The ADL Initiative has the mission to develop and advance the state of the art in education and training through the use of technology and innovative learning methodologies which highly leverage artificial intelligence, networking and data warehousing and recall technologies for the Department of Defense and across the Federal Government. The goal of this initiative is to provide a persistent capability by which learners have access to effective, personalized learning content and/or job performance aids that can be presented to the user in a transparent and ubiquitous manner in a format suitable for their preferences and can be accessed from multiple devices/platforms through a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL). Inherent system requirements include flexibility of platform and scalability to modern massively multiplayer on line games, yet focused on learning for the individual user. Research projects funded under this topic area will include exploratory and advanced research related to this mission, as well as, technology demonstrations and prototypes. The ADL Initiative has the mission to develop and advance the state of the art in education and training through the use of technology and innovative learning methodologies which highly leverage artificial intelligence, networking and data warehousing and recall technologies for the Department of Defense and across the Federal Government. The goal of this initiative is to provide a persistent capability by which learners have access to effective, personalized learning content and/or job performance aids that can be presented to the user in a transparent and ubiquitous manner in a format suitable for their preferences and can be accessed from multiple devices/platforms through a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL). Inherent system requirements include flexibility of platform and scalability to modern massively multiplayer on line games, yet focused on learning for the individual user. Research projects funded under this topic area will include exploratory and advanced research related to this mission, as well as, technology demonstrations and prototypes.