Beverly Park Woolf

Beverly Park Woolf is a retired American computer scientist specializing in the applications of artificial intelligence in educational technology and intelligent tutoring systems. She is a professor emerita in the Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1]

Education and career

Woolf majored in physics as an undergraduate at Smith College. She continued her studies as a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, earning a master's degree in computer science in 1980, a Ph.D. in computer science in 1984, and an Ed.D. in 1990.[1]

She returned to the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a faculty member in 1992, became a research professor there in 2006,[1] and directed the university's Center for Knowledge Communication.[1][2] She has retired to become a professor emerita.[1]

Books

Woolf is the author of Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors: Student-Centered Strategies for Revolutionizing E-Learning (Elsevier / Morgan Kaufmann, 2008). She is a coauthor of Transforming Learning with New Technologies (with Robert W. Malloy, Ruth-Ellen A. Verock-O'Loughlin, and Sharon A. Edwards, Pearson, 2010; 4th ed., 2021).

Recognition

Woolf was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1996, "for contributions to the science, technology, and dissemination of multimedia, intelligent tutoring systems and authoring tools".[3] She was named as a Presidential Innovation Fellow in 2013.[1][4]

References
  1. "Beverly P. Woolf", Directory, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, retrieved 2024-06-22
  2. Center for Knowledge Communication, archived from the original on 2020-08-08{{citation}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. Elected AAAI Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, retrieved 2024-06-22
  4. "Dr. Beverly Park Woolf", Presidential Innovation Fellows, US General Services Administration, retrieved 2024-06-22
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