Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:20:12 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 23:43:52 GMT Content-length: 9177 Bob Doorenbos' Home Page

Bob Doorenbos' Home Page


Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195

Office: 423 Sieg Hall; (206) 543-3368; bobd@cs.washington.edu; FAX (206) 543-2969


Currently working at:
Netbot Inc.
4530 Union Bay Place NE, Suite 208
Seattle, WA 98105

Voice (206) 522-7800 ext. 109; FAX (206) 522-7800 ext. 114


Daily web pages:

  • Comedy: Dilbert Strips, Mr. Boffo, David Letterman's Top Ten List
  • Geeky news: News.com, ZDNet Anchordesk, ZD Magazines
  • Other good stuff: Shortcut to today's Cool Tool
  • Research:

  • Current: Postdoc working with Oren Etzioni, Steve Hanks, and Dan Weld on the Softbot project (see also AI at U-W)
  • In particular: ShopBot, an internet shopping agent.
  • Previous: The Soar project
  • My Thesis (1.7 meg)
  • AI, CS, and science web sites:

  • AI Collections: U-W AI Pointers, CMU AI Repository, Canada NRC KSL AI Pointers, ML& CBR Home Pages
  • Organizations: ACM, SIGART, AAAI, Computing Research Association
  • Journals and Conferences: JAIR, Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, IJCAI
  • SPEC data: SPEC Organization, current spectable
  • Java links: Sun, Gamelan, The Java Developer, JavaNotes, UW jump page, UW CSE 590S, Local copy of Sun's java tutorial
  • Perl links: Adam Rifkin's Perl links, Perl5 manual, www.perl.com
  • Miscellaneous: On-line CS tech reports, CS Dept. Front Doors & Gophers
  • Science: Scientific American, Sigma Xi/American Scientist
  • Miscellaneous other links:

  • Web Meta-Searching: MetaCrawler, SavvySearch
  • Web Searching: Alta Vista, Lycos, Inktomi, Open Text, InfoSeek, Excite, Web Crawler, HotBot
  • Web Directories (hierarchical or more selective): Yahoo, Magellan, a2z, PointCom, Top of the Web
  • Lists of Search Engines: Guide to Searching the Net
  • Other Online Searches: FTP search
  • Telephone Directories: World Yellow Pages Network, Big Yellow, 555-1212.com, Switchboard White Pages, List of Other Directories
  • News: CNN, CNNfn, NewsHour, Washington Post, USA Today, Reuters Headlines (from Yahoo), News Page (from The Social Cafe), US News and World Report, Boston Globe, C-SPAN, Seattle Times
  • Views: Slate, Feed, Salon, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's
  • Sports: ESPN Sports Zone
  • U.S. Government: FedWorld Index, White House, Congress, IRS, NSF, ARPA
  • The Federal Budget Deficit: U.S. National Debt Clock, The Concord Coalition, Try Your Hand at Balancing the Budget, Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform, The Budget
  • American Universities
  • Web Museums
  • Links from my past life in Pittsburgh at CMU:

  • Upcoming birthdays
  • CMU-SCS home page, personal home pages, and fun page

  • bobd@cs.washington.edu