grant@philtis.UUCP (Joe Grant) (05/06/88)
I am posting this in the hope that people out there can help me. I have just begun working in a Knowledge Based Systems group, and am hoping to train as a knowledge engineer. My background is as a software engineer, and the only exposure that I have had to knowledge engineering to date is a brief introduction to the are of expert systems in college, plus this and the other Comp.ai.* newsgroups which I have been reading for the last 6 weeks. What I would like to do is take some time to find out what courses are available, and plan out a training schedule that will at least give me a good grounding in the current knowledge engineering techniques. These may take the form of College, Company, or correspondence training, which ever suits the situation best, though the College option may very well not prove viable -- I can't see my employers letting me wonder off to anything but a 9--5 course, and all the college courses I took were far from 9--5 on one topic. I have heard that there are a number of in-house courses run by the likes of DEC, to train their own prospective knowledge engineers, any information on such courses would be greatly appreciated. I don't know how well such firms take to applications form non-employees, but if I can get the information at least I can test the water. As I am pretty green in this area I feel that the best way to approach this is to look at all the options. So if you know of any training course or aid, I would be indebted to you if you could let me know about it, and if you have any information as to its usefulness that too would be greatly appreciated. I am not so familiar with the network, so I don't know what sort of addressing format will be required to reach me. However I do know that the route from here to mcvax -- the European gateway I believe -- is via a system called philmds, if I were to send to there I'd enter philmds!mcvax!userid Hopefully that will be enough information for you to reach me. I hope to hear from some of you out there. Many thanks in advance. Joe Grant.