Links to Agent-Oriented Pages

• Some languages for agent-oriented programming

  Java

  by Sun Microsystems

  Tcl/Tk

  by John Ousterhout, Sun Microsystems

  Python

  by Guido Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam

  Perl

  by Larry Wall

  REXX

  by Mike Cowlishaw

  Visual Basic

  by Microsoft

  Telescript

  by General Magic (which might be in trouble)

• Some groups working on agents

  The Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University

  CSLI have several groups working on agents, including:

  Agent-Oriented Programming

  headed by Yoav Shoham who also leads the

  Nobotics Group

  working on adaptive information retrieval and machine learning, among other things. Moreover, Barbara Hayes-Roth leads a project at the Interface Lab called

  AIbots

  that deals with autonomous robots. John Perry heads a project at the Cognitive Science Lab at CSLI called

  Rational Agency: Information and Action

  while Michael Bratman heads

  Rational Agency: Planning and Intention

  The DAI Research Unit at the Department of Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London)

  is headed by Nick Jennings, and it has several research projects on agent-related topics, including ARCHON (ARchitecture for Cooperative Heterogeneous ON-line systems); Europe's largest ever project in the area of Distributed Artificial Intelligence

  The MAGMA group

  is lead by Yves Demazeau at LIFIA, Grenoble

  TheDIS Lab

  is headed by Victor Lesser

  The Autonomous Agents Group

  at MIT Media Lab is headed by Pattie Maes, who also works at Agents, Inc. who made firefly, a kind of digital assistant for music recommendation, of which I am a member (under pseudonym, so don't even try :) )

• Some meetings related to agents

  ICMAS

  The second ICMAS will be held in Kyoto, Japan, in December

  MAAMAW

  This link is to MAAMAW'96 that took place in Eindhoven in January, I will be co-chairing MAAMAW'97 with Walter van de Welde in Ronneby, Sweden; expect a MAAMAW'97-page by early summer

  IJCAI

  will have several workshops and themes related to agents in 1997, one of which is Robocup, a very exciting invitation to do some good agent-oriented programming and dealing with the problem (sic) of how to get robots interested (even more sic) in playing soccer. At ECAI-96, there will be a workshop called

  Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages,

  organised in 1996 by Joerg P. Mueller, Michael Wooldridge, and Nick Jennings

• Good agent-oriented link pages

  Intelligent Software Agents page

  By Sverker Janson at SICS (Excellent, start here!)

  Agent links, people, and papers pages, as well as a news service

  By Tim Finin at University of Maryland

  Agent-Related Bibliography Database

  By Michael Wooldridge at Manchester Metropolitan University

  Intelligent Software Agents Repository

  By Ralph Becket at University of Cambridge Computer Lab