[HN Gopher] Pattie Maes and the foundations of social networks
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       Pattie Maes and the foundations of social networks
        
       Author : Hooke
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2022-04-22 00:58 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | esfandia wrote:
       | She also worked on reflection in programming languages. Also, her
       | work (with her students) on "interface agents", i.e. programs
       | that learn what to do by observing and imitating the user, was
       | the inspiration for my own PhD thesis way back when (I took her
       | idea and tried to adapt it to network supervision). They used
       | some kind of k-nearest neighbor algorithm (machine learning
       | wasn't as sophisticated as it is these days!) then added a social
       | dimension by having agents help each other. Lots of cool stuff
       | came out of MIT Medialab back then.
        
       | adamnemecek wrote:
       | > WHY HAVE HER CONTRIBUTIONS BEEN NEGLECTED?
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       | Because she hasn't built a social network and I doubt anyone
       | building social networks is familiar with her work.
        
       | jimmydeans wrote:
        
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