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To: Urlman who wrote (218)	8/4/2000 4:52:40 PM
From: Savant	Respond to of 6015

Robots msnbc.com search 'Honda humanoid robot' and 'food eating robot' go, see, video. Hope they don't ever mate, have human eating offspring. LOL. No, haven't seen kenjin yet. Google advanced works great. Thanks, S.

To: Urlman who wrote (218)	8/7/2000 9:41:54 AM
From: Savant	Respond to of 6015

Searching, searching..I forget, what are we looking for? LOL mohoPlatform Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2000-- mohoPlatform(TM) Now Delivers Complete Search and Knowledge Mining Capabilities To Portals, Exchanges, Auction Sites, Intranets, Corporate and Government Intelligence Excalibur Technologies (Nasdaq: EXCA), a leading provider of content management solutions for indexing and retrieving text, video and images on the Internet and intranets, and Mohomine, Inc., a company that automates the process of finding, classifying and extracting information from the Internet, intranets or extranets, today announced an OEM licensing and distribution agreement. In addition, Mohomine has licensed the Excalibur RetrievalWare WebExpress product, an intelligent Internet search solution for premium web sites that are dependent on quick, accurate and reliable search. Mohomine plans to search-enable its corporate website with WebExpress. Under the terms of the OEM licensing agreement, Mohomine is integrating Excalibur RetrievalWare(R), an intelligent, Web-based, high-performance search application, into its mohoPlatform(TM). mohoPlatform(TM) combines machine learning with human judgment in a suite of applications so that customers can leverage topic specific knowledge to find, classify and extract digital information. A customized mohoPlatform is ASP-based and incorporates any combination of the following: mohoMiner(TM); mohoClassifier(TM); mohoExtractor(TM); and mohoManager(TM). Originally tested and deployed on www.sourcebank.com, the mohoPlatform uses patent-pending algorithms to improve the precision and recall of topic-specific search results and directory navigation. Developed as an Application Service Provider (ASP) application, mohoPlatform integrates several innovative components for focused crawling, automated information extraction and taxonomy development. Mohomine customers recognize improved editorial and IT efficiencies from the automated process of finding, classifying and extracting content found on the Internet, portals, auction sites, intranets or extranets. "You can stargaze all night and not know what you're looking at if you don't have the right tools." says Mohomine "Chief Moho" Neil Senturia. "Offering Retrievalware(R) as the front-end search platform ensures that our customers have the right tools to automate the complete data mining process, from finding what they're looking for, to classifying and extracting what's been found." About Mohomine Inc. Established in 1999, San Diego-based Mohomine Inc. is a company committed to helping Web sites better serve their customers through advanced knowledge mining technology. Its proprietary mohoPlatform(TM) combines artificial intelligence and machine learning in a suite of applications so that portals, intranets, exchanges, auction sites and corporate and government intelligence can leverage topic specific knowledge to find, classify and extract digital information. Mohomine's products are ASP-based and include any combination of the following: mohoMiner(TM); mohoClassifier(TM); mohoExtractor(TM); and mohoManager(TM). Contact Mohomine at 858.362.3000, via e-mail at sales@mohomine.com or visit their web site at www.mohomine.com About Excalibur Technologies Corporation Founded in 1980, Excalibur Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: EXCA) is a recognized leader in high-performance, search-powered, multimedia content management solutions for intelligently capturing, indexing, managing, accessing and utilizing valuable digital content - including text, images and video. Excalibur works with Global 2000 corporations, software developers, application service providers and government agencies to power Intranet and Internet solutions, corporate portals and eCommerce sites. Excalibur customers and partners include ABC News, AT&T, Akamai/INTERVU, BG Technology, Bloomberg, The Boeing Company, British Telecom, CareerBuilder.com, DataChannel, Discovery Communications, Encyclopedia Britannica, Exodus, Harvard Medical School, ICI, iXL, Johnson Space Center, Loudeye, NCR, Nortel Networks, Parametric Technologies Corp., QXL.com, Raytheon, Reuters, Sony, StorageTek, UCLA, United Airlines, Watson Wyatt and The World Bank. On May 1, 2000, Excalibur and Intel's Interactive Media Services Division announced an agreement to merge and form a new company. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory review and shareholder approval, and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2000. Plans for the new company focus on achieving a leading role in web-based interactive media services. Contact Excalibur at 800-788-7758 or 703-761-3700, via e-mail at info@excalib.com or visit our web site at www.excalib.com. The Excalibur logo and the following are worldwide registered trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation: Excalibur Technologies Corp.(R), RetrievalWare(R), WebExpress(R) and their respective logos are trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation. mohoPlatform(TM), mohoMiner(TM), mohoExtractor(TM), mohoClassifier(TM) and mohoManager(TM) are trademarks of Mohomine, Inc. --30--CF/ph* CONTACT: Excalibur Technologies John Murray, 703/761-3700 jmurray@excalib.com or Terri Slater, Slater Public Relations Inc., 508/650-3904 tlater@slaterpr.com or Mohomine Inc. Dina Moskowitz, 858/362-3000 dina@mohomine.com or Frank Bantle, The Gable Group, 619/234-1300 frank@gablegroup.com

To: Urlman who wrote (218)	8/7/2000 4:55:17 PM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6015

So do you have any hot tips for stocks to start buying now and let collect dust<g>

To: Urlman who wrote (218)	8/9/2000 2:40:35 PM
From: Savant	Respond to of 6015

First DNA Motors Researchers From Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs and University of Oxford Create MURRAY HILL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 9, 2000--Scientists from Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU), and the University of Oxford have created the first DNA motors. The devices, which resemble motorized tweezers, are 100,000 times smaller than the head of a pin, and the techniques used to make them may lead to computers that are 1,000 times more powerful than today's machines. The DNA motor research, described in the August 10 issue of the British journal Nature, is part of a burgeoning field known as nanotechnology, where dimensions are on a nanometer scale - a billionth of a meter. Scientists believe nanoscale devices may lead to computer chips with billions of transistors, instead of millions - which is the typical range in today's semiconductor technology. The more transistors crammed on chip, the more powerful it is. "This technology has the potential to replace existing manufacturing methods for integrated circuits, which may reach their practical limits within the next decade when Moore's Law eventually hits a brick wall," said physicist Bernard Yurke of Bell Labs. DNA, which provides the molecular blueprints for all living cells, is an ideal tool for making nanoscale devices. "We took advantage of how pieces of DNA - with its billions of possible variations - lock together in only one particular way, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle," Yurke said. The researchers designed pieces of synthetic DNA that would recognize each other during each step of making the DNA motors. As a result, the only necessary ingredients in a laboratory test tube were DNA itself. "Because DNA acts as the 'fuel' for these motors, they are completely self-sufficient and do not require other chemicals to operate, " Yurke said. The self-assembling aspect of the DNA motors also is crucial for manufacturing nanodevices. "Given the size scale, no other approach appears to be practical," Yurke said. "This may lead to a test-tube based nanofabrication technology that assembles complex structures, such as electronic circuits, through the orderly addition of molecules." While DNA typically exists in a double-stranded form - similar to a twisted ladder -- the researchers began with three single strands, each resembling a ladder sliced down the middle. Strand A has the correct DNA sequence to latch onto half of strand B and half of strand C, and so joins them all together. Strand A also has a hinge section between the parts that bind to B and C, so that the two "arms" -- AB and AC -- can move freely. On its own, the DNA structure floats with its arms wide open. The arms are pulled shut by adding a DNA fuel strand, which is designed to attach to the dangling, unpaired sections of strands B and C. To re-open the tweezers, the fuel strand is removed by adding another strand with the right DNA sequence to pair up with it. "The entire population of 30 trillion DNA tweezers in a few drops of solution can be repeatedly closed and opened by successively adding fuel and removal strands," said Andrew Turberfield, a physicist at the University of Oxford, who spent a recent sabbatical year at Bell Labs. Other scientists participating in the research were physicist Allen Mills and post-doctoral fellow Friedrich Simmel of Bell Labs and Jennifer Neumann, a graduate student at Rutgers University. Because the DNA motors are too small to be observed with available microscopic techniques, the researchers relied on the phenomenon of fluorescence to detect the closing and opening actions. A pair of dye molecules was attached to the ends of the DNA motors, and when laser light "excited" the dyes, the amount of fluorescent light indicated the distance between the two ends. Yurke said he was inspired to devise DNA motors when he realized molecular-scale protein motors in living organisms are responsible for muscular contraction and moving substances around in cells. The Bell Labs scientists are already working to attach DNA to electrically conducting molecules to assemble rudimentary molecular-scale electronic circuits. Bell Labs is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. One of the most innovative R&D entities in the world, Bell Labs has generated more than 40,000 inventions since 1925. It has played a pivotal role in inventing or perfecting key communications technologies for most of the 20th century, including transistors, digital networking and signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communications satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing, and modems. Today, Bell Labs continues to draw some of the best scientific minds. With more than 30,000 employees located in 25 countries, it is the largest R&D organization in the world dedicated to communications and the world's leading source of new communications technologies. In a recent report, Technology Review magazine said Bell Labs patents had the greatest impact on telecommunications for 1999. Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., U.S.A., designs and delivers the systems, software, silicon and services for next-generation communications networks for service providers and enterprises. Backed by the research and development of Bell Labs, Lucent focuses on high-growth areas such as optical and wireless networks; Internet infrastructure; communications software; communications semiconductors and optoelectronics; Web-based enterprise solutions that link private and public networks; and professional network design and consulting services. For more information on Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs, visit the company's Web site at lucent.com or the Bell Labs Web site at bell-labs.com. Note: A Photo is available at URL: businesswire.com --30--rc/ny* CONTACT: Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs Steve Eisenberg (908) 582-7474 (work) seisenberg@lucent.com or University of Oxford Philippa Corson 011 44 1865 280531 (work) philippa.corson@admin.ox.ac.uk KEYWORD: NEW JERSEY INDUSTRY KEYWORD: PHOTO PHOTOWIRE COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS EDUCATION MEDICAL DEVICES SOFTWARE PRODUCT PHOTO: bb3 Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL: businesswire.com Aug-09-2000 18:29 GMT Symbols: US;LU DE;LUC DE;LUCF CA;LUTI Source BW Business Wire