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Dr. Maes holds a Bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Her areas of expertise are Artificial Intelligence, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Information Filtering and Electronic Commerce. She also is a consultant in the area of Software Agents for several Fortune 1000 companies. She is the editor of three books and is an editorial board member and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences, such as the User Modeling journal, the Personal Technologies journal and the Artificial Life journal. In addition, Dr. Maes has been an active Internet entrepreneur since 1994. She was a founder and board member of Firefly Network, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts - one of the first companies to commercialize personalization and profiling technology. Firefly was acquired by Microsoft in April 1998. | 