Abstract :
"AI and the Mobile Cloud," explores the growing use of cloud computing to deliver AI-empowered applications to mobile devices. Over time, mobile devices could become the principal means by which users interact with cloud-based, autonomously operating agents. "A Fish Called Filose" describes efforts of researchers at four European universities to design a fishlike marine robot that can navigate shallow waters or tricky currents. "Desktop Data Organization Grows Up" describes the emerging semantic desktop, a personal version of the Semantic Web for organizing an individual\´s thousands of files, e-mail messages, and other digital data in an graph of related items.