NEWSLETTER SPOTLIGHT
How Big Brother Became (Artificially) Intelligent
DARPA Total Information Awareness Program is planning to link many government and commercial databases and use data mining to find threatening patterns. Will it reduce the threat of further terrorist attacks or will it erode our privacy even further?
https://aboutai.net/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid;=2&article;=aa122702a.htm
FEATURED ITEMS
Data Mining & Statistical Analysis Using SQL
A review of the book 'Data Mining & Statistical Analysis Using SQL' by R.P. Trueblood and J.N. Lovett.
https://aboutai.net/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid;=2&article;=aa120502a.htm
ArchBot
A chatterbot building architecture using Visual Basic, XML, MSAgent, SAPI and Windows Scripting Host. Full source code and project documentation is provided!
https://aboutai.net/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid;=2&article;=aa090502a.htm
Information Extraction
How to extract information from semi-structured information sources: a short tutorial with pointers to source code samples.
https://aboutai.net/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid;=2&article;=aa071902a.htm
IN OUR FORUM
New Site Announcement: Agents Portal
We are happy to invite you to visit our new portal site (http://aose.ift.ulaval.ca) on Agent and Multi-Agent technology, hosted by the computer science and software engineering department at Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
https://aboutai.net/DesktopModules/DiscussDetails.aspx?ItemID=134∣=18
December Game AI Poll
Thought folks here might be interested in lending their opinion on a new poll I've got up. This one revists an older subject last touched on back in 2000 and asks, "What game genre most *needs* better game AI?"
https://aboutai.net/DesktopModules/DiscussDetails.aspx?ItemID=124∣=18
Khepera Roach Simulation Robot
I am doing my B.eng. project and have been assigned to build my own khepera robot that will act as a cockroach, using only the 100 pounds available budget to build it...
https://aboutai.net/DesktopModules/DiscussDetails.aspx?ItemID=129∣=19
ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB
CodeBaby
The CodeBaby interface will work with users to learn about their preferences and then recommend information, media, and services that are of likely interest to them.
http://www.codebaby.com/
Seeing Around Corners
"The new science of artificial societies suggests that real ones are both more predictable and more surprising than we thought. Growing long-vanished civilizations and modern-day genocides on computers will probably never enable us to foresee the future in detail�but we might learn to anticipate the kinds of events that lie ahead, and where to look for interventions that might work."
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/04/rauch.htm
Rat-Brained Robot
This "hybrot" - in essence a rat-controlled robot - marks the first instance in which cultured neurons have been used to control a robotic mechanism.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_cameron121802.asp
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