May 2001โAugust 2002
Finding personal academic connections at a large, highly decentralized academic environment like MIT can be a challenge. If they can be located, students can benefit from study partners or faculty mentors seeking research assistants.
Using a multi-agents framework developed for the project, PDAs, desktop PCs, and servers could authenticate and help build a trusted network of acquaintances according to matched profiles and building on research in reputation theory. The in-person interactions facilitated by this system enabled countless collaborations and study sessions for tutoring, final projects, and studying for exams. More importantly, iMatch provided a way to form a network capable of connecting students to the invaluable human experiences built around learning.
Student Participants: Lik Mui, Jennifer Louie, Michael McGeachie, Mojdeh Mohtashemi, Waikit Koh