaction and minimize cost. The programming joust in Tampa,Fla., coincided with the Association for Computing Machinery Conferenceon Electronic Commerce. Livingagents, a team from Living Systems, aEuropean E-commerce company, took the top spot.

  • Linux-based Humanoid robot 10/25/01 Who points to it? 19 - Japanese scientists are planning to demonstrate a walking, Linux-operated, humanoid robot next month in Europe. The two-legged H7 robot is around 54 inches tall and weighs 121 pounds. It has 36 joints--or "degrees of freedom"--which H7's developers claim means it has full body motion. An onboard computer, built around two 750MHz Pentium III processors, runs the RT-Linux operating system.

  • AIBO barks its way onto television 10/25/01 Who points to it? 22 - Piroppo is a new Japanese animated TV program which features AIBOs.

  • Trading Agents Competition 01 results 10/24/01 Who points to it? 30 - Livingagents, the bot entered by Living-systems AG, has won the second Trading Agent Competition, with ATT finishing second and Cornell third. Other teams in the final eight included Penn State, CMU, Southhampton, Essex and Stanford.

  • A Hello Kitty you can drive 10/24/01 Who points to it? 22 - The future is pregnant with friendly, mood-sensitive cars. Fasten your seat belt, it's going to be a really, really cute ride.

  • Trading agent competition 10/23/01 Who points to it? 21 - A story from the St. Petersburg Times on the second Trading Agent Competition held at the ACM Electronic Commerce Conference.

  • Yahoo's own turing test 10/23/01 Who points to it? 16 - Professor Manuel Blume of CMU has designed a test he calls "Captcha" (Completely Automatic Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) that Yahoo is using to sort out the bots from the humans on its chat rooms.

  • Ad bureau seeks to catalogue web spiders 10/23/01 Who points to it? 19 - ABC Interactive has released a catalogue of known web spiders so that companies can correct audits of web impressions.

  • The Death Knell of Noisy Searches 10/23/01 Who points to it? 21 - This article on http://www.IT-Director.com/ talks about how topic maps will lead to better web searches.

  • Toyota, Sony Develop Mood-Sharing Tail-Wagging Car 10/19/01 Who points to it? 19 - A new vehicle developed by Japan's ToyotaMotor Corp and electronics giant Sony Corp will smile, frown and cry,not to mention take your pulse and measureyour sweat.Called the ``pod,'' the car, which has beendesigned to show emotion and learn fromdriver experience, will be on display for thefirst time at the Tokyo Motor Show thatbegins next week.

  • Web Services: High Stakes Amid The Hype 10/18/01 Who points to it? 20 - An article in the Post by Leslie Walker,, "... Web services, you see, are the hoped-for byproduct of a new set of standards being developed for Internet software. These emerging software standards, with an alphabet soup of names (SOAP, UDDI and WDSL), supposedlywill help programmers create smarter services online, in part byspawning software "agents" that will do work ..."

  • Metal muscle 10/18/01 Who points to it? 19 - A red Herring article on new kinds of silent, linear motion actuators being developed by Nanomuscle (http://www.nanomuscle.com/)

  • ALICE victorious in AI challenge 10/18/01 Who points to it? 17 - LICE victorious in AI challengeBy Rupert GoodwinsZDNet (UK)October 16, 2001 1:09 PM PTFor the second year running, ALICE -- Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity -- has won thebronze medal and $2,000 at the annual Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence.

  • Robots to replace middle managers by 2051 10/17/01 Who points to it? 27 - This prediction comes from the winning entry in the "50 years of business computing" run by the UK National Computing Centre.

  • Technology Review - A Smarter Web 10/17/01 Who points to it? 35 - A Smarter Web, Mark Frauenfelder, Technology Review, November 2001"The Web is huge but not very smart. Computer scientists arebeginning to build a "Semantic Web" that understands themeanings that underlie the tangle of information. ..."

  • Japanese Firm Lets Robot Cat Out of the Bag 10/16/01 Who points to it? 29 - Japan's biJapan's biggest toymaker pioneered the world's first virtual pet, theTamagotchi, and the nation's most famous electronics maker rolled outthe No. 1 robot dog, Aibo. Now one of its biggest makers of automatedfactory systems, Omron Corp., has weighed in with a robot cat: NeCoRo.Now one of its biggest makers of automatedfactory systems, Omron Corp., has weighed inwith a robot cat: NeCoRo.

  • Using Humans as a Computer Model 10/16/01 Who points to it? 22 - A NYT article on IBM's vision for Autonomic Computing , building "computer systems thatregulate themselves much in the same way our autonomic nervous system regulates and protects our bodies. "

  • PCs talk personal 10/13/01 Who points to it? 30 - An article from Nature on the qualities of synthesized voices that people prefer.

  • Think Fast, Clever Robot 10/13/01 Who points to it? 29 - The 2001 Loeberner contest, a scaled down version of the Turing test, will be held Saturday, 13October 2001, at the London Science Museum and will include entries from seven finalists.

  • neuromorphic engineering for smaller, smarter robots 10/8/01 Who points to it? 18 - Instead of using the ones and zeros ofdigital electronics to simulate the way thebrain functions, “neuromorphic”engineering relies on nature's biologicalshort-cuts to make robots that are smaller,smarter and vastly more energy-efficient

  • Slug eating robot! 10/8/01 Who points to it? 20 - The world's first fully autonomous robot is being developed bya team of British scientists. The SlugBot eats slugs and usestheir decomposing bodies to generate electricity. By LouiseKnapp.

  • Acceptable face of robotics 10/5/01 Who points to it? 19 - The days of having a robot greet you with afriendly smile and interact with you in a naturalway may not be far off.Researchers at the Robotics Institute atCarnegie Mellon University, US, are working todevelop a robot with a personality and whichcan behave according to social conventions. They see this as the next step in the evolutionof robotics. ...

  • Brainhat handles language, naturally 10/5/01 Who points to it? 19 - Brainhat Corp., a Connecticut-based company, has developed anatural language processing “executive” that can dispatch tasks,ask and answer questions and handle other events.The East Hartford company recently announced a natural languageoperating system that can be programmed in English and canintelligently interact with users in automated question-and-answerenvironments.

  • AI seen as security boon 10/5/01 Who points to it? 19 - Ottawa-based Precarn Inc. is asking Canadian researchers to come up withartificial intelligence systems for transportation safety and security followingthe Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.Precarn, a consortium that funds research and development of intelligentsystems technologies, says now is the time for projects that use artificialintelligence technology to improve Canada's transportation systems.

  • Software robots may 'see' threats sooner 10/5/01 Who points to it? 17 - "the military is testing software robots that can identify targets and presentthem to commanders much more quickly than a human could. "

  • Going once, going twice 10/5/01 Who points to it? 16 - A CNN article: "In the beginning it sounded like science fiction: intelligentagents crawling the Web and using sophisticated analytics to get the bestpossible deal for buyers and sellers.But this vision of hypercapitalism in cyberspace never quite got off the ground.Pierre Mitchell, an analyst at AMR Research in Boston, says that part of thevision survives and thrives in the more mundane process of dynamic pricing:"Corporations are blown away by what they can buy on eBay," Mitchell says"

  • Software 'agents' augment work of real ones 10/5/01 Who points to it? 0 - An AP story, short on details, about how software agents are/could help the military.

  • Agile in a Crisis, Robots Show Their Mettle 9/27/01 Who points to it? 18 - In one of the first uses of robots in an urban search and rescue operation, about a dozen remote-controlled machines have been employed at the WTC disaster site. Ranging from the size of a shoe box to that of a medium-size suitcase, they crawl in, under and around the twisted steel and crushed concrete, guided by human operators on the surface. Using lights,video cameras and sensors, they search for victims in places where human rescuers cannot or dare not go.

  • Jini Rio compared to JADE 9/26/01 Who points to it? 23 - Ebiquity.org has a post which compares JADE and LEAP to Jini's Rio.

  • Like human, like machine 9/20/01 Who points to it? 20 - Brian Aldis, who wrote the story "Supertoys last all summer long" onwhich the movie AI was based, reacts to the film and the idea thata human-like consciousness could ever be programmed into a machine

  • Robots Scour WTC Wreckage 9/18/01 Who points to it? 18 - Dozens of experimental search-and-rescue robots are scouring the wreckage of the World TradeCenter's collapsed twin towers.At least two separate teams of roboticists are at Ground Zero operating up to two dozen experimentalrobots, which are being used to probe the rubble and locate bodies.This is the first time robots have been used in a search-and-rescue operation.

  • BT ponders bacterial intelligence 9/18/01 Who points to it? 19 - BT researchers are studying bacterial colonies to help develop communication networks that will self-organise and self-configure.They believe that soon many people will be carrying around or using so many small, smartdevices that they will not have thetime to do their own configuration.Self-organising systems will thenbe essential to keep networksrunning.

  • Open Agent Architecture 2.1 released 9/17/01 Who points to it? 43 - An agent platform developed by SRI

  • Search-and-rescue robots tested at WTC 9/17/01 Who points to it? 18 - Three experimental robots, each about the size of a shoebox, are being usedto search for victims in the mountain of rubble that was once the WorldTrade Center in New York City. Researcher Robin Murphy and three of hergraduate students have been clambering over the jagged piles of debris -powdered concrete and twisted steel - with the camera-carrying robots,lowering them into voids that are inaccessible to people, dogs, and othercameras involved in the search for bodies. (National Geographic Today)

  • Hey Asimo, bring me a beer 9/15/01 Who points to it? 22 - This Yahoo Internet Lift article offers g guide to consumer robots, including Asimo, PaPero, DC06, Mindstorms, and Aibo.

  • Soul in the machine 9/15/01 Who points to it? 20 - An article from Yahoo Internet Life from August 2001 by Charles Platt -- "As the Net takes baby steps toward artifical intelligence, Websurfing may take on a life of its own".

  • Artificial ants solve network problems 9/13/01 Who points to it? 23 - Ants might be able to run telecommunicationnetworks better than humans."Researchers have found that control programs based on the foraging behaviour of ants can keep data networks running more efficiently and cope with congestion better than many human alternatives. ..." (BBC online)

  • Sony Sees a Robot Family in Every Home 9/10/01 Who points to it? 17 - Instead of a chicken in every pot, Japan's electronics giant Sony Corpsees a robot family in every household. Ever since Sony's originalAIBO robotic dog made headlines in 1999 by selling out in a flash inTokyo and on the Internet at $2,500 a pop, some of the world's biggesttoymakers jumped on the robotic pet bandwagon -- and the robots justkeep marching off the assembly lines and onto the toy store shelves,competing for space in Santa's sleigh. ... (Reuters)

  • The Know-It-All Machine 8/20/01 Who points to it? 19 - A story from Lingua Franca on Cyc.

  • Like a child, `smart' robot learns gradually 8/20/01 Who points to it? 21 - John Weng, a roboticsexpert at Michigan StateUniversity, is teaching a robot tolearn like a child -- to obey spokencommands, trundle down a hall,find and pick up toys with itsmechanical hand.

  • AI Returns--For Now 8/11/01 Who points to it? 19 - Analyst John Dvorak says that AI comes back into fashionevery 20 years, and that time is now. If we're not readyfor commercial applications yet, perhaps we will succeed in 2020.

  • Agents beat human commodity traders 8/11/01 Who points to it? 24 - "We see robots working in the frenzy of the trading pit while humansare elevated to a managerial role." So said IBM's Jeffrey Kephartafter the company's software-based robotic trading agents wiped thefloor with six commodities traders during a tradingsimulation. Operating through an unbiased software-based auctioneer,IBM's robotic trading agents made seven percent more profits thantheir human competitors.

  • A catch for the thinking computer 8/11/01 Who points to it? 17 - Machines are becoming more intelligent, but there is a reason why they will never think, says Susan Greenfield in this article in the Sunday Times.

  • Computers Learn to Play By Rules 8/10/01 Who points to it? 21 - ANother Wired article with news from IJCAI-2001.

  • RoboCup: Where Bots Kick Butt 8/8/01 Who points to it? 19 - A wired news article on the 2001 Robocup competition being held at IJCAI. "This isn't just about soccer",said RoboCup's Japanese founder and president,Hiroaki Kitano. "The greater goal is to: "apply technologiescreated by the project for significant social and industrialissues".

  • Fish invade internet 8/3/01 Who points to it? 19 - DALiWorld, a new peer-to-peer software program that debuted this week, isone of the first examples of how file-sharing technology is emerging as afoundation for a new generation of online games. "Traditional peer-to-peersoftware like Napster or Gnutella is just about moving files," says DALiCEOTodd Pappainoannou. "What we're talking about is shared, networkedentertainment -- people interacting in the same virtual world from whereverthey are."

  • Ants make up collective minds on house moves 7/23/01 Who points to it? 51 - Ants have been found to make up their minds collectively when it comes to moving to a new home.

  • AAMAS 2003 location proposals sought 7/15/01 Who points to it? 20 - Bids are solicited to host the Second International Joint Conferenceon Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) in 2003. AAMAS isa joint event comprising the 7th International Conference onAutonomous Agents (AA), The 6th International Conference on MultiagentSystems (ICMAS), and the 10th International Workshop on AgentTheories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),

  • IBM releases AI software for help desks 7/13/01 Who points to it? 20 - IBM has developed a "Virtual Help Desk" that uses AI techniques tofix routine computer problems "autonomically." The software "sits and runs in the background an observes anddraws conclusions. If medication doesn't work, it routes work around theailing mechanism, then literally makes a phone call to the home of anemployee and tell him the problem and the spare parts that are needed."(AP)

  • Voice portals 7/12/01 Who points to it? 18 - A NYT article on voice portals -- information services that youreach by dialing a toll-free number. "At the otherend, a chipper automated voice greets you andoffers you a broad range of free services, which yousummon just by saying their names." "

  • JASSS Volume 4, Issue 3. June 2001 7/8/01 Who points to it? 20 - The third issue of volume 4 of the Journal of Artificial Societiesand Social Simulation (JASSS) is available. This is a special issue on Applied Simulation Analysis .

  • Movie Stars Fear Inroads by Upstart Digital Actors 7/7/01 Who points to it? 18 - "...with movies like "Final Fantasy," filmmakers are beginning to createphoto-realistic computer characters that, at least in fleeting moments, will try toconvince the audience that actual humans are on the screen."

  • John McCarthy on AI (the movie)) 7/2/01 Who points to it? 21 - SJ Mercury News gets John McCarthy's reactions to the movie AI.

  • The Truth Behind A.I. 7/2/01 Who points to it? 19 - Wired gets the reaction of Philip Klahr to the movie AI.

  • A.I.: From the Big Screen to the Real World 7/2/01 Who points to it? 18 - An article in Scientific American (July 2, 2001) asks (and answers) about the movie AI "If we had to remake the movie today using contemporary scientistsand their creations, who would be cast?".

  • Kiss me, you human 6/30/01 Who points to it? 20 - A Cristian Science Monitor article..."It's the astonishing growth in real-world artificial-intelligence technology that isforcing thinkers, theologians, philosophers, and the public to reexamine someage-old fundamental philosophical questions with a new vigor and urgency. Is itpossible to replicate human consciousness in machines? If so, then what doesthat tell us about consciousness? What does it mean to be human?"

  • 2002 Sigart Autonomous Agents Award 6/30/01 Who points to it? 20 - ACM SIGART, in collaboration with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, hasinstituted an annual award for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. The award isintended to recognize researchers whose current work is an important influence on the field. Theaward is an official ACM award, funded by an endowment created by ACM SIGART from theproceeds of previous Autonomous Agents conferences. The award committee is now seeking nominations for next year's award. If you wish to place anomination, complete the form below and send it to Lewis Johnson (johnson@isi.edu). Nominationsare requested no later than July 6, 2001.

  • AI for the New Millennium 6/30/01 Who points to it? 19 - A NYT article on the state of AI: "...Artificial intelligence is now a regularacademic discipline. It is already embedded inmany everyday products. And it helpsbusinesses sort through and make sense ofhuge databases...."

  • Multimedia Bed 6/24/01 Who points to it? 17 - Imagine a bed that gently wakes you up atthe crack of dawn and reminds you of yourupcoming appointments.

  • The power of every agent 6/24/01 Who points to it? 21 - Dan GIlmore's colum "Big business, big government face `the power of everyone" could also apply to the power of every agent. Together, we know it all.

  • Those magnificent genes 6/23/01 Who points to it? 20 - From The Guardian : - Our everyday lives could be controlled and coordinated, not just by raw data, but by computers that evolve like living entities.

  • Go to the ant...consider her ways and be wise 6/23/01 Who points to it? 19 - A computerworld story on swarm based agent systems. "Rather than relyingon complex,centralized logic, systems that mimic antbehavior use many small, autonomoussoftware agents. Each acting on thesimplest of rules, these agents together cansolve problems that are enormously complexwhen viewed as a whole. Higher-level, or"swarm," intelligence emerges from thoserudimentary rules in ways that would bedifficult to program into conventionalsoftware. "

  • Military Game Simulations Make an Ally of Emotion 6/21/01 Who points to it? 20 - A NYT story about the agent-based military simulations that USC's Institute for Creative Technologies is building.

  • Birth of a Thinking Machine 6/21/01 Who points to it? 18 - An LA Times article on Cyc.

  • Agents on the (power) grid 6/16/01 Who points to it? 22 - A Wired article on ideas to use MAS techniques to distribute power -- "The best minds in electricity R and D have a plan: Every nodein the power network of the future will be awake,responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive,real-time, flexible, humming - and interconnected witheverything else."

  • These machines 'really seem to care 6/10/01 Who points to it? 21 - An article from the Ottawa Citizen describes how Software would letdevices 'sympathize,' understand, nag if they must"

  • When swarm intelligence beats brainpower 6/9/01 Who points to it? 0 - An article on how agent-based ideas are being applied in the financial industry.

  • New Worm Takes On Kiddie Porn 6/8/01 Who points to it? 22 - In what looks like a new twist on virus software a new worm searches forspecific content files onthe victim's computer in pursuit of a social agenda. The worm searches forfiles which containchild porn - it finds them by matching image file names. When it finds suchfiles the worm sendsoff email to government agencies before spreading itself far and wide. Asfar as we can tell this is the first instance of a virus which targets specific socially unacceptablecontent, as opposed to pursuing the usual technical disruption agenda of most viruses.

  • Cheese worm is a helpfl linux virus 5/24/01 Who points to it? 18 - A helpful virus is making its way around theweb, checking computers for vulnerabilities andclosing them.

  • eBiquity 5/20/01 Who points to it? 37 - The ebiquity.org is aa portal maintained by the UMBC mobile computing research group that has news and articles relevant to mobilecomputing, wireless technology and pervasive computing, much ofit with an intelligent agents spin. You can visitthis page to see, post, and engage in discussions around news itemsand articles on all aspects of mobile computing.

  • Researchers Study Web Surfers 5/19/01 Who points to it? 21 - An AP article on research at Xerox PARC on how people search he web -- "The same theories that describe how animals behave whilesniffing for prey also can predict how people ferret outinformation in the jungle of cyberspace, researchers say.Foraging theories, developed by ecologists decades ago, arenow being applied to Internet usage in an attempt to understandhow Web sites can be made more intuitive and less like a maze"

  • A Search Engine Goes Beyond Google 5/18/01 Who points to it? 26 - Ilor.com offers a search engine that has some good usability features build on top of google's basic engine.

  • AOL uses neural-ntwok based web filter 5/9/01 Who points to it? 21 - AOL has begun using a new neural-network filtering system developed by RuleSpace to power its "parental control" options for kids, young teens and older teens.

  • Mindreading ability helps organize thinking 5/5/01 Who points to it? 20 - An article in Monitor on Psychology by Siri Carpenter talks about arecent series of studies led by Paul Bloom which explore howchildren's understanding of their own and others' mental states shapestheir most basic understanding of the world around them.

  • Search Engines Ready to Learn 4/27/01 Who points to it? 16 - An article in the May 2001 issue of Technology Review on Whizbang and their attempts to use ML technologies for web searching and classification.

  • MS Office Helper Not Dead Yet 4/19/01 Who points to it? 19 - "Clippy, the Microsoft Office character that pops up to assist users -- often at the least-helpful times --won't automatically show up in Office XP. But a Microsoft researcher working on the logic behindClippy said that, although the implementation may be off, the technology it is based on is one thecompany's cornerstones for future products."

  • Scientists teach computer to speak 4/18/01 Who points to it? 18 - Dutch-based firmArtificial Intelligence (AI)caused a stir in technologycircles recently by claiming tohave developed a computerthat had learnt language to thelevel of a 15 month-old child

  • The Robot With the Mind of an Eel 4/18/01 Who points to it? 19 - A washington post article on experiments in fusing tissue and technology in machines.

  • online buzz for AI 4/15/01 Who points to it? 20 - The advertizing campaing for the upcoming Spielberg movie AI includes web sites for ficticious organizations and characters, including robot therapist Jeanine Salla.

  • Digital hormones for robots 4/14/01 Who points to it? 20 - Behnam Salemi and hiscolleagues at the ISI havefound a way to makeresourceful robots - digitalhormones.

  • Extreme Robotics: Amazing Feet 4/10/01 Who points to it? 19 - A Technology Review article about Geckobots—small, wall-climbing robots inspired by the agile lizard.

  • New 'Bots" Tell Us How to Invest -- Online 4/9/01 Who points to it? 20 - A NYT article on a "simulated financial helper who resides on www.pioneerfunds.com, a Web site operated by the Pioneermutual fund family, which was acquired last year by UniCredito Italiano, Italy's largest banking group. "

  • Can Computers Make Decisions? 3/29/01 Who points to it? 21 - The March 2001 issue of iMP (Magazine on Information Impacts) is devoted to the problems in getting machines to make intelligent decisions. it includes short articles by George Miller and Roger Schank.

  • Cycorp to release openCyc 3/25/01 Who points to it? 19 - An expanded version of the Cyc Common Sense Knowledge Base will bemade available this Summer in open access form under the nameOpenCyc. Cycorp will also provide the Cyc Inference Engine and a suiteof tools for creating knowledge based applications.

  • These games play you 3/25/01 Who points to it? 17 - Electonic Art's is devledoping an interactive game, Majestic, in which game chacters reach out and interact with players via email and phone calls throughout the day.

  • FIPA agent security cfi 3/25/01 Who points to it? 18 - FIPA seeks input for it's standards in the area of security of agentsystems with the overall aim of producing a white-paper on agentsecurity and standard specifications for agent security.Preliminary work including specifications, models such as trustmodels, designs and implementations are also welcome.

  • FIPA-OS 2.0 released 3/25/01 Who points to it? 19 - Version 2.0 of FIPA-OS has been released. FIPA-OS is an open-source component-based toolkit enabling rapid development of FIPAcompliant agents.

  • Robots Can Learn Much From High-Tech Playthings 3/24/01 Who points to it? 18 - At the annual Toy Fair last month, thehuge annual show in New York wherethe toy industry promotes its newestcreations, robots were everywhere. (NYT)

  • BW Online: Robots 3/24/01 Who points to it? 19 - They're beginning to walk, talk, and, yes, think like people. Is the age of therobo sapien just around the corner? (Businessweek Online)

  • NEC's PaPeRo or "Partner-type Personal Robot" 3/24/01 Who points to it? 19 - A TALKING robot clever enough to heal family rifts may soundlike science fiction. But the makers of PaPeRo — Partner-typePersonal Robot — claim that it can smooth things out whenfamilies are no longer on speaking terms.

  • Getting Raucous Over Robots 3/17/01 Who points to it? 18 - A Wired News article on the FIRST (For Inspirationand Recognition of Scienceand Technology) program,a competition designed togive high school studentshands-on experience inrobotics engineering.

  • Your flexible friend --- modular robotics 3/17/01 Who points to it? 17 - An Economist article from 2/22/01 on modular robitics, including Xerox PARC's polybot.

  • First TV show based on artificial agents? 3/16/01 Who points to it? 20 - Variety reports thatMaxis and ColumbiaTriStar Television are working on on a potential cable series for nextyear based on "The Sims".

  • Marvin Minsky Wants Machines To Get Emotional 3/10/01 Who points to it? 23 - A ZDNet Interactive interview with Marvin Minsky.

  • The 5000 kg autonomous robot 3/8/01 Who points to it? 17 - WHere does a 5000kg autonomous robotjack into the network? Anywhere it wants to.

  • Mining the Mass Mind 3/8/01 Who points to it? 21 - A NYT article on web sitesdesigned specifically for nonspecialists,working alone, who supply simple informationor perform basic tasks. Such projects alreadyreport a total volunteer corps of more than100,000.

  • A Robot That Works in the City Sewer 3/8/01 Who points to it? 21 - A NYT article...Using one network (the sewers) to create another (fiberoptic) means trading in those jackhammers for a robot.

  • Already roaming Web, bots are heading into a new domain 2/27/01 Who points to it? 20 - Some believe the cyberspace agents will handle personaltasks for Internet users in addition to gathering data.

  • OntoEdit Ontology Workbench 2/27/01 Who points to it? 22 - A new version of the OntoEdit Ontology EngineeringWorkbench is available. OntoEdit is a development environment for design, adaptation and import ofknowledge models for application systems. OntoEdit can import and export knowledge bases in RDF and DAML+OIL as well as other formalisms.

  • W3C Semantic Web Activity 2/25/01 Who points to it? 21 - The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has "officially" announced their Semantic Webactivity. The Semantic Web is "the idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can beused by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of data acrossvarious applications."

  • XSLT Extensions Revisited 2/25/01 Who points to it? 18 - The first W3C Working Draft of XSLT 1.1 attempts to solve several problems with XSLT 1.0and add new features that are in demand, but has proved to be controversial in several areas.Leigh Dodds, in an article on XML.com, summarises the debate. (elpub).

  • Software agents that evolve language 2/23/01 Who points to it? 21 - A FEED magazine article on software agents that evolve communication to help in Predator-Prey pursuit.

  • Machine head 2/23/01 Who points to it? 20 - A New Scientist:article on what happens when machines out perform their creators.

  • Beyond the Bar Code 2/23/01 Who points to it? 17 - An article from Technology review on tagging objects with radio beacons. "Within a few years, unobtrusive tags on retail products will send radio signals to theirmanufacturers, collecting a wealth of information about consumer habits—and also raisingprivacy concerns."

  • Deconstructing Harry Connick Jr. 2/23/01 Who points to it? 19 - A Wired article on the problem of recommender systems for music, and several of the new systems which are under development.

  • Incredible Shrinking Robot, Self-Contained and Untethered 2/23/01 Who points to it? 18 - A NYT article on a Sandia National Laboratories team that has created whatthe researchers believe is the world's smallestuntethered robot.

  • Software robots roam the Net, for better and for worse 2/23/01 Who points to it? 19 - This CNN article describes Software bots, including Electric Elvesagents, and their pros and cons.

  • Creating the Soul of a Robotic Dog 2/4/01 Who points to it? 25 - A NYT article on the process of developing Tiger's i-cybie, a roboic dog that will sell for $200.

  • RumourBot tracks source of stories on web 2/2/01 Who points to it? 28 - A BBC news article reports "Robots could soon be patrolling the web to track the source of rumours and slander. Swiss computer company Agence Virtuelle has developed a software robot that uses a battalion of small, smart programs to scour the web for the fount of particular stories."

  • New Scientist: Read my mind 2/2/01 Who points to it? 39 - Vittorio Gallese, Giacomo Rizzolatti and their colleagues at theUniversity of Parma have identified an entirely new class ofneurons that could help explain how animals interpret the behavior and infer the intentions of other animals.

  • Application of Social Analogies to Computational Systems 2/1/01 Who points to it? 39 - VOlume 4 issue 1 of JASS is a special issue devoted to "Special issue Starting from Society: the Application of Social Analogies to Computational Systems".

  • ZDNet's Artificial Intelligence special report 1/31/01 Who points to it? 34 - "In ZDNet's Artificial Intelligence Special, ZDNet charts theroad to sentience, examines the technologies that will takeus from sci-fi to sci-fact, and asks if machines should haverights. "

  • Time for real intelligence? 1/27/01 Who points to it? 19 - By BBC News Online's Ivan Noble"It is time to start building machines which canlearn and be raised in the same way ashumans, the authors of an article in the journalScience say. ...."

  • Intelligent machines threaten humankind 1/25/01 Who points to it? 19 - At least in the movies, according to ZDNET.

  • AltaVista claims ownership of web indexing technology 1/25/01 Who points to it? 19 - AltaVista has claimed a patent on a method of indexing Web sites used bymost search engines and company intranets, and is threatening to suecompanies using these search techniques for patent infringement. "Webelieve that virtually everyone out there who indexes the Web is inviolation of at least several of [AltaVista's] key patents," says DavidWetherell, CEO of CMGI, AltaVista's parent company.

  • Mining the 'Deep Web' With Specialized Drills 1/25/01 Who points to it? 19 - raditional search engines have access to only a fraction of1 percent of what exists on the Web. To dig deeper into theWeb, a new breed of search engine has cropped up that takesa different approach to Web page retrieval. (NYT)

  • AI, the trailer 1/24/01 Who points to it? 18 - Warner has released a quicktime trailer for the much anticipated movie A.I.: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEdirected by Spielberg and begun by Kubrick. "David is 11 years old. He weighs 60 pounds. He is4 feet, 6 inches tall. He has brown hair. His love is real. Buthe is not.&lt

  • Sandholm wins AA'01 Research Award 1/22/01 Who points to it? 19 - Tuomas Sandholm (CMU) has been awarded the 2001 SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award in recognition of his work on electronic markets and multiagent systems.

  • The 'Transformers' are coming 1/21/01 Who points to it? 21 - A BBC News story on Dartmouth's work on self-configuring robots.

  • DAML+OIL semantic web language 1/19/01 Who points to it? 22 - The DAML+OIL language is a semantic markup language under development by the DARPA DAML program which replaces the originalDAML-ONT specification.

  • Web Sites Begin to Self Organize 1/18/01 Who points to it? 19 - An emerging class of self-organizing Web sites aredemonstrating that with a dab or two of well-written codeand a bit of careful planning, a site can take a randomcollection of links or posts and turn them into asophisticated, adaptive system. (NYT)

  • Voice Recognition Still Selective 1/15/01 Who points to it? 19 - A NYT article on current spoken language understanding technology.

  • The Real HAL: AI in Space 1/13/01 Who points to it? 18 - A CNN story on NASA's use of AI and agent technology in Deep Space I.

  • Tough Times for Data Robots 1/12/01 Who points to it? 20 - A controversial 1999 decision made life tough for robots --those automated search programs that periodically crawlthrough Web sites extracting and copying information. Now afederal judge has made it even easier for companies to usethe law to stop the pesky software critters.(NYT).

  • Palm Pilots Now Becoming Robots 1/5/01 Who points to it? 20 - With a $300 kit available over the Web, everyday people can turn theirPalm Pilots into the brains of a small, six-sided robot with three redwheels, equipped with infrared sensors and rechargeable batteries. (NYT)

  • New Age Bidding: Against Computers, Humans Usually Lose 1/3/01 Who points to it? 20 - NYT article on IBMs Institute for Advanced Commerce and work on auction bots.

  • David Cope's Experiments in Musical Intelligence. 1/3/01 Who points to it? 20 - David Cope, is a composer and programmer who twenty year longExperiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI) project explores the the intersection of AI and music.

  • Deep Blue Monk 12/29/00 Who points to it? 18 - A small group working at NASA’s Goddard Space FlightCenter has proposed launching a massive colony of miniature spacecraft – using social insect-inspired artificial intelligence – to spend several years prospecting among

  • AI Hasn't Peaked (Yet) 12/28/00 Who points to it? 16 - A NYT article by Katie Hafner on the state of AI. "Just what constitutes artificial intelligence has alwaysbeen a matter of some dispute. And the terms of the argumentchange with each new advance in computer science."

  • Look, Up in the Sky: Robofly 12/21/00 Who points to it? 21 - Wired News article on insect sized robots.

  • Simple Minds 12/15/00 Who points to it? 21 - Simple Minds -is a FEED article in which authorJenny Offill "looks at the projected learning curve for machines, builds her own bots, and takes a ride to thebleeding edge ofArtificial Stupidity."

  • Track Your Reputation Online 12/14/00 Who points to it? 21 - A NYT article on repcheck.com .. "RepCheck employs an interactive and searchable database of reputation files -RepReports™ - which allows the public to post and view information regarding the personal reputations of themselves and others. Those postings are then transformed, via a rating scheme that weighs the credibility of the source, into a numeric indicator of overall reputation - RepScore™. "

  • Furby! Open the Pod Door 12/14/00 Who points to it? 23 - A NYT report on the Hack Furby Two-fifty contest. (note -- there is a new version with the challenge of porting a Java Virtual Machine to a Furby architecture.)

  • April Programming Competition 12/11/00 Who points to it? 20 - It is with great pleasure that Fujitsu Laboratories of America announces the launch of itsApril Programming Language Competition. April is a distributed symbolic programming language that is suitable forbuilding distributed applications; in particular it is intended to be used tobuild agent-based systems and multi-agent systems. The prize is any new Fujitsu laptop computer up to the value of $5000(USD) for the person (or persons) who write the best application utilising the April programming language.

  • RoboCup-2001 12/11/00 Who points to it? 19 - RoboCup-2001 is the Fifth International RoboCup event and will be held colocated with IJCAI-01 in Seattle August 2-10, 2001. RoboCup is an International entreprisesupported by the RoboCup Federation. RoboCup-2001 will bring together researchers working in avariety of different aspects of multiagent and multirobot systems.

  • IJAIT Special issue on Agents 12/10/00 Who points to it? 20 - The International Journal on AI Tools will publish a special issue on "Intelligent Information Agents in the Internet and the WWW Age" with papers sue on May 31, 2001.

  • Heel. Sit. Fetch Your Batteries. 12/10/00 Who points to it? 19 - The Aibo, a four-legged piece of electronics that resemblesa dog and that Sony has programmed to behave like one,priced at $1,500, hit stores last month and is elicitingstrong responses.

  • The Soul of the Ultimate Machine 12/10/00 Who points to it? 21 - The astrophysicist Larry Smarr talks about what he calls"the emerging planetary supercomputer." The Internet, heexplains, is evolving into a single vast computer. The bigquestion is "Will it become self-aware?" (NYT)

  • Do Androids Dream? M.I.T. Is Working on It 11/11/00 Who points to it? 21 - A NYT article on the MIT AI Lab's robots, Cog and Kismet, and their theological adviser, Lutheran minister Dr Anne Foerst.

  • RuleML Rule Markup Language 11/11/00 Who points to it? 33 - Version 0.8 of the RuleML DTD has been released. RuleML is a developing XML standard for encodeing rules and encompasses a hierarchy ofrules, from reaction rules (event-condition-action rules), via integrity-constraint rules(consistency-maintenance rules) and derivation rules (implicational-inference rules), to facts(premiseless derivation rules).

  • CFT interoperability between FIPA agents in wireless and wireline network domains 10/30/00 Who points to it? 20 - FIPA solicites technology proposals to enhance interoperability between FIPA agentsoperating in wireless and wireline network domains. Requirements incclude: support for disconnected operation mode,support for roaming from one gateway to another,use of profiles to specify the capabilities of gateways and mobile devices, and,technology for bit-efficient representation of FIPA message parts, especially the envelope and the content of the ACLmessage.

  • Software aides learn to anticipate every desire 10/30/00 Who points to it? 21 - A USAToday article on a DARPA sponsored ISI project which is developing "Electronic Elves" which act a personal assitants and employ various kinds of wireless technology.

  • Internet Gray Matter 10/25/00 Who points to it? 19 - This Washington Post article discusses some applications of different AI technologies.

  • ASE Special Issue on Software Engineering for Mobility 10/15/00 Who points to it? 18 - Submissions must be received by January 5, 2001.

  • AIBO 2.0 10/15/00 Who points to it? 20 - A Reuters story on Sony''s new version of it's robotic dog, which is bother cheaper and smarter than the original.

  • Intel Forms Peer-To-Peer Working Group 10/3/00 Who points to it? 23 - Intel announced the formation ofan industry working group to foster standardsand protocols for peer-to-peer computing,particularly in business environments.

  • CFP Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems 9/26/00 Who points to it? 18 - The Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence is calling for papers for a special issueon Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems to be edited by Juergen Dix, Fariba Sadri, and Ken Satoh with papers due January 31, 2001.

  • GPulp Opens Up Web Searches 9/21/00 Who points to it? 23 - The Gnutella Next Generation development team announced on Friday that they aredeveloping a new open source technology for search engines.The group believes that "gPulp" (general Purpose Location Protocol) will eventually becomethe standard search tool on every network and computing device. "GPulp will be a ubiquitous,open, free, and powerful tool that lets users find anything –- anything! -- on any network,"

  • CFP Kluwer MS-AS-SO series 9/21/00 Who points to it? 22 - Book proposals are being solicited by Kluwer Academic Publishersfor their International Book Series on Multiagent Systems, ArtificialSocieties, and Simulated Organizations. The series will includetextbooks and textbook-like volumes as well as research andapplication-oriented monographs.

  • Can Robots Rule the World? Not Yet 9/19/00 Who points to it? 20 - A NYT article on the Humanoids 2000 conference.

  • Robots "R" us 9/19/00 Who points to it? 24 - A Salon.com article which reviews the new book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, by Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio.

  • The Net As One Giant Brain 9/19/00 Who points to it? 13 - A ZDNet article on efforts to use peer-to-peer computing ideas to deliver distributed computing services on the Internet.

  • University of Maine Agent Institute Seminar Series 9/19/00 Who points to it? 22 - The University of Maine and the Agent Institute are holding a series of6 workshops between September 2000 and June 2001. Thesemeetings are designed to introduce agent based technology andcurrent research to the development and industrial/commercial marketswhile at the same time introducing researchers to their market partners

  • JADE 3.0 FIPA platform 9/19/00 Who points to it? 40 - Version 2.2 of the JADE agent development platform has been released.

  • Interview with Sims creator Will Wright 9/19/00 Who points to it? 20 - A feedmag.com interview with Will Wright, the creator of some of the most popular simulation games including simcity and The Sims.

  • BattleBots! 8/29/00 Who points to it? 19 - Comedy Central is now televising Battlebots on Wednesday evenings. Battlebots features homemade remote controled metallic robots that fight to the death in a 48'x48' thunderdome-like arena.

  • Creepy Virtual Beings, Attitude Included 8/28/00 Who points to it? 17 - A NYT article on Sega's Seaman game for the Dreamcast which includes creatures (part fish and part human) that interaxt with eliza-like technology.

  • In Online Auctions of the Future, It'll Be Bot vs. Bot vs. Bot 8/21/00 Who points to it? 18 - A NYT article on automated auction bots which describes the recent ICMAS Trading Agent Competition.

  • Free Riding on Gnutella 8/21/00 Who points to it? 16 - An extensive analysis of user traffic on Gnutella shows asignificant amount of free riding in the system. By sampling messages on the Gnutella network over a 24-hour period, dar and Huberman or Xerox PARC established that 70% of Gnutella users share no files, and 90% of the users answer no queries.

  • Microsoft Sees Software 'Agent' as Way to Avoid Distractions 7/25/00 Who points to it? 21 - A NYT article on Microsoft's plans for an "Attentional User Interface"that will try to guess what information streams - email,phone calls, news feeds -- you want to see.

  • It's Only Checkers, but the Computer Taught Itself 7/25/00 Who points to it? 20 - A NYT article on a checker playing program developed by David Fogel (Natural Selection, inc) which used evolutionary techniques to develop it's program, starting with just the basic rules of the game.

  • Microsoft Agent 7/23/00 Who points to it? 21 - Microsoft has announced new language text-to-speech (TTS)engines licensed from Lernout andHauspie for use with Microsoft Agent 2.0. Agent providesdevelopers with software services that enable them to includeinteractive, animated characters in their applications and webpages. The new TTS engines can be downloaded freefrom the Internet.

  • Gastrobot: a Food powered robot 7/22/00 Who points to it? 21 - A short article from the New Scientist on Chew Chew, a robot developed by Stuart Wilkinson of the University of South Florida in Tampa which is powered by a a microbial fuel cell that harnasesses e. coli to turn food into electricity.

  • SourceForge: Project Info - FIPA-OS 7/18/00 Who points to it? 21 - Version 1.2 of Nortel's open-sourced FIPA-OS platform is available. This version includes support for JESS and CLL.

  • AIBO vulnerable to hackers! 7/14/00 Who points to it? 22 - An advisory warns that hackers have found a way to take over Sony's Aibo robot dog andcommand it to attack and perform other annoying canine tricks by infecting it with malicious code including methods such as PeeOnRug(), ShoeChew()and KillTheCat().

  • US Student Travel Grants for the EASSS 7/2/00 Who points to it? 14 - Travel support should be available for some US students to attend the Second European Summer School on Agents (EASSS 2000) is being held inSaarbrucken, Germany, from August 14 - 18, 2000.

  • Microrobots could play a biotech role 7/1/00 Who points to it? 12 - Swedish researchers have developed abreed of microscopic robots that could workunderwater — or, more importantly, withinbiological fluids. They say the devices couldopen the way for chip-sized biotech laboratoriesor microscale surgical tools.

  • New Scientist: Global brain 6/27/00 Who points to it? 23 - Will the web turn into a global brain, or maybe it has already.

  • ‘Thinking machine’ just a first step 6/27/00 Who points to it? 18 - MS/NBC Story in a silicon circuit of 16 artificial neurons that communicate with one another through artificial synapses.

  • Grasshopper 2 released 6/22/00 Who points to it? 17 - Grasshopper is a platform for mobile and intelligent agents (in Java) with support for CORBA, OMG's MASIF and FIPA messaging.

  • COBA+KQML=Cobalt 6/16/00 Who points to it? 18 - Version 2 of Cobalt, an agent toolkit for sending KQML messages over CORBA, is nowavailable. It is written in Java (jdk 1.2.2 or 1.3) and uses the CORBA ORB provided in the JDK. The main component of KCobalt is a JavaBean to be accessedby agents for transparent message transport.Simple examples of use are also provided with the download : a graphical interface to send/receive KQML performatives, and a KQML parser to senda set of performatives within a file.

  • photorealistic skins for game avatars 6/16/00 Who points to it? 18 - AvatarMe (www.avatarMe.com) is demonstrating a system which can create skins for avatars in popular games such as quake and the sims.

  • In Online Auctions, Rings of Bidders 6/12/00 Who points to it? 21 - An interesting article fomr the NYT on the difficulties of detecting shills and cooperative shilling in on-line auctions and their associated reputation systems.

  • Half fish, half robot 6/12/00 Who points to it? 24 - This short article from New Scientist describes how scientists have created a sinple bot with a menchanical body controled by neurons from the brain stem of a sea lamprey.

  • Sandia's cyberagent 6/10/00 Who points to it? 20 - A popular article on a distributed approach toidentifying and eliminating computer viruses being developed at Sandia.

  • RoShamBo Programming Competition 6/9/00 Who points to it? 20 - The 2nd RoShamBo Programming Competition for C-basedbots who play Rock-Paper-Scissorswill be held later this year (enter by July 10,2000). Try the original RoShamBot at http://chappie.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/roshambot or a new version athttp://contest1.pickem.com/cgi-bin/roshambo/roshambot.cgi(Ken Laws' Computist weekly)

  • Move Over, Dan Rather 6/1/00 Who points to it? 23 - Ananova, a virtual newscaster created by the British PressAssociation, debuted on the Web last month and ranked among themost popular news sites with 1.6 million visitors -- to make Ananova appear human, her creators used advanced speech recognition technology and other tools that give the newscaster not only a face, but also a personality.

  • 18th FIPA meeting, July 17-21, Baltimore 5/29/00 Who points to it? 24 - The 18th FIPA meeting, which will be held 17-21 July 2000 at UMBC, is free and open to FIPA members and interested non-members who are willing to actively contribute to the FIPA process of developing standards for agent technology.

  • Judge Says a Spider Is Trespassing on EBay 5/28/00 Who points to it? 17 - NYT article on the ecent temporary ruling in which a federal judge relied upon theancient law of trespass totemporarily stop an Internetcompany from using a software robot orspider that "crawls" through anothercompany's Web site, extracting andcopying information.

  • Origin of a new species 5/19/00 Who points to it? 23 - An interesting Washington Post article on Gnutella, a fully distributed Napster-like program.

  • When good paper clips go bad... 5/19/00 Who points to it? 17 - Security experts have found a security hole that could be used to subvert the Microsoft paper clip agent and turn it against users.

  • Souped-up search engines 5/18/00 Who points to it? 15 - An Article in Nature about more sophisticated and specialized search technologies for finding scientific information on the Web

  • The Rebirth Of Artificial Intelligence 5/17/00