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BBC: Clicking for consciousness  news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/903686.stm Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC.

BlueCat Networks  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.

Genetic Daemon  geneticd.sourceforge.net The first genetic engine server, capable to work in a distributed research environment and with parallel processing.

Mandryka : Maths, Physics and Computing with Linux.  www.mandryka.com:8080 Maths, Physics and Computing with Linux. Open source code, GPL, Linux, Information retrieval, Search engines

Mizore Artificial Intelligence Project  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.

Open Mind Initiative  www.openmind.org 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.

Webstructor World  www.webstructor.net 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.

New York Times: Researchers Muster Online Volunteers for Collective Brainpower  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. (March 8, 2001)

SF Weekly Online: News: A HAL of an Idea  www.sfweekly.com/issues/2000-11-15/bayview.html Dr. David Stork is trying to create a new computer that thinks like a human being. But he needs your help. (November 15, 2000)

Time Europe: Techwatch: Site Seeing  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. (September 18, 2000)

Wired News: Two Fake Brains Better Than One  www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/09/38745 Short story about Mindpixel, Open Mind, some difference between them, and possible cooperation. (September 15, 2000)

Wired News: Wanted: Contents of Your Brain  www.wirednews.com/news/technology/0,1282,38466,00.html Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC. (September 1, 2000)