Intelligent Agents, Information Filtering, and Avatars

An example of an Intelligent Agent " Movie Critic"

"Wildfire" the Electronic Secretary

E-mail filters: An example "The Spam Filter"

Electronic clipping service: "LUCE Online"

Internet agents - spiders, crawlers, and robots: Search Engines

"Autonomy!" an intelligent search engine for specific tasks

Avatars

Yahoo Games gives you an idea of what an avatar is. Go and sit at one of the tables and play one of the games. You can change your character by clicking on it and it will change you to another. You can do this as many times as you like.

For the more adventurous visit "The Palace" A really popular avatar-based system that has many chat rooms and many different uses of avatars!

After reading the section labeled Intelligent Agents, Information Filtering and Avatars, answer the following questions:

1. What does the term Avatar refer to?
2. What is an intelligent agent, and why would you use one?
3. Who would use an electronic secretary and why?
4. What is an e-mail filter, and why are they useful?
5. Describe an electronic clipping service. What businesses would find this service useful?

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