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Agent oriented-programming http://robotics.stanford.edu/~shoham/www%20papers/AgentOrientedProgrammingAIJ.pdf http://robotics.stanford.edu/~shoham/www%20papers/A

Agent oriented-programming http://robotics.stanford.edu/~shoham/www%20papers/AgentOrientedProgrammingAIJ.pdf http://robotics.stanford.edu/~shoham/www%20papers/AgentOrien... [PDF]

romaniv 10y ago
Alan Kay talking about agent-oriented computing in 1990: https://youtu.be/275FQ9koAw8?t=7647 https://youtu.be/275FQ9koAw8?t=7647 Very interesting view, especially considering how long ago that was and how relevant they still are.
- protomyth 10y ago
  That's pretty good, hadn't seen that clip. I think the pervasive networking mentioned has enabled the paradigm but wasn't quite the driver Kay thought it would be. RPCs (of some type) over HTTP have won over having mobile code. On the other hand, I still see a big upside in using agents for their deployment and component (in the divisible whole sense) organization of software.
- vram22 10y ago
  Some time after Java first came out, there was a product called Voyager from a Java products company called Objectspace [1]. Voyager was a product for creating and using mobile agents. I had downloaded the trial and tried it out a bit. It was quite cool. IIRC, Graham Glass, who was involved in ObjectSpace, was also the creator of Electric XML, an XML library, and was later CTO of WebObjects. Recently he had/has been working on EDU 2.0 (EDU20.org), an e-learning product company. [1] They were also the creators of JGL, the Java Generics Library, which was like a Java version of the C++ STL, and done before Java got generics natively.
nickpsecurity 10y ago
Telescript and Obliq come to mind.
- protomyth 10y ago
  The Telescript reference I understand since that was General Magic's goal with Magic Cap, but I'm not sure I see how Obliq is an agent oriented programming language. It seems to be a object oriented one.
  - nickpsecurity 10y ago
    I could be misremembering but thought it was a distributed one. The book that I learned agent-oriented systens from gave it as example platform that might support mobile agents. Safe Tcl and Java applets being the other two it discussed.

Agent oriented-programming http://robotics.stanford.edu/~shoham/www%20papers/AgentOrientedProgrammingAIJ.pdf http://robotics.stanford.edu/~shoham/www%20papers/AgentOrien... [PDF]

romaniv 10y ago

Alan Kay talking about agent-oriented computing in 1990: https://youtu.be/275FQ9koAw8?t=7647 https://youtu.be/275FQ9koAw8?t=7647 Very interesting view, especially considering how long ago that was and how relevant they still are.

protomyth 10y ago
That's pretty good, hadn't seen that clip. I think the pervasive networking mentioned has enabled the paradigm but wasn't quite the driver Kay thought it would be. RPCs (of some type) over HTTP have won over having mobile code. On the other hand, I still see a big upside in using agents for their deployment and component (in the divisible whole sense) organization of software.
vram22 10y ago
Some time after Java first came out, there was a product called Voyager from a Java products company called Objectspace [1]. Voyager was a product for creating and using mobile agents. I had downloaded the trial and tried it out a bit. It was quite cool. IIRC, Graham Glass, who was involved in ObjectSpace, was also the creator of Electric XML, an XML library, and was later CTO of WebObjects. Recently he had/has been working on EDU 2.0 (EDU20.org), an e-learning product company. [1] They were also the creators of JGL, the Java Generics Library, which was like a Java version of the C++ STL, and done before Java got generics natively.

nickpsecurity 10y ago

Telescript and Obliq come to mind.

protomyth 10y ago
The Telescript reference I understand since that was General Magic's goal with Magic Cap, but I'm not sure I see how Obliq is an agent oriented programming language. It seems to be a object oriented one.
- nickpsecurity 10y ago
  I could be misremembering but thought it was a distributed one. The book that I learned agent-oriented systens from gave it as example platform that might support mobile agents. Safe Tcl and Java applets being the other two it discussed.