(this is a slightly expanded transcript of a talk I gave at Oxford in June 2009 about my work there)

Hi! I’m Howard Yeend, my supervisor is Vasile Palade, and the title of my project is:

“Implementing Adaptive Web Sites using Machine Learning and Ajax“.

But before I talk about what all those buzzwords mean, I’d like to give a little background information about why this is an important research area, and why I feel it’s the right project for me.

When I was trying to think of a project title, I had a question in mind:

How can we improve the web?

And I think that’s a hugely important question for us to ask.

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