BotSpot^® Bi-Weekly Newsletter

May 30, 2001

Preview: Bot2001 Seminar

Want to extend your knowledge of bots and want to get some insight from the experts? Then you'll want to check out Bot2001, a seminar that brings together leading bot and intelligent agent developers, researchers and academics -- all presenting the most recent developments in this rapidly growing field.

Bot2001 will cover all aspects of bots and intelligent agents allowing the most inexperienced observer to the seasoned professional to have a better understanding of bots as a business tool. Leaders in the field will diffuse the latest hype and give you specific information on how to implement bots and intelligent agents.

Presented by Expert Marcus P. Zillman, creator of BotSpot.com and CEO of BotTechnology.com, the Bot2001 agenda includes the following presentations:

Bots in Advertising
Joe Timm, will discuss how to break through the advertising clutter with Bots. Artificial Life mobile computing has developed a suite of bot-based marketing solutions for advertisers. The core of these applications is a branded smart bot character embedded into advertising creative such as a banner (BannerBot T) or an e-mail (BotMail T).

What Artificial Intelligence Can Give To The Web, and What The Web Can Give To Artificial Intelligence
Dr. David G. Stork, Chief Scientist of Ricoh Innovations, will discuss intelligent software and how it must be trained with large amounts of data, such as speech sounds or common sense facts. In many cases this data cannot be obtained by traditional data mining.

Enterprise Intelligence
Mahendra B. Vora, Chairman and CEO of Intelliseek, will discuss how the explosive growth of the Internet has created new opportunities for corporations to become smarter in understanding customer needs, competitive information, and market dynamics. Learn how intelligent agents or bots are transforming the vast information resources on the Internet into actionable intelligence for the Enterprise, enabling them to build better brands and nurture and protect them.

Virtual Representatives as the First Line of Effective Online Service
Walter Alden Tackett, Ph.D., Chairman, CEO and Co-founder of NativeMinds, will discuss his firm's self-service interaction management software, designed to build and maintain automated online customer service.

The Next Step in NLP: From Chatterbots to Automated Communication Centers
Karl L. von Wendt, CEO, Kiwilogic.com, will discuss the next generation of NLP applications. In the future, they will take a much more central role: As the main, universal user interface that connects customers through various online and mobile media to a company´s information and process control systems. The presentation will show how "automated communication centers" can streamline and improve the whole communication process with customers, from gathering information via order processing to support.

The Client-Side Bot has No Clothes
Jerry Tardif, Vice President, Information Systems & Services, BrightPlanet, will explain why the client-side bot is intrinsicly limited when compared it to its server-side analog. This presentation identifies those limitations and describes the many advantages of the server-side approach. Learn how BrightPlanet is successfully harvesting quality hidden content from hundreds of thousands of databases - offering collaborative information retrieval and across an enterprise (server-based) via a Web browser.

Bots for the Wireless Web
Daniel Billsus, CTO of AdaptiveInfo.com, will show that the utility of the wireless web has thus far not lived up to users' expectations: slow connections, small screens and poorly designed interfaces often lead to a frustrating user experience. This talk presents novel Bot technology designed to bridge the apparent gap between promise and reality of the Wireless Web. Bots that automatically learn user preferences can greatly simplify access to information anywhere and anytime.

The seminar will be held on June 19, 2001, at Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston. For more information, visit the seminar's home page at http://seminars.internet.com/bot/boston01/index.html.