Faculty Granted Patents
The CS department is pleased to announce that Professors Craig Wills and Neil Heffernan have both been issued patents for results derived from their research.
Craig Wills says:
"I'm happy to report that a colleague, Bala Krishnamurthy of AT&T Research Labs, and I were just notified that our patent application entitled "Method for Cache Validation for Proxy Caches" was issued U.S. Patent Number 6,578,113. This is for a patent application that we filed back in June 1997! Takes awhile."
Neil Heffernan's patent, co-authored by Ken Koedinger (CMU), has the following description:
The patent is for a novel way of presenting tutorial dialog in an intelligent tutoring system. We developed an architecture that separate the plan-recognition of the student's actions from the discourse planning that figure out what is the next best action to take to help the student achieve mastery. This patent fits in nicely with my current funded research to develop tools to make it easier to build intelligent tutoring systems so that one day, all interactions with a computer might be as easy as if you had access to an experienced and knowledge human tutor. This technology will also be used in our attempt to apply intelligent tutoring system to help student with the MCAS test. This technology was licensed this month by Carnegie Learning Inc, a company whose intelligent tutoring systems are being used by in over 1,000 schools.
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