Monday, November 22, 2004

Computers as Authors? Literary Luddites Unite!. A computer program known as Brutus.1 is generating brief outbursts of fiction that are probably superior to what many humans could turn out. By By DANIEL AKST. [NYT > Technology] 9:24:24 AM      Google It!.

It's Got a Z, It Must Be Edgy. Take the Sims to the big city, let them mix with punkers, ravers and slackers, and The Urbz delivers an amusing, yet frustrating experience. By Lore Sjöberg. [Wired News] 9:10:26 AM      Google It!.

Reasoning and Ontologies for Personalized E-Learning in the Semantic Web - Nicola Henzem, Peter Dolog, Wolfgang Nejdl; Journal ETS. The challenge of the semantic web is the provision of distributed information with well-defined meaning, understandable for different parties. Particularly, applications should be able to provide individually optimized access to information. ... Especially in e-Learning, it is important to overcome the one-size-fits-all approach and provide learners with individual learning experiences. Learners have different requirements (like their individual learning style, their actual progress in the learning process, their individual background knowledge, but also more technical requirements like the device they are currently using for accessing the E-Learning materials, etc.).[Online Learning Update] 9:09:16 AM      Google It!.