Projects:

Smart Personal Assistant

Thesis:

Title: Extending Non-monotonic Reasoning in BDI Agents

Overview:
An agent architecture for the coordination of personal assistants

External Site Links:

http://ecommerce.cit.gu.edu.au/ict/who_pg.asp?ID=J.Blee

Biography:

Jeff Blee is a mature age student who has tried his hand at running a dry cleaning business, working as a kitchenhand and cook, as well as a truck driver and warehouse manager. After approaching his local TAFE to find out more about computers, Jeff’s interest in computers developed and he competed a Diploma of IT in Applications Programming. Realising his aptitude for the area, Jeff entered university to complete an IT degree which he completed with several awards, majors in Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science and the highest GPA in his degree for that year. Jeff decided to continue in the following year and do the Honours addition for the degree, for which he achieved first class honours and a University Medal. Jeff is currently working on his PhD.

Previous Positions:

Truck driver, kitchen hand, warehouse manager, cook

Qualifications:

Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours)

Research Interests:

Agent technology, BDI agents, non-monotonic logic

Awards:

Australian Computer Society Award and Sun Microsystems Award for student with best result for the Bachelor of Information; Griffith University’s Award for Academic Excellence in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004; Awarded a University Medal

Other Professional Interests:

I am keen to learn and gain experience in the real world and am interested in all aspects of software development and maintenance with a slight emphasis on databases and programming.