Palo Alto meeting results

FIPA	98/01/30
FOUNDATION FOR INTELLIGENT PHYSICAL AGENTS	Palo Alto
Source: L. Chiariglione	palo_alto_results

Results of Palo Alto meeting

1. Hiroki Suguri (Comtec) has been elected as a new Director.

2. The FIPA Academy has been established.

3. A new organisation of Technical Committees has been decided

4. The structure of specifications to be produced in 1998 has been agreed.

5. FIPA's Fourth Call for Proposals has been approved. The call requests specific technologies to be used in the specifications planned for development in 1998. Registrations of intentions to submit one or more proposals have to be received by 03 April 1998 and submissions have to be received in electronic form (word or html format, the latter preferred) by 10 April 1998. Submissions will be posted on the FIPA home page for access by members only.

6. The FIPA workplan has been approved

Work items	Action	Year	Month	Days	Place
2^nd	Proposals received Baseline draft spec produced Call for Proposals issued	1998	Jan	26-30	Palo Alto
1^st 2^nd	FIPA 97 Field Trials ver. 1.1 FIPA 98 ver. 0.1	1998	Apr	20-24	Osaka
1^st 2^nd	FIPA 97 Field Trials ver. 1.2 FIPA 98 ver. 0.2	1998	Jul	13-17	Dublin
1^st 2^nd3^rd	FIPA 97 ver. 2.0 published FIPA 98 ver. 1.0 produced Call for Proposals issued	1998	Oct		America

7. The next meeting will be held in Osaka, Japan on 20-24 April 1998 and will be hosted by Matsushita.