Agent Technologies and Applications at Nokia Research Center

Dr. Mark R. Adler
Nokia Research Center, Burlington, MA

December 8, 2000
11 a.m.
Fuller Labs 320

Abstract

In the software business, there is a clear trend towards networked and particularly Internet-enabled applications. Today's web browsing will give way to qualitatively more interactive services, and most information systems will become accessible through the World Wide. The development of technologies for intelligent agents will give rise to new types of software and services which will allow users to exploit the massive volume and flow of information on the World Wide Web, and the trend is to do this without wires.

The Agent Technology Group in Burlington, Massachusetts is part of Nokia Research Center's Software Technology Laboratory. The group studies software agents, artificial intelligence, and related technologies and fields such as ad hoc networking, ubiquitous computing, WWW technologies and standards.

What is an agent? Agents are pieces of software that are capable of autonomous behavior as well as capable of observing their environment and reacting to external stimuli. Agents may also be mobile (they may migrate from one CPU to another).

Our broad goal is to study enabling technologies for agents, to build agent- based applications, and to disseminate information about agents and related technologies to Nokia's business units (these technologies include artificial intelligence, distributed object systems, networking, e-commerce, and security) as well as collaborate with academia.

Our research is roughly divided into three categories: Agents (focus on intelligent multi-agent systems) and Artificial Intelligence; Ubiquitous Computing (enabling technologies such as ad-hoc networks and JINI); and World Wide Web Technologies with a focus on our cooperation with W3C).

In this talk, I will describe the group's current projects and research interests and the impact this work may have on the world in the future.

Host

Professor Dave Brown

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