Bruce Martin McLarenProfessional Bio |
Dr. McLaren has an extensive background in both research and practical
applications, specifically in educational technology, collaborative
learning, intelligent tutoring, eCommerce, case-based reasoning,
and artificial intelligence.
Currently, Dr., McLaren has a split appointment as a senior
researcher at the Deutsches
Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
and as a systems scientist at Carnegie
Mellon University. At both institutions, Dr. McLaren is engaged
in research in human learning and educational technology. He does
his research within the Competence Center for e-Learning at DFKI and within
the Pittsburgh Science of Learning
Center at CMU. At CMU, he co-manages a team of 8 programmers
and research associates in the development and enhancement of the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT).
Dr. McLaren has over 50 publications in journals, conferences, workshops,
and symposiums.
In addition, Dr. McLaren has over 20 years experience in the commercial sector, applying research ideas to practical problems. As Director of eCommerce Technologies at OpenWebs Corporation from 2000 to 2002, he led a group of four engineers in the development of intelligent inter-company (B2B) trading products. He was also the leader of many expert system projects during over 10 years working for Carnegie Group, Inc. (now Logica) and Carnegie (U.K.) Limited.
Dr. McLaren holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Intelligent Systems from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.S. in Computer
Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.S. in Computer
Science (cum laude) from Millersville University.
He has been a participant on many academic conference and workshop
committees. Dr. McLaren is the co-holder of two patents and one
patent pending.
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Select publications include:
McLaren, B.M., Scheuer, O., De Laat, M., Hever, R., De Groot, R., and Rosé,
C.P. (2007). Using Machine Learning Techniques to Analyze and Support Mediation
of Student E-Discussions. In the Proceedings of the 13th International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007), IOS Press,
(p. 141-147). [ pdf
]
McLaren, B.M., Lim, S., Yaron, D., and Koedinger, K.R. (2007). Can a Polite Intelligent Tutoring System Lead to Improved Learning Outside of the Lab? In the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007), IOS Press. (p. 443-440). [ pdf ]
McLaren, B.M., Lim, S., Gagnon, F., Yaron, D., and Koedinger, K.R.
(2006). Studying the Effects of Personalized Language and Worked Examples
in the Context of a Web-Based Intelligent Tutor; In the Proceedings
of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS-2006).
Jhongli, Taiwan, June 26-30. (p. 318-328). (Finalist for the
Best Paper Award at this conference)
[ pdf
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McLaren, B.M. (2006). Computational Models of Ethical Reasoning: Challenges,
Initial Steps, and Future Directions. IEEE Intelligent Systems,
Published by the IEEE Computer Society. July/August 2006 edition. (p. 29-37).
[ pdf
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McLaren, B.M., Bollen, L., Walker, E., Harrer, A., and Sewall, J. (2005).
Cognitive Tutoring of Collaboration: Developmental and Empirical Steps Toward
Realization. In the Proceedings of the Conference on Computer
Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL-05). Taipei, Taiwan in
May/June 2005. (p. 418-422). [ pdf ]
McLaren, B.M., Koedinger, K.R., Schneider, M., Harrer, A., and Bollen,
L. (2004). Bootstrapping Novice Data: Semi-Automated Tutor Authoring Using
Student Log Files. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Analyzing
Student-Tutor Interaction Logs to Improve Educational Outcomes, Seventh
International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS-2004).
August 2004. [ pdf
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Aleven, V., McLaren, B.M., Roll, I. and Koedinger, K.R. (2004). Toward
Tutoring Help Seeking: Applying Cognitive Modeling to Meta-Cognitive Skills.
In the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent
Tutoring Systems (ITS-2004). (p. 227-239). (Won the Best
Paper Award at this conference) [ pdf ]
McLaren, B.M. (2003). Extensionally Defining Principles and Cases in Ethics:
an AI Model; McLaren, B. M., Artificial Intelligence Journal,
Volume 150, (p. 145-181), November 2003. [ pdf ]
Ashley, K.D. and McLaren, B.M. (1995). Reasoning with Reasons in
Case-Based Comparisons. In the Proceedings of the First International
Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-95). Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence 1010. Springer: Berlin. October, 1995, Sesimbra, Portugal.
(p. 133-144). (Won the Distinguished Paper Award at
this conference) [ pdf
]
Select research presentations include:
Kaleidoscope Symposium on Technology-Enhanced Learning, Oberhausen, Germany July 2005. Talk titled: "The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center: Learning Studies and Technology in Actual Classroom Settings" (Contact: Dr. Andreas Harrer)
GE Research, Albany, New York, February 2003. (Contact: Dr. Bill Cheetham)
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, February 2003.
The Fraunhofer Institute, Berlin, Germany, February 2003. (Contact: Dr. Thomas Gordon)
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh,
Scotland, February 2003. (Contact: Dr. John Zeleznikow)