
 
                        Artificial Life Digest, Number 7
 
                           Wednesday, March 21st 1990
 
Issue's Topics:
 
                               information agents
                                 internet virus
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 90 09:55:03 EST
From: hunter@work.nlm.nih.gov (Larry Hunter)
Subject: information agents

I came in on the middle on the discussion of information agents, but
the idea seems to be related to the work I have been doing on
knowledge acquisition planning.  Refs:

  Hunter, L. "Knowledge Acquisition Planning: Gaining Expertise Through
  Experience," 1989, PhD thesis, Yale University.  Available as
  technical report YALEU/DCS/TR-678.

  Hunter, L. "Knowledge Acquisition Planning: Results and Prospects,"
  Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Machine Learning,
  p. 61-65, Morgan Kaufman, 1989

  Hunter, L. "Knowledge Acqusition Planning for Inference from Large
  Datasets," Proceedings of the 23rd annual Hawaii International
  Conference on System Sciences, Software Track, Vol 2., pp, 35-44. IEEE
  Press, 1990

  Hunter, L. "Planning to Learn," submitted to the 1990 Cognitive
  Science Society conference.

To get a copy of the thesis, write to Yale Computer Science Dept/New
Haven CT 06520.  I have available (p-)reprints of the others.  I just
heard about Kahn, but I haven't read his stuff yet; I will check the
other information agent literature cited in the list, too.  I would be
interested in talking to anyone working in this area.  Thanks!

					Larry Hunter
					National Library of Medicine
					Bldg 38A, MS-54
					Bethesda, MD 20894
					hunter@nlm.nih.gov
					(301) 496-9300
					(301) 496-0673 (fax) 

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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 90 10:51:13 EST
From: RAY <ray@vax1.acs.udel.edu>
Subject: internet virus

On the evening news last night, Tom Brokaw said that there is a ``virus''
in internet.  Does anyone have any information on this?

                             Tom Ray
                       University of Delaware
                  School of Life & Health Sciences
                      Newark, Delaware  19716
                       ray@vax1.acs.udel.edu
                           302-451-2753


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