• DOI:10.1145/176789.176797
Corpus ID: 2447472

A softbot-based interface to the Internet

@article{Etzioni1994ASI,
  title={A softbot-based interface to the Internet},
  author={Oren Etzioni and Daniel S. Weld},
  journal={Commun. ACM},
  year={1994},
  volume={37},
  pages={72-76}
}

Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld

Published 1994

Computer Science

Commun. ACM

The Internet Softbot (software robot) is a fullyimplemented AI agent developed at the University of Washington (Etzioni, Lcsh, & Segal 1993). The softbot uses a UNIX shell and the World-Wide Web to interact with a wide range of internet resources. The softbot’s effectors include ftp, telnet, mail, and numerous file manipulation commaslds. Its sensors include internet facilities such as archie, gopher, netfind, and many more. The softbot is designed to incorporate new facilities into its… CONTINUE READING

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