Bruce Martin McLaren

Awards and Recognition

Finalist for Best Paper Award.
The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2006
Paper Title: Studying the Effects of Personalized Language and Worked Examples in the Context of a Web-Based Intelligent Tutor; McLaren, B. M., Lim, S., Gagnon, F., Yaron, D., and Koedinger, K. R. In the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS-2006), Jhongli, Taiwan, June 26-30, 2006.

Best Paper Award.
The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2004
Paper Title: Toward Tutoring Help Seeking: Applying Cognitive Modeling to Meta-Cognitive Skills; by Aleven, V., McLaren, B. M., Roll, I. and Koedinger, K. R. In the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS-2004). Conference held in Maceio, Brazil, August 30 through September 3, 2004.

Most Distinguished Paper Award.
The First International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, 1995
Paper Title:Reasoning with Reasons in Case-Based Comparisons. Conference held in 1995 in Sesimbra, Portugal. Paper co-authored with K. D. Ashley. Based on my 1994 Intelligent Systems Masters project.

Patents.

Patent Number 5995920. Granted November 30, 1999. Computer-based Method and System for Monolingual Document Development. Jointly held with a team from Carnegie Group, Inc. (now Logica) and Carnegie Mellon University.

Patent Number 5677835. Granted October 14, 1997. Integrated Authoring and Translation System. Jointly held with a team from Carnegie Group, Inc. (now Logica) and Carnegie Mellon University.

Pending, Number PCT/US01/05609. Submitted in August 7, 2001. Method and System for Creating and Using a Peer-to-Peer Trading Network. Jointly submitted with Philip J. Hayes and Aidan J. McKenna of OpenWebs Corporation.

Engineering Times Article, July 2001.
NSPE Ethics Cases Meet Artificial Intelligence. Article written about my Ph.D. research.

Recipient of a Mellon Fellowship.
September, 1998 to April, 1999.
Holder of prestigious scholarship award while completing my Ph.D.

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[ DFKI - Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH ]
[ Carnegie Mellon University / Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center ]
[ Carnegie Group, Inc. (now Logica) ]
[ University of Pittsburgh / The Intelligent Systems Program ]
[ Millersville University / Computer Science Department ]
[ The Appalachian Trail Conference ]
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