Hello mr. Joe Youmans. From what has been said here I can conclude that you have read one of our old adds on the topic of ICI and have responded. It appears to be a bit unclear as to what exactly you are offering us, altrough we do greatly appreciate all that you offer. The project has progressed since the add you've read has been posted and now we have a lesser demand in getting a permanently online computer for the ICI DNS server and a bigger demand for testing of the software, which requires also your time, not just equipment. However, given the situation, if you can install the ICI system on your computer and have it running, we could use that to test the automated software. The ICI system will come with maximum security options activated, if you wish to provide us access to the automated software, you will have to reconfigure it to allow that (further details on this topic are on the web page, I am simply telling this so you know that ICI is not a security risk like other peer-to-peer and chat software). Additionaly, if you have any time, we would appreciate it being spent helping us debug the software. And if you have any programming skils and/or wish to be one of the authors of the ICI system, you can provide programming experience in the specific areas or actual running programs or source code. We will gladly provide you with what we have devoloped to make contribution to ICI easier and will greately appreciate any piece of software you make or help us make, that is compatible to the ICI system. The ICI system is currently under controlled distribution (has protection against being duplicated out of control) and it has a possibility of being distributed commercialy in the future, however right now it is freely downloadable and a significant number of it's components are actualy lincesed freeware. While the ICI system's main objective is to reach the various goals of Artificial Intelligence, it's various applications also have a possiblity to be used for commercial purposes. If you contribute to the project with code, you will likely recieve freeware software and software parts that you could use commercialy otherwise. My point here is that if this happens, feel free to do so as long as it actualy benerfits the project (this goes ONLY for freeware parts of the system). We will also appreciate theorethical work, that describes ways to achieve any of our goals, including Artificial Intelligence. We look forward to your response. Joe Youmans wrote: >I was thinking of the ICI-ICSA projects .... >Will attempt the install of ICI-ICSA system. >Do you need anything further after the install, please >advise. Neil Nelson wrote: > Dear Joe Youmans, > > Please copy Jure Sah (copied on this email) who also has a > strong interest in this area. The ICI user software in the > system, which has a number of very interesting features > and for which he will have new features shortly, will likely > be providing you with support early on. > > I am personally interested in the Genetic Algorithm > program applied to natural language, but am swamped with > another project at the moment. However, if we can get you > running and you would be willing to let your computer be > used for a distributed GA application it would be interesting > to see if we could get that going. > > If you are interested in doing some C code, Genetic > (automated) Programming is something I would like to get > into. I am also interested in getting a web page together with > all the GA and Parallel processing links on the web organized > and available to those interested in those areas. > > But looking forward to your further cooperation. Observer aka DustWolf aka CyberLegend aka Jure Sah C'ya! -- Cellphone: +38640809676 (SMS enabled) Don't feel bad about asking/telling me anything, I will always gladly reply. "Yes, Master." Have you been told Internet will always be threatened by worms viruses etc? We don't think so: http://208.186.111.189/ici/index.htm MesonAI -- If nobody else wants to do it, why shouldn't we?(TM)