Article on Digital Companions project in Science

SICS is one of the research partners in a EU Project on Digital Companions. Professor Yorick Wilks, at Oxford Internet Institute, who is the coordinator of the project, has an article about it in a recent issue of Science (9 November 2007: Vol. 318. no. 5852, pp. 927 - 928. DOI: 10.1126/science.1148895). It is entitled: Is There Progress on Talking Sensibly to Machines?
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/318/5852/927
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~lucy/yw_pubs/Wilks_S07.pdf

If you would like a concrete sense of an early version of a digital companion — what Yorick calls an ‘initial incarnation of a companion’, see: http://www.nabaztag.com and adopt a rabbit. For more general information about the Companions Project, see: http://www.companions-project.org/