From: bluefire@well.sf.ca.us (Bob Jacobson)
Subject:  CONF: Agents Conference, MIT, Tuesday, Oct 20: Invitation Only
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 07:04:45 GMT


Crossposted from WELL (192.132.30.2) vr conference


Topic 100:  Dynamic Agents in Virtual Reality
# 79: abbe don (abbe)      Sun, Oct  4, '92  (19:09)      69 lines
 
 That sounds like big fun!

 In other news, I promised to post the schedule for the agents conference
 at MIT. I regret to say that it is by invitation only but it will
 be videotaped and I will post a summary afterwards.  It is scheduled
 for Tuesday, Oct. 20.
 
 9am--Registration
 
 Morning Speakers:
 
 Alan Kay
 Apple Computer
 What is an Object as Agent?
 
 Nicholas Negroponte
 MIT Media Lab
 The Best Interaction is the Lack of it
 
 Michael Dertouzos
 MIT Lab for Comuter Science
 Modern Interfaces for Ancient Humans
 
 Seymour Papert
 MIT Media Lab
 You Cannot Think About thinking
 Unless you Think About Thinking About Something
 
 Pattie Maes
 Learning Interface Agents
 
 LUNCH
 
 Afternoon Speakers
 
 Mark Miller
 Apple Computer
 Intelligent Agents and the Delegation Metaphor:
 An Apple Perspective
 
 Irene Greif
 Lotus
 Agents Working Together
 
 Phil Stenton
 HP Labs (Bristol)
 Sharing Context with Agents
 
 Hirotada Ueda
 Friend 21
 Agency Model as  Human Interface
 Architecture in the Friend 21 Project
 
 Ted Selker
 IBM Tj Watson Research Center
 An Agent and an Advisor:
 Case Studies of How to Give the User Control
 
 Mark Weiser
 Xeroc Parc
 Does Ubiquitous Computing Need Interface Agents
 
 Meyer Billmers
 DEC
 Towards a Personal Information Butler, and Other Fables
 
 Panel Discussion