t EU/US ad hoc Agent Markup Language Committee was
organised in Washington DC on 7-8 December 2000, to coincide with XML 2000,
the major industry event on XML technology.

The day before the face-to-face meeting, Tim Berners-Lee (director of W3C,
and member of the Joint Committee) gave an invited talk at XML2000 outlining
the vision and architecture of the Semantic Web, mentioning DAML and OIL as
core ingredients. A journalist report of Tim's talk can be found at
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