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Please go to the new AgentSheets® Web Site

We keep this old web site still available since it contains some "history" pieces that could be interesting to some of you.

The AgentSheets environment is an agent-based Web authoring tool enabling a wide range of end users, ranging from children to professionals, to create their own SimCity^TM-like interactive simulations, domain-oriented visual programming languages, knowbots, cellular automata, and games. At the the blink of an eye these simulations can be compiled by the Ristretto compiler directly into Java applets that can be embedded into web pages.

Visual AgenTalk language is a new tactile programming approach that allows you to compose, comprehend and share complex agents through the World Wide Web.

News Flash!

4/16/98, Italian AgentSheets environment
4/5/98, The AgentSheets Genetic Evolutionary System is available
1/14/98, The Fraunhofer Institute in Germany is the official demo and support center for the AgentSheets environment in Europe.
1/12/98, New on-line and printable documentation

Tres Amigos: Alexander Repenning, Jim Ambach and Corrina Perrone are the main people behind the AgentSheets environment and these web pages.

In the context of the

Center of LifeLong Learning and Design

this work has been supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency under Cooperative Agreement Number CDA-940860, the National Science Foundation under grant number RED925-3425, and

Apple Computer Inc

. Much thanks to the

MIT Media Lab

for supporting the LEGOsheets project.

Ristretto is trademarked by AgentSheets Inc., Java is trademarked by Sun Microsystems Inc., SimCity is trademarked by MAXIS

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Detailed information:

Distribution (frame-based): Downloadable versions of the AgentSheets environment, the Visual AgenTalk language, a number of projects created with the AgentSheets environment, extensions, documentation, and some Apple system software goodies.
Behavior Exchange: An agent market place. Give and take agents with interesting behaviors. If you find some exciting agent its use is just one drag and drop away. Also find language packs that you can download and use in your application.
Programming Above C Level: A philosophical view of programming and discussion of new programming approaches including object-oriented programming, graphical rewrite rules, tactile programming, and behavior processing.
LEGOsheets is an award winning programming, simulation and manipulation environment for the programmable brick created at the MIT Media Lab.
SimBrick is the virtual version of the LEGOsheets environment in which completely simulated vehicles move on photographed roads. The vehicles sensors can read and interpret via Visual AgenTalk programs the actual bitmap.
WebQuest connects interactive simulation games with the Word Wide Web. WebQuest was awarded in Paris at WWW5 "Best Innovative Application of the WWW for Education 1996."
Child's Play: The end-user programming, and visual programming in education workshop featuring the Visual Languages Benchmarks.
Visual AgenTalk: The AgentSheets end-user programming environment. Visual AgenTalk is a tactile programming environment.
uAgentSheets: The AgentSheets Java player. Develop your project with the powerful Visual AgenTalk tactile programming environment using the AgentSheets Developer version on the Mac and then, at the press of a single button, generate a cross-platform Java applet.
The Remote Explorium: The precursor to our Behavior Exchange. Find complete simulations and launch them from the Web page with a single click.
Example Applications: This shows some of the over 100 project that have been created in the past including LEGOsheets - a programming, simulation and manipulation environment for the MIT Media Lab programmable brick -, WebQuest, a game design environment for kids allowing them to learn by authoring and playing interactive Web-based simulations, AgentBuilder - a high-level agent programming environment created by the University of Washington.

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