CS8011C: Software Agents Seminar
Spring 1997

Mondays (Spring 1997 Quarter): 2pm-3pm, GVU Conference Room

Participants

• Don Allison
• Gary Boone
• D. Michael Davila
• Jason Ellis
• Irfan Essa
• Anthony G. Francis, Jr.
• William David Haas
• Abelardo Lopez-Lagunas
• Scott McCrickard
• Sunil Mishra
• Bill Murdock
• F. S. Nooruddin
• Ashwin Ram
• Marcia Riley
• Todd Rose
• John Stasko
• Ashley Taylor
• and many others ......

Readings:

1. Charles Rich and Candace L. Sidner, "Collagen: When Agents Collaborate with People"
2. Blumberg (1996) "Do we need autonomous animated characters?"
3. Reilly (1997) "A methodology for building believable social agents."
4. Cassel et al. (1994) "Animated conversation"
5. and many others ....

Schedule

April 7, 1997: Introductions

April 14, 1997:

April 21, 1997:

April 28, 1997:

May 5, 1997:

May 12, 1997: Design an agent "STRAWMAN PROPOSAL"

May 19, 1997:

May 26, 1997: Beach/Golf Day.

June 2, 1997: Last Class, Discuss "Agent Designs"

Last Modified by Irfan Essa at 11am 6/2/97