Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies

AI Magazine 

The Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises was held from 17-19 April 1994 in Morgantown, West Virginia, hosted by the Concurrent Engineering Research Center at West Virginia University. This report summarizes this year's workshop and outlines the philosophy behind this annual event. This report summarizes this year's workshop and outlines the philosophy behind this annual event. The WET ICE workshop, now in its third year, has become a fixture of the collaborative computing scene. A more specialized event than the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work gathering, which takes in everyone from anthropologists to futurists, this workshop focuses on hardware and software that enables agents of all kinds to interact in a variety of ways to accomplish some task--quickly, correctly, and easily.