RELEASE INFO (Xtreme Programming)

June 15, 2000 - 20,046 categories.

June 13, 2000 - Filled a few empty templates.  Removed limits on dialogue
  lengths and types in Access.analyze().  19,488 categories. Added 
  ip.cron and classify.c to B.zip

June 12, 2000 - 19,033 categories.

June 5, 2000 - Binary search speeds up StringSorter; Load-time.
  StringSorter class by Yiannis Paschalidis.  Declared 1.25
  Added <getversion/> tag.  Kay Fricke suggested changing Date to
  Calendar because of deprecated methods.  Created dontoc.html

June 2, 2000 - More reorganization of AIML files.  Removed call to
  Classifier.update().  18,027 categories.  Linked to John Friedman's' 
  DTD in Don't Read Me.

May 31, 2000 - Added a few terms to substituter.

May 15, 2000 - Try-catch loop in Classifier.update().  Fixed a few typos
  in AIML files.

May 5, 2000 - Added some code for finding oldest client with ip_date.
  Added some transitive verbs to person_subst for <person/>.  More
  "comments" in B.aiml explaining file contents.

April 24, 2000 - Fixed ip_date bug.  Parese.depth tracks depth of
  <srai> calls, SraiProcessor limits the depth.

April 20, 2000 - Added content to YesNo.aiml and That.aiml.
   Reorganization of AIML files continues.  Added sign predicate.

April 17, 2000 - Rearranged and edited category files.

April 10, 2000 - 16K categories. Added Inventions.aiml.

April 9, 2000 - Added Srai.aiml, reorganized AIML files. 15K categories.
  Experimented with "New.aiml" conventions.

April 6, 2000 - New content by Karolyn, Stan, John F., Andrew, Rob
  and Anthony. 

April 4, 2000 - Merged ology1.aiml into Knowledge.aiml.
  Made default topic be "you".  Globals.getMergePolicy() now
  determines whether to merge or discard duplicate key
  templates at load time. Made 1.24

April 3, 2000 - New content to Knowledge.aiml by Mike Modes, Alain,
  Kingwolfe.   Rich added to Atomic.aiml, Brain.aiml.  

March 21, 2000 - Added ology1.aiml to B.zip

March 17, 2000 - Used Yiannis Paschalidis' StringSorter.add().
  Linked his Bawt.java, dropped most anonymous classes in favor
  of actionId's for each menu/toolbar item.  Declared 1.23

March 16, 2000 - Added AIML content.

March 13, 2000 - Kirk Munoz contributed the ology1.aiml file.

March 11, 2000 - Filled empty templates in Brain.aiml.
  Added Billy Mahoney's set_they patch to Classifier.java

March 10, 2000 - made AIML license comment XML compliant.

March 9, 2000 - Made AIML (more) compliant with DTD.
  John Friedman created xml.alicebot.com for DTD.
  Cleaned up templates with '*' found by Jacco's preprocessor.
  Now AIML files load in program C without errors.
  Removed botint.c and Pretty.aiml.

February 16, 2000 - Updated AIML

January 28, 2000 - ALICE wins Loebner Prize 2000

January 22, 2000 - 1.21 Christian sent revised Germanlanguage.txt,
  Classifier.java and Globals.java
 
January 20, 2000 - Full moon edition 1.2.   Kris and Christiann both
  sent updates.  More foreign language support and improvements to
  Servlet.  

January 19, 2000 - Implemented Kris' suggested pre_process() method
  in Responder classes.

January 18, 2000 - Kris Drent sent Servlet revision.  Added DataDir to
  Globals.  Made this one 1.12

January 15, 2000 - prepended GNU license notice to AIML files.  Declared 1.11.

January 13, 2000 - removed all remaining +~ old style AIML syntax.  Various
  other corrections to AIML by Jacco Bikker.

January 4, 2000 - added custom personality tag.

January 1, 2000 - Declared 1.10 distribution. 

December 28, 1999 - Modified the selection "More Targets" to be
 more incremental.

December 24, 1999 - Declared 1.07 distribution.  Added Globals.advertize.

December 23, 1999 - fixed Kid interface bugs.

December 22, 1999 - Added a few more German labels. Debugged Applet,
  declared Globals, Properties, RobotCommunicator public.
  Included latest German.aiml and Germanlanguage.txt

December 20, 1999 - language.txt now stores language-specific
  GUI labels.  Declared 1.05 version.

December 17, 1999 - improved Loebner logging.  Received Andrew's
  first AlicePlugin package.  Added custom predicate "heard".
  Added Predicatemap.store().

December 13, 1999 - created Loebner.java.  

December 11, 1999 - added timers to multiline_response and
  WebServer.  Changed Responder.post_process from void to
  String, repaired Animagent.

December 5, 1999 - removed applet_multiline_response() and created
  Responder interface and associated XResponder classes.  Removed
  original multiline_response() and all its variants; replaced
  with new Classifier.multiline_response() using interfaces.
  Moved Classifier.log() to AppletResponder.log().

December 1, 1999 - added Globals.getVersion().  Included wav file
  with distribution.

November 27, 1999 - Revamped RobotCommunicator and Kid with
  colors and "Save/Load Personality" feature.

November 25, 1999 - Added dialog recording to Kid.

November 21, 1999 - Used SortedIntSet in Access.dump().

November 19, 1999 - Added warning to <set_animagent/>.  Kid SplashScreen.
  Kid.main now calls Classifier.fromFile().

November 18, 1999 - Bryan Fordham sent Botmaster.aiml

November 17, 1999 - added BirthPlace parameter.

November 16, 1999 - Kris sent new Kid.java and AliceReader.java.
  He changed input of RobotCommunicator to TextArea, set
  scrollbars to none.

November 15, 1999 - added <getsize/>, Substituer.capitalize().

November 14, 1999 - Replaced applet green screen with
  RobotCommunicator class.

November 10, 1999 - Added Kid Interface to Options menu.  
  Added remaining global parameters to Globals and Blet.

November 9, 1999 - More parameters to createApplet.  Optimized
  Bawt.StringTargets().  Christian updated German.aiml

November 8, 1999 - Kris sent Servlet version 1.0.  Made Kid
  call pack().

November 6, 1999 - Added Java Classes section to "Don't Read Me".
  Switched to IBM Linux JDK118.  Tinkered with Personality Wizard.
  Increased sleep time in ClerkManager.  Made Kid call setSize().

November 4, 1999 - Added Andrew's Substituer.wrapLines(). Added
  Kid.java simplified interface.  New ALICEBot.jpg logo.
  Added <think> and <set_thought> tags.  Created servlet subdir.

October 24, 1999 - Optimized save_robot.  Made "Classify" and
 "Save Robot" wait for Loader to finish, warning otherwise.

October 23, 1999 - Made Personality Wizard do Globals.toFile()
  on "finished."  Tinkered with Personality Wizard.

October 20, 1999 - Modified Classifier.save_robot and
  save_robot_as to loop over files, then topics, then
  activation count; to keep topic groups together in files.

October 18, 1999 - This version now includes the <topic>
 tag implementation. This is no longer a deviation of the main
 ALICE package. See the TopicTagReadme.txt file for
 more information. Contributed by Kris Drent.

October 17, 1999 - Modified IntSet for SUN JDK 1.1.8.  Used Webtrends.com
  to debug HTML FORM.  

October 14, 1999 - new German.aiml, tags, doc for tags, Substituter.java,
  custom tag howto in German and German version of dont.txt--all from
  Christian.

October 11, 1999 - created Personality.aiml to store all
  the PWizard questions.  

October 10, 1999 - Christian's new German pronoun tags,
  GermanTags.txt doc included.

October 7, 1999 - PredicateMap class, CustomTagProcessor class,
  Classifier.set_property(), .get_property().

October 5, 1999 - added Bletemplate.aiml to ZIP file. Bug fix.

October 4, 1999 - Created Predicates class to overcome JDK issues
  with Properties.store().  Fixed bug in Persnonality Wizard.

October 2, 1999 - Kris revised AliceReader.java

October 1, 1999 - modified Globals and Classifier to try 
  Properties.store() and then Properties.save() (deprecated).
  Created ClerkManager class to run as a separate thread.

September 30, 1999 - added a dozen new Global properties and created
  the Personality Wizard.

September 28, 1999 - added Kris Drent's AIML parser.  Created W.log
  file to debug WebServer.  Added loading.html to zip file.

September 27, 1999 - replaced notify()'s with notifyAll().  Made
  Clerk class private.

September 26, 1999 - debugged wait() and notify(), added option
  ClerkTimeout.

September 25, 1999 - created applet to advertise alice input lines. 
  created "loading.html" and global parameter BrainSize.  Modified
  Web server to use wait() and notify().
 
September 23, 1999 - created static process_cleint() method for Clerk.

September 22, 1999 - included Blet.aiml in distribution file B.zip.
  Modified WebServer to sleep after creating each clerk. 
  Made "Create Applet" write "Blet.aiml".

September 20, 1999 - fixed filename==null bug in Brain.add().
  Kris Drent modified the Applet to detect the "Enter" key better;
  and provided a delete mechanism for the Green Screen.

September 19, 1999 - bug fixes.

September 15, 1999 - added "Help Help".  Created IntSet and 
 SortedIntSet classes to speed histogramming.

September 14, 1999 - added Dont.aiml markup; added RandomHelp
  and made it the defualt "HELP" button function.

September 12, 1999 - Unified Applet and application with modifications
 to the way client_line_contains and robot_line_start are used.  

September 9, 1999 - Split Brain into Brain and Atomic; moved some
 atomic categories to 65Percent.aiml.  Blew away applet.

September 4, 1999 - now caching Classifier Properties in files
 name ip_*.txt.

September 3, 1999 - ListPatterns creates "patterns.txt" as a side
 effect.  "Save as Text File" takes too much memory with the
 full 15,000 element Pattern list.  Changed doAskRobot to accept
 long inputs and record the results in log file dialog.txt.

September 2, 1999 - fixed bug in class Access. 

September 1, 1999 - added inline HTML feature with lynx.  Modified
  tag activation order in pfkh()

August 29, 1999 - added code to parse <random> tag.  Reorganized
  Parser.pfkh() using TagProcessor interface and helper classes.

August 27, 1999 - added Albert.aiml contributed by Robby Garner.
  Added class Bterm for GUI-less execution.

August 24, 1999 - removed chat1.html file and replaced with
  hard-wired form generation.  Introduced virtual ip clients.

August 23, 1999 - modified pfkh() to implement <system>...</system>
 tag.

August 20, 1999 - modified Classifier and Brain to implement 
  functions needed for multiple file loading with <load/> tag.
  Changed filename suffix to *.aiml.  Default robot file is B.aiml.

August 18, 1999 - created code to support tags <botmaster/>,
  <birthday/>, <location/> and <gender/>.

August 16, 1999 - Modifiled applet Blet.java to read parameters
  from index.html.   Applet HTML file now uses <param> tag to
  specify global parameters to the Applet.  This should all users
  to run the applet without recompiling the java code.

August 15, 1999 - Created tag <get_dialogue/> to retreive the
  client dialogue.  Created Access.analyze(ip) to extract the
  dialogue of a specific host ip.  

August 13, 1999 - Added Brain.ip_age and ip_topic map and associated
  accessor methods;  expanded pfkh() to process <set_age> 
  <get_age/>, <settopic/> and <gettopic/>

August 12, 1999 - Added file menu item "Merge Bots"

August 11, 1999 - Added Brain.ip_location map and associated
  accessor methods;  expanded pfkh() to process <set_location> 
  and <get_location/>

August 9, 1999 - created global parameter ACFURL for the Animagent
  .acf file address.

August 2, 1999 - changed implementation of Globals to use
  Properties class.  

July 28, 1999 - modified header.html so the cursor appears in the form
  automatically.  Changed Altavista to Google throughout B.html

July 25, 1999 - added Substituter.suppress_html(line) which eliminates
  html from the reply line in 4 places: 1) Applet 2) screen log 3) Animagent
  4) text-based chat.  Rearranged unify().

July 22, 1999 - created Animagent class and added Options menu item
  to "Toggle MS Agent".  Fixed a CHAT exception bug.

July 20, 1999 - set default "that" to "What can I call you?" and
  made this the default line in both HOME.html and the ALICE Nexus.
  Limited individual sentence lengths to 256 characters.

July 12, 1999 - added <justthat/>, <justbeforethat/>.  Calculated
  percentages with Classify.

July 3, 1999 - implemented <set_female/>, <set_male/> and <get_gender/>

June 29, 1999 - fixed bug in Unifier.unify(); fixed bug in Parser.pfkh().

June 28, 1999 - modified Globals.toStringform and Globals.fromString,
  distinguished between "user" and "hardwired" options.   

June 27, 1999 - <name/> tag, Globals.getBotName(), Globals.setBotName(),
  <person2>, <gossip>, <name/> in PATTERNS 

June 25, 1999 - Sorting dialogue lines before classifying them.
  Added LineClassifier.classify().  Compare first character in
  unify().

June 20, 1999 - bug fixes to XML parser.  Corrections to B.html
  translated markup.

June 19, 1999 - first version of XML template parser.

June 15, 1999 - created LineProcessor interface and Log class.
  Classifier.classify() replaced with Log.ProcessLines()
  and Classifier implements LineProcessor
  
June 11, 1999 - refactorization of StringList hierarchy,
  renamed StringList to StringVector, similar to Vector.
  Derived class Brain

June 10, 1999 - rewrote Access.java for efficiency

June 9, 1999 - fixed a bug in Unifier.unify so that Patterns
   containing '_' match properly.

June 7, 1999 - gave up on the original Swing version of Class B
  in favor of the more widely useful AWT version Bawt.  Now
  class B extends Bawt.