Are you reading this email in the Pittsburgh Area?
We at Carnegie Mellon University are thinking about using Jess to
build intelligent tutoring systems. Currently we are advertising for
a job listed below looking for someone with Lisp experience, but
might want to move the whole system to Jess, and avoid having to use
any Lisp. If someone is local to Pittsburgh and using Jess, and/or
knows someone who might be interested in this job, please let us know.
Neil Heffernan
Carnegie Mellon University
RESEARCH PROGRAMMER POSITION - LISP EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE AUTHORING TOOLS
The Pittsburgh Area Cognitive Tutoring (PACT) Center
Carnegie Mellon University
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The PACT Center at Carnegie Mellon University is conducting research on
cognitive tutors for high school and middle school mathematics. Each of
these tutors
* is based on advanced research in artificial intelligence,
cognitive psychology, and education,
* provides students with rich problem solving activities, and
* rather than multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions
offers students individualized step-by-step guidance as needed,
based on a cognitive model of student knowledge.
PACT Center cognitive tutors for high school mathematics are now in use in
more than 700 schools nationwide and have resulted in higher student
achievement and increased retention in the academic math sequence in both
inner city and suburban high schools.
We are currently embarking on a project to develop an authoring
environment, based on end-user computing techniques, that will greatly
facilitate the development of the cognitive models used in these tutors.
The tools will be suitable for use by cognitive modelers without an
extensive programming background. A first suite of these tools will be
built around our current Lisp-based Tutor Development Kit (TDK).
PROGRAMMING POSITION: LISP EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE AUTHORING TOOLS
A full-time programmer is currently needed to assume responsibility for
programming the authoring tools. This involves the development of GUI tools
that interface with the TDK production rule engine, for supporting
activities in the design, testing, and debugging of cognitive models.
Additional tasks will include doing user studies of the developed tools
with users of varying levels of cognitive modeling experience.
BS or equivalent in cognitive science, cognitive psychology or computer
science and LISP programming experience are required. Experience in HCI
techniques for user studies, with AI techniques especially production rule
models, or in cognitive science research, research programming or
mathematics education is desirable. Experience in Java GUI programming an
optional extra.
The initial appointment is until September 30, 2002, but an additional year
is anticipated. We are looking to hire immediately.
Please send resumes to Neil Heffernan (email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], FAX:
412-268-1266, or Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213). For more information on the PACT Center
research on cognitive tutors, see: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pact/
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Neil T. Heffernan, Ph.D. Office Phone: 412-268-5663
Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department, Wean Hall 3208
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Home of Ms. Lindquist-the Online Algebra Word-Problem Tutor:
http://www.AlgebraTutor.org
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