The file links.txt is a list of web links that we recommended, back in the early 2000s. We are no longer maintaining this list, but have put it here for anyone to use as they see fit.
Each line in links.txt has the format: Title* url topics.genre comment For example,
Agents Web (UMBC)* http://agents.umbc.edu intro,agents.edu Great site for agent news and software.
is a line whose fields are as follows:
title = 'Agents Web (UMBC)'
star = True
url = 'http://agents.umbc.edu'
topics = {'intro', 'agents'}
genre = 'edu'
comment = 'Great site for agent news and software.'
The * character at the end of the title is optional; if present it means that the link is highly recommended. The title ends where the url begins; a url starts with http:, https:, ftp:, or mailto: (so those strings can't occur in a title). The url ends with whitespace, then we have one or more comma-separated topics followed by a . and exactly one genre. Everything after that is the comment. We supply code to parse this format. The topics and genres are as follows:
| TOPIC | Description | GENRE | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| intro | Overview of AI | ref | reference | |
| agents | Intelligent Agents | list | Lists of Links | |
| search | Search and Game Playing | jour | Journals | |
| logic | Logic and Knowledge Representation | people | People | |
| planning | Planning | com | Companies | |
| uncertainty | Reasoning with Uncertainty | news | News & Mail lists | |
| learning | Machine Learning | soft | Software | |
| nlp | Natural Language Processing | edu | University Research Groups | |
| robotics | Perception and Robotics | org | Nonprofit Organizations | |
| phil | Philosophy and the Future | humor | Humor | |
| lisp | AI Programming (Lisp) | |||
| python | AI Programming (Python) | |||
| prolog | AI Programming (Prolog) | |||
| java | AI Programming (Java, etc.) |