2000-2005

Tambe Tapped for Top AI Award

February 25, 2005

Researcher Will Present New Agent Teamwork Research at Utrecht Conference

The Viterbi School’s Milind Tambe added to a long list of honors by being named the recipient of the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award. The distinction is annually awarded to a researcher who has made exceptional contributions over the preceding five years to the discipline of artificial intelligence “agents,” computer programs that can perform autonomously reacting to complex situations. Tambe is an associate professor in the Viterbi School department of computer science. His specialty is...

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3 Faculty Receive Okawa Awards

November 14, 2003

Three University of Southern California School of Engineering professors were among the eight scholars receiving $10,000 Okawa Foundation awards this year for their enterprising work in information technology and telecommunications.

Those accepting the research awards at a San Francisco awards ceremony held Oct. 23 were Melvin A. Breuer, professor of electrical engineering; Milind Tambe, associate professor of computer science; and Aiichiro Nakano, associate professor of computer science.

Breuer was recognized for his pioneering efforts to introduce a novel concept...

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The Hardest Working Elves in Cyberspace

April 12, 2001

Milind Tambe and members of his research group in the Intelligent Systems Division are using themselves as guinea pigs for a new system of computer software "agents," which they whimsically call Elves.

In coming years, more and more working people may find themselves, as Tambe's team does, in a continuous dialog with similar agents, residing in palmtop computers or cellular phones. Tambe's efforts have already been widely reported on in USA Today, the Associated Press, and numerous other media.
The Elves arrange human meetings by consulting among themselves, without human...

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Already roaming the web bots are heading into a new domain

February 15, 2001

Associate Press News article by Anick Jesdanun

Some believe the cyberspace agents will handle personal tasks for Internet users in addition to gathering data.
Every day at lunchtime, Friday asks Milind Tambe what he craves. A roasted chicken breast sandwich? A tandoori chicken pizza? Answer in hand, Friday dutifully orders the item for pickup or delivery.

Software robots roam the Net, for better and for worse

February 10, 2001

CNN.com News

Some believe the cyberspace agents will handle personal tasks for Internet users in addition to gathering data.
Every day at lunchtime, Friday asks Milind Tambe what he craves. A roasted chicken breast sandwich? A tandoori chicken pizza? Answer in hand, Friday dutifully orders the item for pickup or delivery.

Just have your elves call my elves

October 30, 2000

USA Today News Article by Elizabeth Weise

Marina Del Rey, Calif. - For the sake of science, Milind Tambe has traded his secretary for an elf. True to his name, the elf has caused him no end to mishief.

Just argue it out

January 15, 2000

By Duncan Graham-Rowe

HAL, the infamous killer supercomputer from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, might not have gone mad had it been fitted with a new “conflict resolution” system developed for the American military.

The system, developed at the University of Southern California with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, exploits the benefits of methodical argument to help bickering computer programs resolve their differences and come up with a satisfactory result....

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