UMBC AGENTNEWS NEWSLETTER v5n8            Sun Mar 12 22:14:19 2000
The past seven days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu).      
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That's Mr. Search Engine to You -- Several companies are using the
ultimate in intelligent agent technology (humans) to power their
search and recommendation services. (3/12)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34753,00.html>

Bill Joy on the future of humans and machines -- Sun's Bill Joy has a
provocative article in the latest issue of Wired in which he discusses
the idea that technological changes could cause "something like
extinction" of human kind within the next two generations. (3/12)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-03/12/215l-031200-idx.html>
 
Supermarkets Check You Out -- IBM is prototyping a technology that
allows supermarkets to track shoppers by their thermal signature as
they wander through the store, discovering facts about their
purchasing behavior. (3/8)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.beyond2000.com/news/story_475.html>


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Discovery of Design Methodologies for the Integration of
Multi-disciplinary Design Problems -- A PhD dissertation by Cirrus
Shakeri at the Mechanical Engineering department of WPI on the use of
multi-agent systems in engineering design (Nov 98). (3/12)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-101399-155624/>

SAINT-2001 -- The 2001 Symposium on Applications and the Internet
(SAINT-2001), an Diego, California, USA, January 8-12, 2001, paper
deadline May 1, 2000. (3/12)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://computer.org/tab/TCI/SAINT/>
 
Network Intelligence: Internet-Based Manufacturing (VV13) -- A
workshop held in conjunction with SPIE PHOTONICS EAST 2000, November
5-8, 2000, Boston MA. (3/9)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pe00/confs/VV13.html>

Talking Heads - This website provides an overview of the rapidly
growing international effort to create talking heads (physiological/
computational/cognitive models of audio-visual speech), the historical
antecedents of this effort, and related work. (3/4)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.haskins.yale.edu/haskins/HEADS/contents.html>

In the know -- Knowledge Management - David Pringle investigates the
true potential of knowledge management tools in this article from
ComputerBusinessReview. (3/4)
<http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.computerbusinessreview.com/issue/309e_2ae.html>

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