- Open Mind Initiative - http://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.
- Wired News: Wanted: Contents of Your Brain - http://www.wirednews.com/news/technology/0,1282,38466,00.html
- Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC.
- 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.
- SF Weekly Online: News: A HAL of an Idea - http://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.
- 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.
- BBC: Clicking for consciousness - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/903686.stm
- Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC.
- 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. - http://www.mandryka.com:8080
- Maths, Physics and Computing with Linux. Open source code, GPL, Linux, Information retrieval, Search engines
- Webstructor World - http://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.
- 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/
- Offers network appliances. The Adonis Server is a DNS Server that lets you configure your DNS in minutes. The Meridius Mail Relay protects your mail servers while increasing mail-processing performance.
- 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.
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