Monthly Archives: December 2004

Imagine that you are lucky enough to find some free time in your schedule, and so you decide to take a trip. What do you do? If you’re like most people, you contact a travel agent to arrange the details. … Continue reading →

New York-based ActiveBuddy has won a crucial patent covering instant messaging bot-making technology, but hobbyists and amateur developers aren’t buying the company’s claim that it invented the technology. Sounds “acacia”-esque. . .

“The advent of software agents gave rise to much discussion of just what such an agent is, and of how they differ from programs in general. Here we propose a formal definition of an autonomous agent which clearly distinguishes a … Continue reading →

Early Bot

” Abstract: In this paper, we argue that moves to reconfigure the education of adults as a dimension of lifelong learning signify a postmodern condition of education. In particular, we suggest that lifelong learning contributes to performativity and a loss … Continue reading →

“Abstract. The availability of the emote modality, combined with social responses to object and room-persistence in MUDs, creates a more structured and flexible communication environment than is found in other single modality chat programs. The emote command is used for … Continue reading →

…”I consider what is likely to happen when the JISC’s vision as promulgated in the various documents and calls supporting both the JISC E-Learning Programme and the JISC Information Environment meets the reality of e-learning infrastructures as already being built … Continue reading →

The emergence of the Internet has radically changed the way in which we learn, teach and train. This paper proposes an integrated and extensible architecture for agent-based distance learning. The architecture provides component-based extensibility, allowing emerging technologies to be plugged-in, … Continue reading →