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Monday November 5 2:00 PM ET Use of Napster-Alternatives Rose in Oct. -WebnoizeLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Users swapped 1.81 billion media files on Napster (news – web sites)-alternative services like Kazaa, MusicCity and Grokster, which have seen usage rise since Napster shut down in July to legal pressures, a research firm said on Monday. Web … Continue reading “Peer to Peer Explosion”

AI / Natural Language discussion grouphttp://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=comp.ai.nat-lang

From: CorporateInfo (TelegraphHillSF@yahoo.com)Subject: Expert scoffs at Autonomy software Newsgroups: comp.ai.nat-langView: (This is the only article in this thread) | Original Format Date: 2001-08-23 21:49:53 PST At Genentech headquarters today in South San Francisco, there was aseminar on “Metadata & Controlled Vocabularies: What Are they and Whatis their Value?” given by Amy Warner, faculty member in … Continue reading “Scoffing at Autonomy”

From: Jorn Barger (jorn@enteract.com)Subject: Semantics and NLP Newsgroups: comp.ai.nat-langView: Complete Thread (19 articles) | Original Format Date: 2001-11-05 06:10:02 PST Judging from the replies I got to my recent ‘newsdiff’ posting, itappears university programs in AI are (still) doing an extremely bad jobof covering *semantics*… An unabridged dictionary may have half a million entries. Roget … Continue reading “Jorn’s Ontology”

Latest from Robot Wisdom.XML bumps into AI problemsIncluding essay on Cyc and links to Cyc home pages Current Work of IEEE’s Standard Upper Ontology projectPromising scope, but still thrashing about.

How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the InternetReally important social history view on Internet, Communication, Interaction and Technology from Douglas Adams September 1999.http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html

Genesis – Artificial Life ProjectCambridge academic research project using a model for simple living cells to evolve by Darwinian processes. Unclear if and how this will reach the the level of “intelligence”, or any definition of such. Whacky web site though.

Information Leakage via WebMostly a technology subject, about the kinds of things a web host can pick-up about a users system from a single user hit.