Agents should also be able to “do real work” … such as search for, sort and interpret specified information.
Predictor: Berners-Lee, Tim
Prediction, in context:In an article for Computerworld about the December 1995 World Wide Web Consortium conference in Boston, Kim Nash reports on a speech by Web co-creator Tim Berners-Lee in which he sets forth his “wish list” for the Web’s next few years. Nash paraphrases Berners-Lee:”Also key to helping users better understand the Web – and drawing new users to it – are intelligent agents, Berners-Lee said. Agents are chunks of code that can be programmed to perform routine tasks for their masters, such as fetching sports scores and stock quotes from the Internet or other electronic sources. These agents should also be able to ‘do real work,’ he said, such as search for, sort and interpret specified information. ‘We’re on the edge of all this,’ Berners-Lee added. But, he told the audience of Web developers and users, making it real ‘depends on you folks.'”
Biography:Tim Berners-Lee of CERN first released his revolutionary World-Wide Web for initial use in 1991 and with it shared his invention HTML (hypertext mark-up language). He later served as director of W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations whose goal was to find ways to help the Web reach its full potential. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: December 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Intelligent Agents/AI
Name of publication: Computerworld
Title, headline, chapter name: Father of Web asks for far-reaching standards
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?Did=000000008704785&Fmt=3&Deli=1&Mtd=1&Idx=1&Sid=2&RQT=309
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