Re: (book recommendation re: net agents)

Rob Turk (rturk@austin.ibm.com)
Mon, 10 Jun 1996 08:48:49 -0500


anna@nerve.itim.mi.cnr.it wrote:
>
> Someone can suggest me any books about robots and their implementation?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Anna

Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers, and Bots
by: Fah-Chun Cheong
New Riders Publishing
201 West 103rd Street
Indianapolis, In 46290 USA

ISBN: 1-56205-463-5
http://www.mcp.com/newriders

One line review: "Good book if you don't have access to the web. If you do, check out:

http://agents.www.media.mit.edu/groups/agents/
http://thule.mt.cs.cmu.edu:8001/braustubl/
http://thule.mt.cs.cmu.edu:8001/webants/
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~amw/agents
http://www.media.mit.edu/
http://www.kollar.com/robots.html
http://info.webcrawler.com/mailing-lists/robots/index.html
http://ling.lsa.umich.edu/cgi-bin/chomsky.pl

and save the $US32 for the Camel book (by Larry Wall & Randal Schwartz) available at http://www.ora.com and you might
have saved yourself enough change to treat yourself to a smoothie, plus you'll be prepared for what's out there..."

-- 
Rob Turk <mailto:rturk@austin.ibm.com> Unofficially Speaking.
"One planet is all you get."