In the News (in English)
o NewScientist Tech, August 1, 2007 "Sharing a joke could help man and robot interact" (online version of New Scientist print article) (pdf)
o FirstScience News, August 1, 2007 "Robots with a sense of humor" (pdf)
o Wall Street Journal, online: August 1, 2007; print: August 2, 2007 "So, a computer walks into a bar" (pdf)
o Life Style Extra (London South East), United Kingdom, August 1, 2007, "Now, the robot with a sense of humour" (pdf)
o First Science News, August 1, 2007, "Robots with a sense of humor" (pdf)
o Machines Like Us, August 1, 2007, "Robots with a sense of humor" (pdf)
o Eureka Alert August 1, 2007, "Robots with a sense of humor" (pdf)
o FreeRepublic, August 1, 2007, "Ctrl + Alt + Del if you've heard this one before (AI program understands simple jokes)" (pdf)
o Weird World, August 1, 2007 "You made a funny, but it does not compute" (pdf)
o Washington Post, August 2, 2007, "Thursday breakfast bender" (pdf)
o University of Cincinnati, August 2, 2007, UC Researchers Design Humorous 'Bot' (pdf)
o British Computer Society, United Kingdom, August 2, 2007, "Computer bot sees the funny side" (pdf)
o The Mail, United Kingdom, August 2, 2007, "Robot you can have pun and games with" (pdf)
o National Post, Canada, August 2, 2007, "Hear the one about the joke-detecting robot? Two U.S. scientists have the punchline" (pdf)
o Andhra News, India, August 2, 2007, "Now, robots with a sense of humour" (pdf)
o ZeeNews, India, August 2, 2007, "Now, robots with a sense of humour" (pdf)
o Daily India, August 2, 2007 "Now, robots with a sense of humour" (pdf)
o Huliq, August 2, 2007, "Robots with a sense of humor" (pdf)
o New Kerala, India, August 2, 2007 "Robots with a sense of humor" (pdf)
o Times of India, India, August 2, "Now share that joke with your robo" (pdf)
o Iafrika Cooltech, South Africa, August 2, 2007, "Software cracks robot humour" (pdf)
o NerdGrind, August 2, 2007, "Funny Robot" (pdf)
o Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia, August 2, 2007 "Ctrl + Alt + Del if you've heard this joke before" (pdf)
o Clipmarks, August 2, 2007 "Ctrl + Alt + Del if you've heard this joke before" (pdf)
o G4 TV, August 2, 2007, "Robots develop humor; all hopes lost" (pdf)
o Daily Telegraph, United Kingdom, August 2, 2007, "Robot intelligence no joke" (pdf)
o The Inquirer, United Kingdom, August 2, 2007, "Computer can understand jokes" (pdf)
o Tech Gadgets, August 2, 2007 "Computers can now Sense Humor" (pdf)
o Newindpress, India, August 2, 2007 "Now share that joke with your robo" (pdf)
o Tech Shout, India, August 2, 2007 "Newly developed Humorous Bot may soon lend a sense of Humor to Robots" (pdf)
o AS, August 2, "How many robots does it take to get a joke?" (pdf)
o Mumbai Mirror, India, August 3, 2007, "Now, robots with a sense of humour" (pdf)
o ITweek, August 3, 2007, "US researchers develop sense of humour software" (pdf)
o Coputeractive.com, August 3, 2007, "US researchers develop sense of humor software"
o Telegraph, United Kingdom, August 3, 2007, "Scientists build computer with sense of humour" (pdf)
o PakistanUncut, Pakistan, August 3, 2007 "Ctrl + Alt + Del if you've heard this one before" (pdf)
o Daily Times, Pakistan, August 3, 2007, "Ctrl + Alt + Del if you've heard this one before" (pdf)
o ACM Tech News, August 3, 2007 "Sharing a Joke Could Help Man and Robot Interact" (pdf)
o iiRobotics, United Kingdom, August 3, 2007 "Sharing a Joke Could Help Man and Robot Interact" (pdf)
o CBC News, Canada, August 3, 2007, "Software still searching for the punchline" (pdf)
o Virtual World News, August 3, 2007, "Sharing a Joke Could Help Human and Robot Interact" (pdf)
o New Scientist, August 4, 2007 "Sharing a joke could help man and robot interact" (pdf)
o Softpedia, August 4, 2007, "New computer laughs at jokes" (pdf)
o Museum of Hoaxes, August 5, 2007 "Ctrl + Alt + Del if you've heard this joke before" (pdf)
o Olle Axelsson, Sweden, August 5, 2007 "AI understands jokes" (pdf)
o Columbus Dispatch, August 6, 2007, "Computers Get Jokes in Tiny Bytes" (pdf)
o Punjab Kesari, India, August 2007, "Now, robots with a sense of humour" (pdf)
o KnowledgeForward, August 6, 2007, "You Want Me To Shut Down? Is That the Opposite of Shutting Up? Ha!" (pdf)
o Chatbots, August, 2007, "Joke with your robots" (pdf)
o Australian IT, Australia, August 7, 2007, "Sense of humour for bots" (pdf)
o Spin 103.8, Irish Broadcasting, Ireland, August 7, radio interview
o MC Press, Canada, August 10, 2007, "Laughing with, not at, computers" (pdf)
o Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, August 14, radio interview (raw mp3 file)
o Scientific Blogging, August 15, 2007, "Researchers Design Software That Recognizes Jokes - Sort Of " (pdf)
o Dr. Dobb's Portal, August 16, 2007, "Knock, knock" (pdf)
o Inky Circus, August 16, 2007, "Robot Now Gets Jokes" (pdf)
o TGdaily (Trendwatch), August 16, 2007 "Researchers develop software that laughs at bad jokes" (pdf)
o PhysOrg.com, August 16, 2007 "Researchers design humorous 'bot'" (pdf)
o ScienceMode, August 16, 2007, "No kidding, scientists develop software that recognizes jokes" (pdf)
o Ars Technica, August 16, 2007 "New robot thinks knock-knock jokes are funny" (pdf)
o Megite Science News, August 16, 2007 "Researchers design humorous 'bot'" (pdf)
o Scientific American: 60-seconds science (radio program) August 17 (mp3)
o 3 Quarks Daily, August 17, 2007 "One step closer to true AI, new robot gets" (pdf)
o Science Daily, August 17, 2007, "Humorous bot recognizes jokes" (pdf)
o The Poorhouse, United Kingdom, August 21, 2007, "Robo-comedians" (pdf)
o CNET Reviews. Buzz Out loud (podcast) Episode 541: 30:50 into the podcast (mp3)
o Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2007, "Take my computer please" (pdf)
o Science Update (radio interview), August 27, 2007 (online transcript.pdf)
o Discovery Channel, August 28, 2007, "Computer programmed to get the joke" (pdf)
o Sawf News, India, August 29, 2007, "Now, computers that can also crack jokes" (pdf)
o Andhra News, India, August 29, 2007, "Now, computers that can also crack jokes" (pdf)
o BigNewsNetwork, August 29, 2007, "Now, computers that can also crack jokes" (pdf)
o Rediff News, India, August 29, 2007, "Now, computers that can also crack jokes" (pdf)
o The Economic Times, India, August 29, 2007, "Now, computers that can also crack jokes" (pdf)
o Malaysia Sun, Malaysia, August 29, 2007, "Now, computers that can also crack jokes" (pdf)
o Ohio Standard, August 29, 2007, "Now, computers that can also crack jokes" (pdf)
o Times of India, India, August 29, 2007, "Now, PCs that can crack jokes" (pdf)
o One India, India, August 29, 2007, "Now Computers Can Also Crack Jokes" (pdf)
o Impact Lab, August 29, 2007, "Computers With a Sense of Humor?" (pdf)
o Times of India, India, August 30, 2007, "PC acquires a sense of humour" (pdf)
o Franklin Magazine, August 31, 2007, "Bots still don't get irony" (pdf)
o As It Happens (radio program, radio interview), September 4, (broadcast sound)
o Radio New Zealand National (radio program, radio interview), September 6, 2007
o 4eng, September 9, 2007, "Humorous 'Robot'" (pdf)
In the News (other languages) very small sampling - the quick translation into many languages was surprising:
o ScienceTicker, Germany, August 1, 2007, "Computer lernt Witze erkennen" (pdf)
o Welt, Germany, August 2, 2007, "Echt witzig - da lacht der Computer" (pdf)
o Le Nouvel Observateur, France, August 2, 2007, "Humour mécanique" (pdf)
o Robot Impact, France, August 2, 2007, "Les robots ont désormais le sens de l'humour" (pdf)
o Pequei no Google, Brazil, August 2, 2007 "Pesquisadores ensinam robô a 'rir' de piadas" (pdf)
o O Popular On-Line, Tecnologia, Brazil, August 2, 2007 "Pesquisadores ensinam rob? a 'rir' de piadas" (pdf)
o Focus Online, Germany, August 2, 2007, "Computer erkennt Humor" (pdf)
o Nuevo Excelsior, Mexico, August 3, 2007, "Incluyen el cibersentido del humor" (pdf)
o filosofie, Belgium, August 4, 2007, "De robot die moppen tapt - De conceptuele ingenieur" (pdf)
o Sostav, Ukraine, August 6, "Iskusstvenny intellekt nachnet shutit'"(pdf)
o Ekapija, Serbia, August 7, 2007, "Ctrl+Alt+Del ako ste ovo vec culi..." (pdf)
o Pravda, Russia, August 7, 2007 "U komputerov poyavilos' chuvstvo yumora" (pdf)
o Ny Teknik, Sweden, August 7, 2007, "Här är första skämtet en dator har gillat" (pdf)
o ENI News, Bosnia, August 7, 2007, "Ctrl+Alt+Del ako ste ovo veç ãuli..." (pdf)
o Lifestyle Bosnia, Bosnia, August 7, 2007, "Ctrl+Alt+Del ako ste ovo veç ãuli..." (pdf)
o Vista, Vietnam, August 8, 2007, "Táuao váuu ha i haoáuyc cho nháuUng cáuO maay" (pdf)
o Robotyka, Poland, August 9, 2007, "Powstajà roboty z poczuciem humoru" (pdf)
o Coolstreaming, Italy, August 11, 2007, "Il computer con senso dell'umorismo" (pdf)
o RHO.Empreendedor, Portugal, "Um programa de computador que entende piadas" (pdf)
o Futura-Sciences, France, August 14, "Le robot qui a le sens de l'humour" (pdf)
o NeoTeo, Argentina, August 14, 2007, "Un robot que entiende tus chistes malos" (pdf)
o Tweakers, Netherlands, August 20, 2007 "Humorbot' herkent grappen" (pdf)
o Silicon, Germany, August 28, 2007, "US-Wissenschaftler haben ein Programm vorgestellt, das angeblich Witze verstehen kann" (pdf)
o KL!K, Croatia, August 28, 2007, "I androidi çe se smijati Monty Pythonovcima" (pdf)
o Startpagina, Netherlands, September 5, 2007, "Universiteit bouwt software die grappen herkent" (pdf)