August 20, 2002 / Vol. 1, No. 7  
NEWSLETTER SPOTLIGHT

Transhumanism
Enabling people to live longer and healthier lives and to enhance their intellectual, physical, and emotional capacities using the modern technology.
https://aboutai.net/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid;=2&article;=aa081002a.htm


FEATURED ITEMS

Information Extraction
Behind the Scenes of aboutAI.net: 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

Computers With Personality
An introduction to chatterbots and other similar NLP-related projects.
https://aboutai.net/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid;=2&article;=aa050802a.htm

Working Like An Ant
AI systems inspired by studies of the natural systems of social insects.
https://aboutai.net/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid;=2&article;=aa091001a.htm


IN OUR FORUM

Information Retrieval
I would really like to know how you retrieve forum threads and job board posts from other sites. I see it's been developed in ASP.NET - could you pls provide us with the source code?
https://aboutai.net/DesktopModules/DiscussDetails.aspx?ItemID=90∣=19

AI + Content Management
I would like to start developing simple content management system, and was thinking about employing various AI techniques for personalization, text classification, etc. Anybody knows some good links or literature on this topic?
https://aboutai.net/DesktopModules/DiscussDetails.aspx?ItemID=88∣=19

Neural networks for stock market prediction?
I'm interested in the topic above. Any help would be much appreciated.
https://aboutai.net/DesktopModules/DiscussDetails.aspx?ItemID=89∣=18


ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB

Game Theory for Real People
This year the event is being hosted by the Institute of Mimetic Sciences, based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. They are moving to develop a communications program that would allow web-based Bots to participate from their native locations.
http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,54131,00.html

Robot Teaches Itself Flying Skills in Three Hours
A robot has taught itself the principles of flying -- learning in just three hours what evolution took millions of years to achieve, according to research by Swedish scientists published on Wednesday.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=search&StoryID;=1329646

Web data extraction with VB.NET
An article that describes information extraction framework deployed at aboutAI.net.
http://www.asptoday.com/content.asp?id=1496

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