Beverly Park Woolf is a retired American computer scientist specializing in the applications of

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and

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s. She is a

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in the Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences at the

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Education and career

Woolf majored in physics as an undergraduate at

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. 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. She returned to the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a faculty member in 1992, became a research professor there in 2006, and directed the university's Center for Knowledge Communication. She has retired to become a professor emerita.

Books

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).

Recognition

Woolf was named a Fellow of the

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in 1996, "for contributions to the science, technology, and dissemination of multimedia, intelligent tutoring systems and authoring tools". She was named as a Presidential Innovation Fellow in 2013.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Woolf, Beverly Park Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists American women computer scientists American artificial intelligence researchers Smith College alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence