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UCLA short course on "Intelligent Software Agents"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Goodin, Bill)
Fri Aug 14 20:10:08 1998
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:05:05 -0500
From: "Goodin, Bill" <bgoodin@unex.ucla.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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> On November 11-13, 1998, UCLA Extension will present the short course,
> "Intelligent Software Agents", on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles.
>
> The instructors are Cindy Mason, PhD, Research Scientist, UC Berkeley;
>
> Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, PhD, Visiting Associate Professor, University of
West Florida; and Henry Lieberman, PhD, Research Scientist, MIT Media
> Laboratory.
>
> Each participant receives the text, "Software Agents", by Jeffrey M.
> Bradshaw (AAAI/MIT Press, 1997).
>
Agents are at the center of software design for the 21st century,
providing
both the technology and the perspective for constructing and maintaining
complex information systems. This course explores basic software
constructs, designs, and tools for engineering and organizing software
agent processes. Basic concepts include the relation between objects
and agents, agent communication and coordination, agent architectures,
agent intelligence, agent programming languages and learning. These are
examined in terms of industrial applications and prototypes in which
they
have been applied and developed. The course material is divided into two
main sections: technologies for agent-agent software processes (agents
organized as teams, networks and technologies for agent-human software
processes); and agents that facilitate human-machine interactions. The
course also looks at a variety of advanced concepts in software agents
such as lifelike characters, multi-modal interfaces, and global business
enterprises. No programming is involved in the course, although
programming examples and languages are presented.
> UCLA Extension has presented this highly successful short course
> since 1996.
>
> The course fee is $1495, which includes course materials and the
> course
> text. The course materials are for participants only, and are not for
> sale.
>
> For additional information and a complete course description, please
> contact Marcus Hennessy at:
>
> (310) 825-1047
> (310) 206-2815 fax
> mhenness@unex.ucla.edu
> http://www.unex.ucla.edu/shortcourses/
>
> This course may also be presented on-site at company locations.
