Agents '99 invited speakers with times, titles and biographies — Michael Mauldin, Wolfgang Wahlster, Brian C. Williams, Bill Joy, Daniel T. Ling, Graham Glass.
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AGENTS'99 Invited Speakers
Agents'99 Invited Speakers
The organisers of Agents'99 are excited to announce that the conference
features an exceptional array of invited speakers, representing the world's
leading industrial and academic players in the agents arena, providing
first-hand insights into their current work and painting their picture
of the future of agent technology.
The Invited Speakers at Agents'99 are:
Time
Speaker
Title
Monday
May 3, 1999
09:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Michael Mauldin
Virtual Personalities Inc. & Lycos, Inc.
VERBOTS: Putting a face on natural language
Monday
May 3, 1999
17:45 - 18:45
Wolfgang Wahlster
German Artificial Intelligence Research Center Ltd. (DFKI)
Personalized Interface Agents for Virtual Webpages
Tuesday
May 4, 1999
08:30 - 09:30 a.m.
Brian Williams
M.I.T.
Model-based Autonomous Systems in Deep Space
Tuesday
May 4, 1999
approx. 19:00
Bill Joy
Sun Microsystems
Java and JINI: Toward a Network of Objects and Agents
Wednesday
May 5, 1999
09:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Daniel T. Ling
Microsoft Research
Agents: Brains, Faces and Bodies
Wednesday
May 5, 1999
15:30 - 17:00
Graham Glass
ObjectSpace
Agents and Internet Component Technology
Please click on the hyperlinks to see a short bio of the respective
speaker.
Graham Glass
Chairman, Chief Technology Officer, and Co-Founder
ObjectSpace
Mr. Glass is the principal architect of the company's acclaimed
solutions including the ObjectSpace Voyager distributed computing
platform, JGL - The Generic Collection Library for Java, and C++
Component Series. Most recently, Mr. Glass spearheaded development of
Voyager Professional Edition and its many breakthroughs for ease of
use, performance and advanced capabilities. Two books authored by
Mr. Glass - UNIX for Programmers and Users: A Complete Guide and The
STL Primer - are used by many universities including Stanford and the
University of New York. He also initiated the curriculum for object
technology at the University of Texas at Dallas. Mr. Glass graduated
with honors from the University of Southampton, England, where he
received the British Computer Society award for the most distinguished
undergraduate student. He graduated magna cum laude from the
University of Texas at Dallas earning a master's degree in Computer
Science. Mr. Glass is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science
at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Bill
Joy
Chief Scientist and Corporate Executive Officer
Sun Microsystems
Bill Joy is a co-founder, the Chief Scientist at Sun Microsystems and
a part of Sun's Executive Committee. During the last two years he has led
design investigations for the architecture of UltraSparc IV, driven the
business and technical strategy for Java, co-designed the picoJava, microJava
and the ultraJava processor architectures, co-authored the specification
for the Java Programming Language, and co-designed the lexical scoping
and reflection APIs for Java version 1.1. His most recent work is on Jini
technology for networking computer devices using Java.
He is currently researching new architectures for human-computer interaction,
involving new kinds of interfaces, system and application software architectures
and ways of storing information.
Bill Joy joined Sun from U.C. Berkeley where he was the author of Berkeley
UNIX (BSD). Since joining Sun, he has led Sun's technical strategy, designing
Sun's NFS Network File System and the SPARC Architecture. In 1991 he did
the basic pipeline design of Ultrasparc-I and its multimedia processing
features.
Bill was appointed by President Clinton as Co-Chairman of the Presidential
Information Technology Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee is providing
guidance and advice on all areas of high-performance computing, communications
and information technologies to accelerate development and adoption of
information technologies that will be vital for American prosperity in
the twenty-first century.
Joy holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan
and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley.
He holds a Lifetime Achievement Award from the USENIX Association and the
Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.
Daniel T. Ling
Director of Research
Microsoft
Daniel Ling is Director of Research at Microsoft, responsible for the
Redmond laboratory. Microsoft Research is dedicated to pursuing long term
research into a wide range of topics in computer science that we believe
will transform computing over the next decade. The laboratory has
established a tradition of working closely with the product and service
groups at Microsoft while also participating actively in the worldwide
research community. Dan joined Microsoft in early 1992 as one of the
founders of the laboratory.
Previously, Dan was a senior manager at the IBM T. J. Watson Research
Center. He initially worked on special purpose VLSI chips for displays and
was a co-inventor of the video-RAM dynamic memory. Later he managed a
number of departments working in the areas of advanced microsystems based on
370 and RISC architectures, as well as work on virtual worlds technology,
user interfaces, and data visualization. One of the microsystems projects
led to the IBM RS/6000 workstations.
Dan holds a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
University.
Agents: Brains, Faces and Bodies
Software entities that can act autonomously in a dynamic environment, learn,
react and communicate with other agents will dramatically simplify many
tasks for users. Agents are already finding their way into the user
interface, providing context sensitive help, playing roles in computer games
and entertainment, negotiating e-commerce, and used to simplify search and
information discovery. I will describe some of our work in creating
different aspects of agents, including their brains (the ability to learn
and adapt), and their embodiment (faces and bodies). I also will discuss a
fundamental change in metaphor that agents will bring to computers.
Traditionally computers have been tools and their interface has been
designed and evaluated based on that characterization. Agents change the
computer from a tool to an assistant. I believe the implications of this
are profound and not yet well understood.
Michael
Mauldin
Chief Scientist
Lycos, Inc.
Managing Director
Virtual Personalities, Inc.
Dr. Michael L. Mauldin is adjunct research computer scientist at the
Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He received
his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon in 1989, and his M.S.
in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon in 1983. He received his B.A.
in Mathematical Science and Computer Science from Rice University in 1981.
He has authored 2 books, 10 refereed papers, and several technical reports
on natural language, autonomous information agents, information retrieval
and expert systems.
Dr. Mauldin is Managing Director of Virtual Personalities, Inc., a Beverly
Hills company developing photo-realistic talking heads for consumer computer
interaction. He was also the founder of Lycos, Inc., the Internet search
engine, a public company with offices in Boston, New York, and Pittsburgh.
He was a principal investigator on the Informedia Digital Video Library
project (one of the NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Libraries awardees), and was
a co-principal investigator on ARPA's TIPSTER data extraction project.
His Internet agent ``Julia'' has been a finalist in all four Loebner
Prize competitions, a restricted form of the Turing test.
Wolfgang
Wahlster
Director
German Artificial Intelligence Research Center Ltd. (DFKI GmbH)
Wolfgang Wahlster is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the
Department of Computer Science at the University of Saarbruecken,
Germany and the Director of the German Research Center for Artificial
Intelligence (DFKI). He received his diploma and doctoral degree in
computer science and computational linguistics from the University of
Hamburg. Since 1975 he has been working in the field as a principal
investigator in various intelligent user interface projects, including
HAM-ANS, XTRA, VITRA, PHI, RAP and WIP, PPP and AiA. He has published
more than 150 technical papers on man-machine communication.
His current research includes intelligent multimodal interfaces,
user modeling, natural language scene description, personalized
interface agents, speech translation and auto-adaptive web
presentations. Since 1993 he is the Scientific Director of the
VERBMOBIL project on spontaneous speech translation. Prof. Wahlster
is on the editorial boards of various international journals and book
series such as Artificial Intelligence, Applied Artificial
Intelligence, User Modeling and User-adapted Interaction. He is an
AAAI Fellow and a recipient of the Fritz Winter Award, one of the most
prestigious awards for engineering sciences in Germany, for his
research on cooperative user interfaces. In 1995 he received the ITEA
(Information Technology European Award, the highest recognition in
European Computer Science) of the European Academies of Engineering
(Euro-Case) for his work on WIP, a plan-based multimodal presentation
system. In 1998 he has been awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa
by the Institute of Technology at Linkoeping University, Sweden.
He serves as a Trustee of IJCAII and a member of the Executive
Board of the AI section of the German Informatics Association (GI).
Prof. Wahlster was the Conference Chair for IJCAI-93 in Chambery, the
Chair of the Board of Trustees of IJCAII from 1991 - 1993, the ECAI-96
Programme Chair and the Programme Co-Chair of ACL/EACL-97.
He is currently the Chair of ECCAI, the European Coordinating
Committee for Artificial Intelligence and the Vice-President of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). He is the Co-Editor
of the Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces.
Brian
Williams
Associate Professor
M.I.T.
Brian C. Williams is an associate professor at MIT within the space
systems and artificial intelligence laboratories. From 1995 to 1999 he
formed the Autonomous System's Group at the NASA Ames Research Center,
where he lead the development of highly deductive, model-based autonomous
systems applied to spacecraft and rovers. Most notable is the remote agent
autonomous control system, to be demonstrated on the Deep Space One space
probe in May of 1999. From 1989 to 1994 Williams was at Xerox PARC, where
he co-developed the GDE and Sherlock model-based diagnosis systems. He
received his bachelor's in Electrical Engineering at MIT, continuing on
to receive a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science in the areas of qualitative
reasoning and automated invention.
Williams received a AAAI best paper award in 1988 for his work on
hybrid qualitative/quantitative algebras, and jointly with Pandu Nayak
in 1997 for their work on the Incremental Truth Maintenance System. He
was guest editor for Artificial Intelligence in 1992, Chair for the
AAAI Tutorial Forum in 1996 and 97 and is currently on the editorial
boards of the journal of artificial intelligence research and AI
Press. His research focuses on the creation of long-lived autonomous
systems through model-based programming methods and highly deductive,
reactive control kernels.
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