12/31/00 - 2000: A Year in Review
A brief summary of the most important AI-related events, products and technologies.
12/23/00 - Seeing is Believing: Face Recognition
A short introduction to the Face Recognition techniques, including links to the related resources, source code and commercial packages.
12/16/00 - AI Sourcebook, Part I: Neural Networks
Learn about various neural network algorithms by programming: freely available source in C/C++, Java, Pascal, Delphi, Visual Basic...
12/08/00 - Text Summarization
Turn information into knowledge: quickly grasp the key concepts hidden in electronic documents.
11/30/00 - All I Want For Christmas Is...
The finest selection of AI-related kits, toys and gadgets available for this holiday season.
11/24/00 - Honey, I Shrunk the Robot!
Building machines smaller than a single human cell: today's science fiction becomes tomorrow's science.
11/16/00 - AI in Computer Games
Find out more on 'smart' computer games that incorporate verious AI techniques and learn about new AI-based SDKs for game developers.
11/08/00 - Back to Basics: Genetic Algorithms
Using a biological process metaphor to derive solutions to tough computing problems.
10/30/00 - The Right Stuff
Need inspiration for your next project? Take a look at the next generation of robot space explorers.
10/21/00 - Look Ma, No Hands!
New tools and standards for developing speech-enabled Web applications.
10/13/00 - Search Engines: The Next Generation
AI-based solutions for capturing and indexing the vast amount of information available on the Web.
10/06/00 - Wordwide Virtual Computer
Computing power from millions of Internet-connected computers at your fingertips: services and software that can manage complex systems of disparate computing resources.
09/28/00 - A Breath of Fresh Air: Project Oxygen
Ubiquitous computing - concept that will enable us 'to do more by doing less' by stretching the limits of human-computer interaction.
09/21/00 - Data Extractors
Fighting the 'infoglut': easy-to-use tools for information retrieval, data aggregation, content engineering and similar tasks.
09/13/00 - Smart Toys
AI-related technologies used for developing 'smart', interactive and Web-enabled toys.
09/06/00 - iRobot
Giving the Internet 'eyes, ears, and wheels' using robotic technology.
08/29/00 - AI Challenge to Computer Intruders
A brief review of AI-related, commercially available antivirus products and research projects.
08/21/00 - Home Robots
Is there a home robot in your future? Learn more about various types of robotic vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers and universal domestic robots.
08/13/00 - Applied AI: TradingSolutions
New software package that allows you to perform complex financial forecasting without leaving you lost in the state-of-the-art AI technology.
08/06/00 - Back to Basics: Data Mining 101
Getting started with Data Mining? Here is a quick guide with information on basic concepts and best online resources.
07/27/00 - "Smart" JavaBeans
IBM offers a set of "intelligent" software components, enabling fast development of intelligent agent applications.
07/18/00 - ZISC
Learn about the new paradigm that is offering ultra-fast computing capabilities for image and signal compression/recognition, data mining and other AI-related tasks.
07/12/00 - World Wide Brain
WWW as the global brain - an emergent, distributed, worldwide intelligence.
07/05/00 - Mighty Microcontrollers
New generation of powerful microcontrollers enables programming robot brains in Visual Basic or Java.
06/27/00 - Bots in Wonderland
Details on the chatterbot that won this year's Loebner Prize: XML in the field of Natural Language Understanding.
06/20/00 - Real World Cyborgs - Part Two
Meet more researchers trying to bridge the hardware/wetware gap, starting with UK's famous 'cyborg professor' and ending with such exotic and futuristic techniques as 'mind uploading'.
06/13/00 - Real World Cyborgs
Several research labs are exploring how to directly interface computing devices and brain cells. What implications will this technology have, especially for the lives of disabled people?
05/30/00 - New Robot Pets
Several 'Aibo-type' canine robots are about to be released. Learn more on their capabilities and related technologies...
05/23/00 - Learning to Fly
Your first flying robot doesn't have to be complicated and expensive. Robot blimps are easy to build, cheap, quiet and forgiving in flying errors.
05/09/00 - Querying the Web
Languages and systems for accessing the semi-structured data on the Web: SQL-style information retrieval.
05/02/00 - Evolvable Hardware
Applications of evolutionary techniques to the hardware circuit synthesis.
04/25/00 - Jess
Making mobile agent more 'intelligent' using one of the most popular expert system shells.
04/18/00 - Chatterbot Creators
Tools for the rapid development of chatterbots and similar NLU applications.
04/10/00 - Sentient Technology
Developers of the most popular Artificial Life game are now trying to embed life-like creatures into hardware.
04/04/00 - Modular Robots
Description of the modular, self-reconfigurable robots that show the promise of versatility, robustness and low cost.
03/27/00 - Get A(rtificial) Life!
Short review of the most popular Artificial Life simulators.
03/13/00 - Machine Translation
Short introduction to the field of Machine Translation, including an extensive list of related products and resources.
03/05/00 - Real World Androids
Research labs around the world are developing anthropomorphic robots: join us for a brief review of related projects with pointers to the best Web resources.
02/26/00 - Artificial Muscles
Introduction to the alternative ways of making your robots mobile: nitinol wires, Electroactive Polymer Actuators, pneumatic muscles...
02/19/00 - Cyc
The world's largest general-purpose knowledge base, containing over one million facts and rules.
02/12/00 - Can computers write stories?
New sophisticated artificial storryteller, including related topics and links to the best resources in Natural Language Generation.
02/05/00 - Network Query Language
New network programming language for the rapid development of agent applications.
01/28/00 - Smart Clothes
From smart T-shirt that can save soldiers' lives to the newest wearable computers: trends, newest developments and links to the related resources.
01/20/00 - Prolog
Popular 'fifth generation' programming language that supports declarative programming paradigm.
01/13/00 - Mobile Agent Development Tools
Survey of several new development tools for building mobile agent systems and related applications.