Neil Heffernanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Neil T. Heffernan (born 1970 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is a professor of computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is known for his role in the development of the ASSISTment software, which helps students learn mathematics even as it assesses their knowledge, and which is used by over 4000 students a year in Massachusetts. Technology developed by Heffernan has also been incorporated into Cognitive Tutor software developed by Carnegie Learning. He is widely published in intelligent tutoring systems, and educational data mining, and he and his research group has repeatedly won "Best Paper" awards at scientific conferences in those areas, including the Marr Prize for Best Student Paper at the 1997 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, and the James Chen award for the Best Paper of the Year in the journal User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction.