UMBC AgentNews v5n34                           Thu Dec 21 23:04:18 2000
The past seven days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu/).
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20th FIPA meeting 1/29-2/2 Phoenix -- The 20th meeting of the FIPA
software agents standards group will be held in Phoenix, USA from 29
January to 2 February, 2001.  The quarterly FIPA meetings are free and
open to FIPA members and interested non-members who are willing to
actively contribute to the FIPA process.  More information on how to
participate in FIPA can be found at http://fipa.org/. (12/11)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.fipa.org/activities/nextmeeting.html

Look, Up in the Sky: Robofly -- Wired News article on insect sized
robots. (12/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.wirednews.com/news/technology/0,1282,40750,00.html
 
Simple Minds -- Simple Minds is a FEED article in which author Jenny
Offill "looks at the projected learning curve for machines, builds her
own bots, and takes a ride to the bleeding edge of Artificial
Stupidity." (12/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1524

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ATAL'01: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages -- The Eighth
International Workshop on AGENT THEORIES, ARCHITECTURES, AND LANGUAGES
(ATAL-2001) will be held in Seattle, August 1-3, 2001, Immediately
before IJCAI-2001) (12/20)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.atal.org/

Automated Service Negotiation Between Autonomous Computational Agents
-- P. Faratin (2000): Automated Service Negotiation Between Autonomous
Computational Agents Ph.D. Dissertation. University of London, Queen
Mary College, Department of Electronic Engineering. 255 pages. (12/19)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=ftp://ftp.elec.qmw.ac.uk/pub/isag/distributed-ai/publications/peyman-thesis.pdf

XML2000 talk on "The Semantic Web" by TBL -- A 50 minute realAudio
recording from XML2000 has W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee presenting his
vision for the future of the web - a "self-navigable space" of
self-described, "machine-understandable" fragments of information in
which documents convey meaning through XML markup. (12/19)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_play_stream.html?stream_id=459

SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium -- The Sixth SIGART/AAAI Doctoral
Consortium will be held August 5-6 at IJCAI-01 in Seattle Washington.
The Doctoral Consortium (DC) provides an opportunity for a group of
Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their research interests and
career objectives with a panel of established researchers in
Artificial Intelligence. (12/17)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://sigart.ijcai-01.org/

MA 2001 -- MA 2001, the 5th International Conference on Mobile Agents,
will be held December 2-4 2001 in Atlanta Georgia. (12/17)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/MA2001/

Foundations of Models for Information Integration -- This workshop
will be held in Viterbo (near Rome), Italy , 16-18 September, 2001
immediately after VLDB-2001. (12/15)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/img/FMII-2001/

Guess The Dictator -- Version 2.0 of Guess the Dictator is an expert
system that attempts to identify a political dictator or television
sitcom character from answers to questions posed to you. (12/21)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://208.177.130.81/dictator/dictator.pl

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