James E. Hanson
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
P. O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
jehanson@us.ibm.com

Current research interests

• Conversation Support for agents, e-business, and component integration
  Making it easy to carry on complex, dynamic, stateful, contextual message exchanges


• The Information Economy.
  Q: What do you get when e-business automation reaches critical mass?
  A: A gigabot information economy.


• Emergent phenomena in computer networks .
  Suppose I tell my email client to automatically forward jokes to my friends. Suppose my friends do the same thing. Behold: a "maelstrom" is born.


• Dynamics of patterns in spatial systems .
  Characterizing patterns in spatial systems is just the first step, but it's a big one.