AI-ED-REQUEST@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Moderator Steve Barnhouse...) (04/30/88)
[Forwarded from the IRList Digest.]
AI-ED Digest Saturday, 30 Apr 1988 Volume 3 : Issue 16
Date: 15 Apr 88 13:05:00 EST
From: "ARTIC::PSOTKA" <psotka%artic.decnet@ari-hq1.arpa>
Subject: New AERA AI & ED SIG
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & EDUCATION
A NEW Special Interest Group was formed at the annual meeting of AERA in
New Orleans in April. I am pleased to announce that Wallace Feurzeig of
BBN Laboratories is the first Chair of the SIG on AI&ED. Cathie Norris
of the University of North Texas is the Newsletter Editor, and Joe
Psotka of the U.S. Army Research Institute is the Secretary/Treasurer.
It was the consensus of the SIG organizational meeting that it is
time to put AI to use in schools by getting a broader range of researchers
to be aware of its potential. Artificial Intelligence is advancing
rapidly on a broad front of research issues. Many of these
issues are directly relevant to the interests and needs of teachers
and researchers at all levels of instruction, and in many different settings.
This SIG will provide an overview of the current issues that may have the
strongest effect on education.
Artificial Intelligence
is increasingly becoming more applicable to practical use in education.
In part, this is because the technology of AI, based as it
is on specific algorithms and understanding derived from areas of computer
science and cognitive science somewhat remote from the mainstream
of educational research, is maturing steadily and becoming less
arcane and more generally useful for instruction. The other main reason
for this increasing practicality of AI technology is the continuing
increase in the power of available personal computer technology at
an affordable price for schools and workplaces to purchase. The outstanding
example of this is the Hypercard environment on MACs, and the
powerful Lisp environments on all new PCs. Both of these factors make
it more important that educational researchers understand and become
familiar with AI technology.
This SIG will offer us an opportunity
to introduce other educational researchers to these topics. The SIG
on AI & ED will be mainly concerned with the use of AI and cognitive
science technologies for education. Primary areas for reporting research
in these technologies will be within Authoring systems for CBI
and ICAI; intelligent microworlds; machine learning; complex environments
for instruction; knowledge representation; qualitative modelling
techniques; structures of declarative knowledge; computer thinking
tools; rule systems for procedural knowledge; student modelling;
student diagnosis; teacher amplifiers; hypertext systems; natural
language processing; and other important outgrowths of AI that offer
significant potential for improving education in the schools, workplace,
and at home.
For more information, inquiries, suggestions for symposia, and other
offers of support, please contact :
Wallace Feurzeig,
BBN Laboratories
10 Moulton St
Cambridge, MA 02238 at (617)873-3448 or Feurzeig@g.bbn.com.arpa
Send newsletter contributions, announcements, and other information to:
Cathie Norris
University of North Texas
P. O. Box 5155
Denton, TX 76203 at (817)565-4189
Joseph Psotka, Ph.D.
Army Research Institute
5001 Eisenhower Avenue
Alexandria, Virginia 22333-5600
OR CALL: (202)274-5540 or Psotka@ARI-HQ1.Arpa
If you would like to join, please send this application.
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