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Foil 24 Agents Technology & Operation

From Broad Overview of Agents and Their Motivation Event: HPDC95 Tutorial Pentagon City -- August 1 1995. by Vasu Polisetty * See also color IMAGE

Other Players & Projects
Lockheed AI Center - SHADE is working to define and prototype technology for agent-based collaborative engineering
MIT AI Lab - Sodabot aims at creating agents whose primitives are designed around human-level descriptions of agent activity
University of Massachusetts - researching an ARPA funded project whose goal is the development of a generic framework for Distributed, Planning, Scheduling, and Resource Allocation (DPSRA)
MIT Media Lab - WEBHOUND recommends URLs of user's interest
Oracle in Motion - a new technology utilizing a client-agent-server architecture, enables Microsoft Windows-based laptops to quickly and easily access critical corporate information via wireless networks, LANs and phone lines
Anderson Consulting - CStar developed BargainFinder Agent that compares shops among Internet stores to find the best price for a compact disc.
Apple recently introduced Apple Guide. Apple Guide scripts interact with the Mac OS using AppleScript and AppleEvents that allow outside programs that allow to manipulate the face that Mac presents to the world. Apple Guide is a good glimpse the effects that agents can have on the computers we use



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