Long-Term Goals

MultiAgent Dynamics Laboratory

Human cognitive expansion via human-agent and agent-agent cooperation.
Immune systems for computers: security as an emergent property.
The world-wide mind (WWM) where the aggregate knowledge of the world's experts can be queried at any time [When brains meet computer brawn, Cnet news][NSF/DOC report].
Self-organizing micro-robotic swarms that do your bidding.

Yes, this is science fiction.