Apprentice Contracts and the Apprentice System in Roman Egypt

An Environmental Impact Assessment Learning Apprentice System

In engineering problems with a weak domain theory, such as environmental evaluation, machine learning techniques should bring to bear any existing background knowledge so as to guide the knowledge acquisition process. This paper proposes an Interactive Inductive Learning System (IILS) which can use background knowledge provided by the experts to avoid many incorrect or incomplete induced heuris...

The Sourcerer’s Apprentice

This assignment considers the use of the apprenticeship model of teaching in academic subject areas. This has been investigated by various authors since 1989. I will consider the various flavours of the techniques presented and some of the practical implications of these. I will draw from our experience running several courses where students undertake business like projects within a protective ...

The scientists' apprentice.

The Virtual Apprentice

Over the past couple of decades, virtual humans have been attracting more and more attention. Many applications including, video games, movies, and various training and tutoring systems have benefited from work in this area. While the visual quality of virtual agents has improved dramatically, their intelligence and socialization still needs improvement. In this paper, we present work towards e...

The nurse apprentice, 1860–1977

of letters, shown clearly by Laurence Brockliss and Eric Hamraoui. As well as corresponding widely with his contemporaries, Tissot has left us with abundant source material on the patient/ doctor relationship. His detailed diagnostic letters as well as the patients' requests allow historians, such as Frederic Sardet, Philip Rieder and Vincent Barras, to examine eighteenth-century conceptions of...