What is an agent?

Ray Johnson (rjohnson)
Tue, 29 Mar 94 10:07:30 PST

Well since this mailing list was announced last week more than twenty
of you have joined the mailing list. Not too bad...

To get things going I thought I would ask a question that many of you
have an opinion on: What is an Agent?

This question is meant to be very broad and includes such questions as:
What is neccessary vs. sufficient to be an agent?
What is NOT an agent?
What is different between agents and other software?
Can you have agency without having agents?
Do you need to have a definition of agents if you still get funding. :)
<Insert you own questions here>

Please step up and be heard! What do you think an agent is?

Ray

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