This technology has been retired.

Gaku Yamamoto works at the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory. In the past few years, he has worked on Aglets, a mobile agent framework. He mainly focused on applications using Aglets. In 1997, Mr. Yamomoto developed "TabiCan," which is an agent-based, buy/sell marketplace that provides customers with information on airline tickets.

Mr. Yamamoto's interests are technologies of system infrastructure for business applications such as transaction processing systems and information management systems. He joined several projects for developing business applications as a system designer.

Currently, Mr. Yamamoto is focusing on agent platform technologies for real business applications. Most researchers studying agent technologies are focusing on "future" applications, but he is trying to apply agent technologies to real business applications, such as an internet banking systems.

Hideki Tai joined the Aglets project after he graduated from his university. He worked on the core part of Aglets. Mr. Tai's current interests are new Web application architectures and mobile agent technology.

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