What Is an Agent, Really? A Cross-Disciplinary View
In the first post, I suggested that we might benefit from a clearer way to think about AI agents — something I called agentics. Before we can talk about a science of agents, though, we need to confront an awkward fact: Different fields mean different things when they say “agent.” So in this post, I’ll…
Innovation Without a Brief
I owe a great deal of my perspective on innovation and invention to my years at HP Labs India. With its charter of “innovating for the next billion,” HP Labs India was, above all, a product and solution concept factory—something like a design house, but with a few critical differences that remain surprisingly relevant today.…
Gestural and Multimodal Interfaces, Revisited: From Pointing to Delegation
Gestural interfaces have been declared “the future of computing” many times over the last half century. And yet, outside of touchscreens and a handful of specialized domains, they have stubbornly resisted becoming the dominant way we interact with machines. This is often framed as a story of hype cycles and technical immaturity. There is some…
Agentics: Toward a Science of AI Agents
If you’ve spent any time trying to make sense of agentic AI recently, you’ve probably noticed a familiar pattern. You start with a simple question—what exactly is an AI agent?—and quickly find yourself navigating a growing ecosystem of frameworks, abstractions, and design patterns. There are libraries for building autonomous agents, orchestration layers for multi-step workflows,…
Farewell
September 10, 1932 – December 9, 2021 Dr. Udipi Madhvanath, known to his close friends as “Uma” and in certain circles as “SriG appa” passed away at home in Bangalore on December 9th, 2021 following a brief illness. He was 89. He will be fondly remembered for his selflessness, generosity, kindness and his love for…
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