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Wired News: Wanted: Contents of Your Brain
http://www.wirednews.com/news/technology/0,1282,38466,00.html
Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC.
Wired News: Two Fake Brains Better Than One
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/09/38745
Short story about Mindpixel, Open Mind, some difference between them, and possible cooperation.
Webstructor World
Object-oriented knowledge management system. Distributed semantic net. Peer-to-peer knowledge management architecture. 2D and 3D visual ontology editor. High-level object-relational language.
Time Europe: Techwatch: Site Seeing
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/0925/techwatch.html
Computers still can't think for themselves. To do that they'd need the cyber equivalent of common sense: the millions of pieces of ordinary knowledge that humans take for granted. Very brief story on Mindpixel and Open Mind.
Open Mind Initiative
World-wide collaborative effort to develop smart software. Collects information from non-expert Internet users, to teach computers the myriad things we all know and which underlie general intelligence but which we usually take for granted. Several subprojects.
New York Times: Researchers Muster Online Volunteers for Collective Brainpower
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/08/technology/08CRAT.html
Brief article describing large volunteer web collaborations: Mindpixel, Open Mind; Open Directory, NASA Clickworkers study (crater identification). Free registration required.
Mizore Artificial Intelligence Project
http://mizore.sourceforge.net/
Two projects Neuralsim and Izumi concerning Artificial Intelligence. Neuralsim is a neural network that attempts to mimic some biological form; Izumi is a text parser concerning natural language processing. It visualizes time-varying linguistic data and draws connections between content.
Mandryka : Maths, Physics and Computing with Linux.
Maths, Physics and Computing with Linux. Open source code, GPL, Linux, Information retrieval, Search engines
Genetic Daemon
http://geneticd.sourceforge.net/
The first genetic engine server, capable to work in a distributed research environment and with parallel processing.
BlueCat Networks
http://www.bluecatnetworks.com/
A provider of DNS, DHCP and IP address management (IPAM) solutions presents its product portfolio comprised of the Proteus Enterprise IPAM Appliance and Adonis family of DNS/DHCP security appliances.
BBC: Clicking for consciousness
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/903686.stm
Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC.