Three things heard during my Europe trip last week - not earth shaking (well not that I can send to

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Oda development has stopped since it proved to be too inefficient


Manny Farber at ETH  came up with a neat analogy for the software market in
the future. It should be like kitchen gadgets. Each a small inexpensive
tool that works in a common environment


In talks I heard, autonomous robots are called part of artificial life field.