Biographical sketches of authors
Bradley J. Rhodes
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: rhodes@media.mit.edu).
Dr. Rhodes is a recent graduate of MIT's Media Lab, where he worked under the direction of Pattie Maes in the Software Agents Group. His research areas included the study of intelligence augmentation, just-in-time information retrieval, ubiquitous computing, context-aware applications, and wearable computing. He is one of the Media Lab Cyborgs and for the past four years has been an active member of the MIT Wearable Computing Project. He received his Ph.D. degree from the MIT Media Lab in 2000, his S.M. degree from the MIT Media Lab in 1996, and an S.B. degree in computer science from MIT in 1992.
Pattie Maes
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: pattie@media.mit.edu).
Dr. Maes is an associate professor at MIT's Media Lab, where she founded and directs the Software Agents Group and is principal investigator of the Media Lab e-markets Special Interest Group. Her team's work has included personalized information filtering agents, agents that automate behavior patterns, matchmaking agents, just-in-time information retrieval agents, and agents that buy and sell on behalf of a user. Dr. Maes received her doctoral degree in computer science and artificial intelligence from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium in 1987.
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