- ...communication.
- We don't consider
even sophisticated interaction with disk drives and printers to be
communication.
- ...etc.
- One rather extreme and slightly dismaying
example of an on-line assistant might be the H.A.L. 9000 in 2001: A
Space Odyssey.
- ...command.
- CPlex actually
requires a very expensive machine-specific license. However, we
note (without advocating) that by setting up a BSA on the machine on
which CPlex has been installed, it is trivial to allow anyone,
anywhere, to access CPlex via a simple SodaBot application agent.
- ...Group.
- I worked at Bell
Labs from the the middle of May through the first week of September
during 1993.
- ...summer.
- Steven Ketchpel actually
implemented an earlier, complete version of the VisitorBot on top of
a simple mail-reading agent developed by Henry Kautz.
- ...agents)
- I wrote
several other software agents at Bell Labs over the summer. Most
notable is the
Bot which allowed me to edit my SM thesis
proposal at Bell Labs and process it remotely at MIT. It notified
me of any errors encountered during text processing at MIT,
displayed the final results on my Bell Labs' workstation, etc.