Tutorials
Links
Where Do Intelligent Agents Come From?
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-4/dumbagents.html
"Researchers at Indiana University (IU) are part of a growing community that believe that the dumb-agent approach will both enable Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers to build more intelligent systems and enable cognitive scientists to study intelligence more broadly." Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine.
DavidReilly.com: Software Agents
http://www.davidreilly.com/topics/software_agents/
An informal and brief overview with links to more information.