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*** Topics Covered:
Part 1:
[1-0] What is the purpose of this newsgroup?
[1-1] History of AI.
[1-2] Glossary of AI terms.
[1-3] What are the top schools in AI?
[1-4] How can I get the email address for Joe or Jill Researcher?
[1-5] What are the rules for the game of "Life"?
[1-6] What AI competitions exist?
[1-7] Commercial AI products.
[1-8] AI Job Postings
[1-9] Future Directions of AI
Part 2 (AI-related Newsgroups and Mailing Lists):
List of all known AI-related newsgroups, newsgroup archives, mailing
lists, and electronic bulletin board systems.
Part 3 (AI-related Associations and Journals):
List of AI-related associations and journals, organized by subfield.
Part 4 (Bibliography):
- Bibliography of introductory texts, overviews and references
- Addresses and phone numbers for major AI publishers
- Finding conference proceedings
- Finding PhD dissertations
Part 5 (FTP Resources):
[5-0] General Information about FTP Resources for AI
[5-1] FTP Repositories
[5-2a] FTP and Other Resources: Agents -- Planning
Note: Question [5-2] (FTP and Other Resources) is split across parts 5 and 6.
Part 6 (FTP Resources):
[5-2b] FTP and Other Resources: Qualitative Reasoning -- Theorem Proving
[6-1] AI Bibliographies available by FTP
[6-2] AI Technical Reports available by FTP
[6-3] Where can I get a machine readable dictionary, thesaurus, and
other text corpora?
[6-4] List of Smalltalk implementations.
[6-5] AI-related CD-ROMs
[6-6] World-Wide Web (WWW) Resources
Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly.
*** Introduction:
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