rwl1@gte-labs.CSNET (Bob Lawler) (06/25/86)
[Forwarded from the AI-Ed Digest by Laws@SRI-AI.] Dear Colleagues, Today I received from Elsevier a special issue of the Journal of Instructional Science on the theme of "AI and Education". This double- number volume (several hundred pages in length) was prepared by Masoud Yazdani (University of Exeter) and myself (Bob Lawler) as a preliminary collection of articles prepared for the Second International Conference on AI and Education held at Exeter University in September 1985. The issue is Volume 14, Nos. 3 and 4, dated May, 1986. A more comprehensive book on the theme will be forthcoming at the end of 1986. The contents of the special issue are as follows: M. Yazdani and R. Lawler AI and Education: an overview A. DiSessa Artifical Worlds and Real Experience W. Feurzeig Algebra Slaves and Agents in a Logo-based Mathematics Curriculum R. Lawler and G. Lawler Computer Microworlds and Reading H. Lieberman An Example Based Environment for Beginning Programmers S. Ohlsson Some Principles of Intelligent Tutoring J. Self The Application of Machine Learning to Student Modelling A. Priest Solving Problems in Newtonian Mechanics G. Drescher Genetic AI: translating Piaget to Lisp K. Carley Knowledge Acquisition as a Social Phenomenon If you are interested in having a copy of this journal, write to: Elsevier Science Publishers Science and Technology Division P.O. Box 330 1000 AH Amsterdam The Netherlands The price for this double-issue of the journal is $57.25, which includes air transport to the US and surface mail on the continent. Bob Lawler (LAWLER at GTE-LABS on CSNET) (LAWLER at MIT-OZ through MIT-MC on ARPANET)