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on Dr. Roger Ray

    Computer Based AI:

        In 1991 Nan Mitchell and I received the Society for Computers in Psychology/Erlbaum Outstanding Paper Academic Excellence Award for a multimedia resource library concept in Behavioral Systems Analysis. This paper was the intial publication of a fully integrated system that was originally designed to manage the large-scale data generated in the Baboon project at the U of Washington. Because much of that project invovled video-based behavioral coding and integrating behavioral records with cardiovascular records, much of the software design focused on video digitization (for randomized access), behavioral coding on computers, and analog-to-digital conversion of physiological data into one fully integrated whole. That effort became my first venture into databased reconstructions and high-speed access to digital source materials. This quickly evolved into educational products rather than scientific research software. One of the first of my educational efforts resulted in the production of video laser disc and computer presentation products for Brown and Benchmark Publishers in Developmental Psychology. Soon my former Soviet collaborations brought over Victor Begiashvili and Tariel Gogoberidze to help in shifting from psychophysiology to educational software developement, and together we went on to develop both the artificially intelligent adaptive tutoring system known as MediaMatrix as well as the interactive digital video laboratory simulation product called CyberRat. CyberRat is used for teaching students how to train various behaviors in laboratory animals without having to use live animals. MediaMatrix, is a tutorial authoring and delivery system based on artificially intelligent and adaptive instructional technologies derived from my twenty-five years of behavioral systems research. I now distribute both CyberRat and MediaMatrix-delivered electronic textbook alternavites via my own research and development/publication company, (AI)2, Inc.

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