September 09, 2002 / Vol. 1, No. 8  
NEWSLETTER SPOTLIGHT

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


FEATURED ITEMS

Building a Content Management System
A review of the book "Real-World ASP.NET: Building a Content Management System", including links to the related online resources.
https://aboutai.net/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid;=2&article;=aa082702a.htm

Grid Computing
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;=aa062602a.htm

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


IN OUR FORUM

Knowledge Management
I'm looking for some kind of open-source project demonstrating basic knowledge management techniques...
https://aboutai.net/DesktopModules/DiscussDetails.aspx?ItemID=100∣=19

Intelligent agents using VB
I am interested in intelligent agents/multiagent systems. I was wodering if I could use visual basic for developing the intelligent agents...
https://aboutai.net/DesktopModules/DiscussDetails.aspx?ItemID=99∣=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

Just-in-time information retrieval agents
A just-in-time information retrieval agent (JITIR agent) is software that proactively retrieves and presents information based on a person's local context in an easily accessible yet nonintrusive manner. This paper describes three implemented JITIR agents: the Remembrance Agent, Margin Notes, and Jimminy. Theory and design lessons learned from these implementations are presented, drawing from behavioral psychology, information retrieval, and interface design. They are followed by evaluations and experimental results. The key lesson is that users of JITIR agents are not merely more efficient at retrieving information, but actually retrieve and use more information than they would with traditional search engines.
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/sj/393/part2/rhodes.html

ActiveBuddy's Patent Win Riles IM Bot Developers
You may heard about crazy patent claims, but how about this: "We invented interactive agents. Anybody using his or her own tools (to make bots) is obviously using our technology without paying us to license the server, for example."
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/1446781

How People Learn
"How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School", a full-text book from national Academy Press.
http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309065577/html/index.html

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