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Abstract:
(Invited talks)
This talk describes the application of a variety of Artificial
Intelligence techniques to common Internet tasks, as developed at
Artificial Life, Inc. The talk will give a brief overview of
several of the present and future "smart bots" developed by
Artificial Life, including ALife-WebGuide, a personal assistant
that guides visitors through a web site using a natural language
interface; ALife-STAn, the smart text analyzer that processes
WebGuide log files to determine the topics discussed by WebGuide
users; ALife-Messenger, an intelligent e-mail auto-responses
system; and Net-tissimo.com, a bot-based e-commerce solution. These
and other products are based on Artificial Life's SmartEngine core
technology, which combines natural language processing and various
other techniques. The talk will review some of the scientific and
technical underpinnings of this technology, and it will discuss
some of our experience in implementing and commercializing these
systems.
Paolo Gaudiano received a BA in Applied Mathematics (1984) and
an MS in Aerospace Engineering (1987) from the University of
Colorado at Boulder, and a Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems
from Boston University. Between 1991 and 1999 Paolo Gaudiano was
Assistant and later Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural
Systems at Boston University, where he conducted research in
vision, behavioral neurobiology and robotics. In 1994 he founded
the Neurobotics Lab, a center for research on neural network
applications to mobile robotics. In January of 1999 Paolo Gaudiano
changed his affiliation at Boston University to Research Associate
Professor and Director of the Neurobotics Lab, and began working as
Chief Scientist at Artificial Life, Inc., where he is working on
applications of various AI techniques to Internet problems. Paolo
Gaudiano was the recepient of a Sloan Fellowship in Neuroscience
(1992), Fourtes and Klingenstein fellowships from the Woods Hole
Marine Biological Laboratory (1995), and a Young Investigator Award
from the Office of Naval Research (1996). He has given over 50
invited lectures across the USA and in Europe, has written over 30
publications, and has served on a variety of editorial boards,
advisory boards, and program committees.
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