Beverly Park Woolf | |
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Alma mater | Smith College, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Occupation(s) | Computer scientist, professor emerita |
Employer | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Known for | Applications of artificial intelligence in educational technology and intelligent tutoring systems |
Notable work | Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors: Student-Centered Strategies for Revolutionizing E-Learning (2008) |
Awards | Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (1996), Presidential Innovation Fellow (2013) |
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]
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]
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).
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]