Assistant

An assistant is a person or electronic tool that helps some person with their work.

Here is a list of assistant-related topics :
* People:
** Academy Award for Best Assistant Director â€" Oscars for assistant directors.
** Assistant district attorney
** Assistant Editor â€" helps a film or video editor.
** Certified Nursing Assistant
** Graduate assistant:
*** Research assistant â€" junior graduate scholar, employed on a temporary contract by a college or university for the purpose of academic research.
*** Teaching assistant
** Personal assistant
** Physician assistant
* Automation:
** Assistant â€" software tool to assist in the configuration of a computer.
** Office Assistant â€" animated character that comes along with Microsoft Office products.
** Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)â€" hand-held devices.
* Television:
** The Assistant - MTV "reality" show starring Andy Dick.

Right-hand man

A Right-hand man is a person relied upon heavily by another. The term comes from the importance of the right hand in performing tasks (since many people are right-handed). The predominance of right-handedness may account for attitudes of importance and superiority placed on the right over the left by many cultures.

There is speculation that "right-hand man" also comes from the idea of a king with his advisor sitting on his right side, by his right hand. However, there is little evidence supporting it.List of people who have been described as someone's right-hand man

Person	Right-hand man
Alexander the Great	Hephaestion
Adolf Hitler	Rudolf Hess
	Hermann Göring
	Martin Bormann
J. Edgar Hoover	Clyde Tolson
Warren Buffett	Charlie Munger
Batman	Robin
Bertie Wooster	Jeeves
Ramon Salazar	Verdugo

See also

* Agent
* Microsoft Agent
* Wizard
* Collaborative software