Organizations: Both general and special interest organizations have home pages, with resources including pages for the journals they publish, upcoming meetings, awards, special interest groups, constitutional matters, subscription and membership information, and FAQs. These resources can be extremely detailed, including, for example, searchable abstracts from the proceedings of all conferences held under the auspices of the organization, and all its magazines and journals.
A few examples are:
Journals and Newsletters: Journals of interest to the AI community have sites that include full text and/or abstracts of some or all of the articles published. Many journal sites include table of contents of issues and information on where and how to submit papers. A few examples are:
The Canadian AI Magazine published by the CSCSI
(Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence)
[http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/cscsi/papers.html]
- includes abstracts and the text of some articles
Bibliographies and Article archives on AI are held
at a number of sites including:
Bibliographies on Artificial Intelligence [ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/bibliography/Ai/index.html]
has links to several bibliographies for journals including AI
Expert, IEEE Expert, AI Magazine, and many more.
In addition, there are topic based bibliographies including distributed
AI, expert systems, expert system shells, interface agents, data
mining, and many more.
the OFAI and IMKAI library information system [http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/biblio.html],
provided by the Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial
Intelligence at the University of Vienna (IMKAI) and the Austrian
Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) contains
over 36,000 items (books, research papers, conference papers,
journal articles) from many sub-areas of Artificial Intelligence.
the HCI Bibliography Project [http://hyperg.tu-graz.ac.at:80/D50FFDEC/CHCIbib]
contain extended bibliographic information (abstract, key words,
table of contents, section headings etc.) for most publications
on Human-Computer Interaction dating back to 1980 and selected
publications before 1980.
Artificial Intelligence and Inductive Learning Archive at
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign [http://www-ilg.cs.uiuc.edu/info/archives.htm]
has a list of AI and machine learning related archives.
Complete text of papers published by members of a site's AI Research group are available at many locations, including the ITK (Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg) [http://itkwww.kub.nl:2080/itk/Docs/Papers/]
and the Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive Science report and
reprint archive of the Computer Science Department at Indiana
University [ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/leake/INDEX.html]
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS): There are many pages with answers to frequently asked questions.
Our list [ai-faq.htm] links to over twenty useful FAQs.
Meetings/Conferences: Calls for Papers for both journals and meetings are common. Meetings and conference sites include calls for papers and in some cases schedules, abstracts, and even the full text of papers presented. Examples of conference lists include:
A database of AI Conferences [http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/]
is provided by the Department for Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Vienna, and the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria, Europe.
Grant Information for organizations such as the National
Science Foundation [http://www.nsf.gov/]
and European Commission [http://www.echo.lu/home.html]
are available on WWW. One general starting point is the University
of Tennessee's Research Services page at [http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/].
Another worthwhile source may be The Corporation for National
Research Initiatives at [http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/].
For a broader search, possibly the best way to find this type
of information is to use the Lycos Search Engine [http://query1.lycos.cs.cmu.edu/lycos-form.html]
with appropriate keywords (e.g., 'grants AI' produced information
on grants for medical-related AI)
Academic Departments: Academic departments have pages
of interest. Many of the departments include special sections for their AI
activities.
Research Labs and Research Groups: Several AI research labs and research groups have pages that include details of projects, publications, and software.
A few examples of AI Labs are:
Companies: Numerous companies with AI related products, services and research labs also have web pages. A few examples are:
Inference Corp. [http://www.inference.com/] features information on ART*Enterprise and CBR2 (CBR Express and CasePoint) including product demonstrations and success stories from customers.
The Price Waterhouse Technology Centre, USA [http://www.pw.com/] - includes descriptions of their expert systems
Teknowledge Corporationhttp://www.teknowledge.com/ has information on their Intelligent Systems Integration program and other products and services
A more extensive list:
Our list [ai-com.htm] has links to around forty companies.
Individuals' home pages: Many individuals include a list of their research publications on WWW so if you find an article of interest, checking to find subsequent publications and working papers on similar topics is relatively easy to do on lists of home pages. For example:
Artificial Intelligence Personal Home Pages [http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/ai_people.html]
(a list of lists, including one for famous AI researchers)
Teaching Resources: Teachers are beginning to provide
course outlines, tutorials, teaching notes, and other teaching
materials to students on WWW. Many are willing to share these
materials with others and post them on lists such as
Clips [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/~clips/CLIPS.html]
- a productive development and delivery expert system tool which
provides a complete environment for the construction of rule and/or
object based expert systems.