September 27-28, 1996
Dartmouth College
Hanover NH
Final Schedule
Each session had a discussion leader who gave a 20 minute presentation
of the topic and introduce the issues. Following this presentation
there was a 40-55 minute discussion.
Friday evening
- 8:00-9:00 pm Talk, 9:00-10:00 pm Reception
- Keynote speaker: Marvin Minsky (MIT)
Abstract: 1996 marks the 40th anniversary of the Dartmouth
summer meeting of 1956 that coined the term Artificial
Intelligence and set much of the research agenda in AI over
the past 40 years. Professor Minsky will review the
past 40 years and look forward to the next 40 years of
AI research.
Saturday
- 8:00-9:00 am Continental breakfast
- (provided)
- 9:00-10:00 am
Session 1: Why transportable agents?
What are the applications?
- Bob Gray (Dartmouth)
- 10:15-11:15 am Session 2:Planning and Scheduling
- Kris Hammond (U Chicago)
- 11:30-12:30 pm Session 3: Fault Tolerance
- The Tacoma folks (Dag Johansen, Fred Schneider, Robbert van Renesse)
- 12:30-1:30 pm Lunch buffet
- (provided)
- 1:30-2:30 pm Session 4: Security
- Robert Morris, Sr. (consultant)
- 2:45-3:45 pm Session 5: Navigation
- James White (Telescript)
- 4:00-5:15 pm Session 6: Demos and Work in Progress
- 15 minutes each:
- 5:15-7:00 pm Dinner
- (on your own)
- 7:00-10:00 pm Reception, with
8:00-9:00 pm Session 7:
Panel discussion: When an agent gets here, what can it do?
- Moderator: Bob Sproull (Sun Labs)
- Panelists: Fred Schneider (fbs@cs.cornell.edu),
Jim White (jim_white@genmagic.com),
Timothy Finin (finin@cs.umbc.edu), Ray Johnson (rjohnson@eng.sun.com),
Daniela Rus (rus@cs.dartmouth.edu)
Sunday
- 9:00-12:00 am Open demo session
- For anyone who was still around, and wanted to gather
in Sudikoff (the computer-science building), to see and show demos of
their software.
David Kotz --
Last modified: Sun Sep 29 11:58:47 1996