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Oren Etzioni's Home Page;Oren Etzioni's Home Page;Department of Computer Science and Engineering; University of;Washington; Seattle,;Washington, 98195;Voice: (206) 685-3035;;E-mail: etzioni@cs.washington.edu;;FAX: (206) 543-2969.;Office: Sieg Hall, Room 209.;A brief bio;and photo.;Current Research; The;Internet Softbot enables a human user to state what he;or she wants accomplished. The Softbot disambiguates the request and;dynamically determines how and where to satisfy it.;The Softbot was one of the 5;finalists in the 1995 Discover;Awards for Technological Innovation in Computer Software.; The;MetaCrawler Softbot is a fielded Web service that enables you to search;multiple Web Indices in parallel, and provides sophisticated pruning;options. Try it!;c|net;recommends the MetaCrawler as the search service of choice!; The;Ahoy Softbot is a White Page service for the Web that locates;individual's home pages with high accuracy. Try it!; Brute;force learning: Brute can analyze 100,000 hypotheses a second, when;run on a SPARC-10.; Selected Publications;;Efficient Information Gathering on the Internet (FOCS '96);;Moving up the information food chain: deploying softbots on the;Web (AAAI '96); A;Scalable Comparison-Shopping Agent for the World-Wide Web;(Autonomous Agents '97); Multi-Service Search and; Comparison using the MetaCrawler in both; Postscript and; HTML, WWW '95.;; A Softbot-based interface to the internet.; CACM, July 1994.; Intelligent Agents on the Internet:; Fact, Fiction, and Forecast. IEEE Expert, August 1995.;; Intelligence without Robots (A Reply to Brooks).; AI Magazine, December 1993.;;Learning to understand information on the Internet. (IJCAI-95).;;Sound and Efficient Closed-World Reasoning for Planning (to;appear in AIJ).;;The First Law of Robotics (AAAI-94);;Additional Papers .; PhD Students Advised; Richard;Segal. Master's thesis: St. Bernard: The File;Retrieving Softbot, 1992.; Neal Lesh. Master's thesis: A Planner for a UNIX Softbot, 1993.; Keith Golden. Master's thesis: Planning for Universal;Quantification and Incomplete Information, 1994.; Terrance Goan. Master's thesis: Learning About Software Errors,;1994.; Mike;Perkowitz. Master's thesis: Learning to Understand Information on the; Internet, 1995.; Erik; Selberg. Master's thesis: Multi-Service Search and; Comparison using the MetaCrawler, 1995.; Oren Zamir and Jonathan Shakes.; Undergraduate Students Advised; Stephen Soderland, 1992, (PhD program, Umass Amherst).; Julie Roomy, 1993, (Hewlett-Packard).; Bruce Lesourd, 1993.; Robert Spiger, 1993, (Lockheed, AI research center).; William Alford, 1994, (PhD program, University of Wisconsin).; Greg Fitchenholtz, 1994, (Hewlett-Packard).; Guido Hunt, 1994.; Dymitr Mozdyniewicz, 1995, (Quark Inc.).; Machine Learning Resources;;The Machine Learning Database Repository;at UC Irvine.;;The Machine Learning Programs Repository at UC Irvine.; Knowledge Discovery Mine;containing information about knowledge discovery in databases.; Neuroprose;Archive containing recent papers relevant to neural networks.;;Machine Learning Information Services .;;University of Illinois Inductive Learning Group; StatLib containing data,;algorithms, and other information relevant to statistics.; Machine Learning;Toolbox (MLT) at GMD in Bonn, German.;;List of Usenet FAQs;Access Count Since Jan. 16, 1996:;;etzioni@cs.washington.edu;