Arbajob is a search agent dedicated to employment. You can search by job title, company name and location. It queries multiple dedicated job search web sites. The results can be sorted by date, company, job title, etc.
Arbajob is available for Belgium, France, the Netherlands. It will be soon available for the United Kingdom.

An intelligent robot capable of accurately telling the white from the black has been developed in this capital of northeast China's Helongjiang Province. According to researchers, the receiver in the "brain" of the robot can recognize the black or white color in light of the intensity of signals reflected. The signal is changed to digits by the micro- computer installed in the robot's body and the walking device is controlled through integrated circuits.
Dr. Bao Qingshan with Harbin Poly-technical University, said that the new robot enjoys a great development potential. He and his colleagues plan to take it as a research platform to develop intelligent toys for children.

The Fourteenth International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems IEA/AIE-2001 will be held in June 4-7, 2001 at Budapest, Hungary.
The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum where international researchers and practitioners in Artificial Intelligence can present their work, exchange scientific ideas and results and explore possibilities for collaboration.
Topics of interest include: autonomous agents, intelligent interfaces, intelligent databases, intelligent networks, robotics, speech recognition, etc.

SimCity, the artificial life game that allow you create and control people, will launch TheSimsOnline. Take your Sims to an online world where you get to be yourself or whoever you want to be. Be a peacemaker or pest, a recluse or rabble-rouser. In this open-ended, online world, you choose your role, your attitude and your destiny. TheSimsOnline will be available in 2002.

Project Pandango Inc. is a company formed by the i5 Digital LLC intellectual property development company to launch a search engine based upon their Pandango (taken from the Latin word "Pando," meaning to extend) Peer-To-Peer Web search technology. The XML-based Pandango mixes Peer-To-Peer technology with a distributed version of collaborative filtering (a technology used by the Google engine).

Ford has signed a deal with Oculus Technologies, a Boston-based startup, to use that company's peer-to-peer technology as a way to produce more fuel-efficient cars.
The Ford team will utilize Oculus CO to seamlessly connect geographically dispersed design team members working with different software applications, on disparate operating systems. This will allow Ford engineers to evaluate many more design iterations in a much shorter period of time.

A computer, developed by scientists in Japan, can detect signs of a range of emotional states in the voices of users, including anger, fear and disgust.
To construct their emotionally sensitive computer, Dr John Nicholson and colleagues at ATR Research Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, trained a neural network using 100 different speakers, who spoke to the computer using a large list of words with emotions ranging from surprise and joy to sadness and disgust.
In each case, the computer was told which emotion to associate with what it was hearing through its microphone. As training progressed, the computer became progressively better at linking emotion to the sound of the human voice. By the end of the training, the computer was able to sense the correct emotion about 50 per cent of the time, no matter who was speaking to it.

Digimind Monitor is an automated service for monitoring web pages. Users are alerted by e-mail, Intranet or Intranet as soon as a monitored page is modified. Users can configure the monitoring system using 7 rules of modification. The service allows you to receive monthly statistics of modifications and to archive all the page versions.

The aim of the Starbrain project is to build an artificial brain, which will control the behavior of a life-sized robotic cat. The brain will contain around 75 million artificial neurons, which live in a specially built, highly parallel computer. The kitten will be able to see, hear, and feel. Its behaviors (walking, playing with a ball etc.) will be remotely controlled by the artificial brain via a radio link. All of these behaviors will be evolved, rather than pre-programmed by a human operator.

Sinequa's Audiosurf project consists in indexing Radio France broadcasts in real time and making them accessible through a natural language search system for Internet users.
This is the first time a computer program indexes radio broadcasts in French without human intervention. For the speech recognition, Sinequa has joined up with LIMSI, a specialist laboratory in speech processing.

Sprint plans to make robots that allow telecommuters to have a physical presence in the office. "We want to put more reality into the virtual world," Sprint says. The robot - wireless videoconferencing units on wheels - will not sit at the sides of their teleworker partners, but rather represent them back at the office; robotic surrogates. Should the human half need to chat with the boss or a cubicle-bound co-worker, he will eschew the stifling options of telephone and e-mail in favor of asking his droid to wheel over to the target. A real-time video chat ensues.
You'll have to wait a few years for Sprint to bring them to market.

The objective of the SPARTA project (Security Policy Adaptation Reinforced Through Agents) is the creation, development, provision, composition and management of innovative and intelligent security modules across heterogeneous platforms and networks. The intelligent agent modules are focused on maintaining the level of IT elements security high, while at the same time providing a decision support information to the security managers. The second objective is to define a methodology to elaborate efficient security policy in order to support such advanced functionality as intelligent agent based tools.

CHeF (Collaborative Home e-Fridge) is an intelligent fridge. It connects itself to Internet to buy foods, identify and localize the items, gives personalized response. Tell the fridge what do you want to eat and it will gives you a menu suggestion. It was developed in the Computer Human Interaction Center (CHIC!) who specializes in the research, design, development, and evaluation of new styles of user interfaces to complex systems. CHeF uses speech recognition, natural language processing and handwriting recognition technologies.

CyberBuddy, the utility program that makes use of MicroSoft Agents, has been updated.
Now, you can chat with Multiple CyberBuddies at the same time. A new feature has been implemented: the "Synchronize" function. It allows you to join a chat already in progress with another CyberBuddy. File Transfer Function now added. Exchange files with other CyberBuddies.

Galleon Software, the original developers of MacTicker™, finalized the purchase of PowerTicker from Aladdin Systems. Galleon will continue on-going development and support of PowerTicker. PowerTicker is an agent that gathers information from leading financial Web sites around the world to constantly update your market information

NexTag is an online marketplace that gives individuals and companies the opportunity to buy and sell new, previously owned or refurbished goods, at the lowest price. Buyers can choose from name brand retailers, small stores, or individual sellers and between new or used versions of the same item. They can instantly compare prices for and buy at fixed prices that include tax & shipping.

MyLittleTony is a chatterbot character for Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister. As well as discussing politics with him, you can teach him new things and see transcripts of the best recent conversations. It is based on Kiwilogic's Lingubot technology.