BBC News has an article about using computer vision and pattern recognition to identify people by their gait -- Walk Offers Clues to Identity. Naturally, super-models are used to demonstrate the technology and picking out terrorists is listed as one of the applications...

Chicago Chronicle discusses the process of natural language acquisition, and how it is a fundamentally imperfect process causing changes in grammar and vocabulary; Niyogi Uses Computers to Analyze Language Evolution. Software is attempting to simulate this, in order to "study is the interplay between learning by individuals and evolution in populations."

Finally in The Star Online, for those lonely malaysian speakers among you, there's a new AI text messaging service that will keep you company when your friends aren't around -- Chatting with a Real Hot, Intelligent Bot.