ODP - Open Directory Project

"The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors."

Computers: Artificial_Intelligence: Distributed_Projects:

See also:

BBC: Clicking for consciousness - Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC..

BlueCat Networks - 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..

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

Mandryka : Maths, Physics and Computing with Linux. - Maths, Physics and Computing with Linux. Open source code, GPL, Linux, Information retrieval, Search engines.

Mizore Artificial Intelligence Project - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Short story about Mindpixel, Open Mind, some difference between them, and possible cooperation. (September 15, 2000).

Wired News: Wanted: Contents of Your Brain - Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC. (September 1, 2000).

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ODP - Open Directory Project

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