Ames = NASA Ames Research Center, also ARC (Moffett Field, CA)

Brahms = Business Redesign Holistic Modeling System, the modeling and simulation system in which the "agents" of MA are implemented (Clancey & Sierhuis, Co-PIs; see www.agentisolutions.com).

ERA = EVA Robotic Assistant, aka "Boudreaux" and "the robot" (Jeff Graham, PI; see vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er_er/html/era/era.html)

EVA = Extra Vehicular Activity ("space walk" or lunar/planetary surface activity usually involving astronauts wearing space suits).

GRC = NASA Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, OH)

JSC = NASA Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)

MA = Mobile Agents project (Clancey, PI; Sierhuis, Project Lead)

MAA = Mobile Agents Architecture (software and hardware configuration)

MEX = Mars EXploration System (wireless computing and communications system -- Rick Alena, PI)

NREN = NASA Research & Education Network (managed by ARC, see www.nren.nasa.gov)

PER = Personal Exploration Robot (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~illah/EDUTOY/)

PI = Principal Investigator (first author of funding proposals and responsible for project products and quality)

RIACS = Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (contractor at Ames, part of USRA, see www.riacs.edu)

RIALIST = RIACS Language Interfaces and Speech Technology group (at Ames, see www.riacs.edu/speech/speech.html)

USRA = Universities Space Research Association (non-profit consortium of research universities, bridging NASA and academic community; see www.usra.edu).