[317] in DCNS Development
memetral presentation on Learning Interface Agents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Curby)
Tue Jul 6 17:59:42 1993
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 93 17:59:18 EST
From: mlc@MIT.EDU (Mark Curby)
To: macdev@MIT.EDU, developers@MIT.EDU, dcns@MIT.EDU, acs@MIT.EDU, css@MIT.EDU
The MIT MacDev user group and the DCNS Development group invite you to
attend the July 15th MacDev meeting
Thursday 4pm 15jul93 (a week from this Thursday) in E40-302
Max Metral will present work from his thesis "Design of a Generic
Learning Interface Agent" including
+ Memory Based Reasoning: Learning foundations and applicability to
computer applications.
+ Previous Work: The Calendar Agent and the ChainMail program
+ Eudora: Initial pass at Agentizing Eudora with Lisp
Current work in Agentizing Eudora with C
+ Problems and Benefits of the learning system as a whole
Learning interface agents are an attempt to make more powerful
information tools to help people deal more effectively with the flood of
electronic information. A learning agent would "watch" what you do as
you read your email or read netnews, etc. Once it began to recognize
common patterns it would begin to suggest actions for you, and later
could take actions for you independently. Max is attempting to develop
a generic agent which could be used with multiple applications. He is
presently modifying the Eudora Macintosh email program to communicate
with his agent via AppleEvents.
- Mark
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Mark Curby
MIT Network Services MIT Room E40-342G
(617) 253-7725 77 Massachusetts Ave.
mlc@mit.edu Cambridge, MA 02139
