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Volume 1, Number 2
Baltimore, January 15, 1996
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/agents/agentnews/1996/01.15.shtml
-- AGENT TECHNOLOGY --
Safe-Tcl Concepts now in Tcl 7.5 . Sun Labs has built most of
the concepts of Safe-Tcl into Tcl 7.5 , now
available in as an alpha release. In addition to running on PCs and
Macs (with a Motif look and feel), this new version lets you
dynamically load binaries and create additional interpreters and
execute untrusted scripts using a generalization of Borenstein's and
Rose's Safe-Tcl. Ray Johnson (Raymond.Johnson@Eng.Sun.COM) reports
that they have some examples of it running with a web browser and are
considering creating a Netscape Plug-in to run safe Tcl scripts (See
http://www.sunlabs.com:80/research/tcl/java.html for a discussion
of the relationship between Tcl/Tk and Java) and planning on doing
some work with Safe-Tk.
Java Development Environment for the Mac .
Natural Intelligence is
shipping a Java development environment for the Mac named
Roaster. Cost is $399. 1/16/96
Ara -- Agents for
Remote Actions -- is an application-independent and
language-neutral execution platform for mobile agents written in
general interpreted languages being developed at the University of
Kaiserslautern (Germany). Agents run as portable concurrent processes
within a system core which enforces the security of their actions and
offers access to other agents and to the underlying host system. An
agent can migrate at any point of its execution and continue at the
destination place from the same state. Ara is intended as a general
system platform on top of which specific applications such as
information mining, active documents, DAI etc. can be built.
1/14/96
-- Agents as Avatars? --
Habitats are
graphical online communities populated by avatars. OnLive! Technologies announced
the first commercial habitat which will support real-time voice
communications between multiple people in a "three-dimensional (3-D)
virtual world." They say that "Multimedia PCs equipped with standard
modems and sound cards are all that is necessary to access 3-D voice
chat. Using the OnLive! Traveler, users will navigate through
communities of 3-D environments, represented by their own 3-D
"avatars," or on-screen personas, and talk with groups of other users
in real-time." Traveler is based on the VRML standard. 1/5/96
NetSumm is an experimental WWW page summarizer developed by the
Language Group at British
Telecommunications Laboratories. Netsumm can highlight or abstract the
"most important" sentences of a web page to produce a summary.
1/4/96
PostModern Computing
announced Black Widow
, an object request broker which connects CORBA objects with web
using Java. 1/4/96
-- AGENTS IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY --
-- AGENTS AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING --
-- AGENT RESOURCES ON THE WEB --
-- CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS --
Agents conference list maintained by Wolfram Willuhn. 1/16/96
CIKM-96 --
Fifth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
, November 12 - 16, 1996, Doubletree Hotel, Rockville, Maryland,
USA. 1/15/96
AAAI
Agent Modeling Workshop , Portland, Oregon, August, 1996. Deadline
for submissions is March 18, 1996. 1/15/96
1st National Symposium on Parallel and Distributed AI, 25-27 July
1996, Hyderabad , India 1/15/96
Nagendra Prasad is maintaining a page on Learning in
Multiagent Systems 1/14/96
IEEE WET ICE
'96 -- "Collaborating on the Internet: The World-Wide Web and
Beyond", June 19-21, 1996, Stanford University. The Fifth
Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative
Enterprises (WET ICE '96) will consist of a series of parallel
workshops, each with paper presentations and working group
discussions. The workshops will focus on infrastructural issues for
collaboration in diverse application domains and will include: Web
Infrastructure for Collaborative Applications, Project Coordination,
Electronic Notebooks, Enterprise Security, Shared Design and
Prototyping Environments, Distance Learning, and Requirements
Engineering. 1/14/96
a
Workshop on Intelligent Agents for Telecoms Applications
(IATA'96) will be held as part of the 12th European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) (August 12-16, 1996, Budapest, Hungary)
1/14/96
-- NEW PAPERS AVAILABLE --
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