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UMBC AgentNews v5n24 Tue Jul 18 09:03:41 2000

The past seven (+-2) days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu/).
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"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you.
If you really make them think, they'll hate you."
- D. R. P. Marquis (1878-1937)

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FIPA-OS 1.2 -- Version 1.2 of Nortel's open-sourced FIPA-OS platform
is available. This version includes support for JESS and CLL. (7/18)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/FIPA-OS

AIBO vulnerable to hackers! -- An advisory warns that hackers have
found a way to take over Sony's Aibo robot dog and command it to
attack and perform other annoying canine tricks by infecting it with
malicious code including methods such as PeeOnRug(), ShoeChew() and
KillTheCat(). (7/14)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://agents.umbc.edu/misc/aibo.shtml

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FIPA-Net -- The Intelligent and Interactive System group at Imperial
College as part of its CASBAh (Common Agent Service Brokering
Architecture) project announces an initiative called FIPA-NET to
assist in locating and accessing service providers within a FIPA agent
society. FIPA-NET consists of a publicly accessible Internet
"yellow-page" service for agents, which serves as a "root" to link to
other such "yellow-page" services distributed across the
Internet. (7/18)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://casbah.ee.ic.ac.uk/fipanet/

JELIA 2000 -- 7th European Workshop on Logics in Artificial
Intelligence will be held September 29--October 2, in Malaga, Spain. (7/17)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ctima.uma.es/jelia/

DARPA Ubiquitous Computing program -- BAA 00-45 is a new DARPA program
which will "address issues in providing a new computing environment in
which the users' physical spaces become embedded with computing
functionality, as the present-day computer disappears." It includes
"invisible user interfaces" which use sensory input to identify users'
intent. (7/17)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.darpa.mil/ito/solicitations/pip_00-45.html

Tutorial on Knowledge Markup Techniques -- A tutorial to be presented
at ECAI 2000 in August 2000 by Harold Boley, Stefan Decker and Michael
Sintek. (7/17)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/km/knowmark/

DARPA Ultra*Log -- UltraLog is a new DARPA program aimed at developing
"large-scale multi-agent systems technology" with a goal to enhance
the "security, robustness, and scalability of large-scale, distributed
agent-based systems operating in chaotic wartime environments". (7/17)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.darpa.mil/iso/ultralog/BAA0046PIP.htm

Madoogal -- Madoogali offers a Microsoft agent based virtual assistant
with speech interfaces to message services. (7/14)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.madoogali.com/

Xtier -- X-tier.com is a small business catering to similar companies
with a line of mobile Agents and Agent based systems. (7/14)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.x-tier.com/

DARPA TASK Program -- The DARPA TASK program will focus on analyzing
agent behaviors by exploring both mathematical modeling and empirical
analyses of agent behaviors. In addition, TASK will strive to get
participants to compare agent-creation approaches using these models,
and to perform qualitative and meaningful quantitative comparisons of
agent behaviors with respect to domain and problem features. (7/14)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.multiagent.com/cgi-bin/r?url=http://www.task-program.org/

DARPA DAML program -- This is the public portal for the DARPA Agent
Markup Language (DAML) Program whose goal is to develop a language and
tools to facilitate the concept of the semantic web. (7/14)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.daml.org/

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