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Hot-Tracked Appearance

Dave, Arthur, thanks for your help - I would never have thought of looking
in Deliver to find the application icon slot.

I have one more question about Lispworks: is it possible, under CAPI, to
create toolbar buttons with a hot-tracked appearance?  For example, let's
say you're using Window's Explore under Windows 2000 and you move your
pointer over the history button in the toolbar.  The history button is
originally in a neutral color, but once the pointer moves over it, the
border is raised and a color representation is used. Is something like that
available?

Lisp job in pittsburgh

Lisp job in pittsburgh
We at Carnegie Mellon University are looking for Lisp programmers.  See the add at the bottom.
        Neil Heffernan
At 12:42 PM -0500 3/27/02, Neil Heffernan wrote:
 
RESEARCH PROGRAMMER POSITION
                   LISP EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE AUTHORING TOOLS

             The Pittsburgh Area Cognitive Tutoring (PACT) Center
                          Carnegie Mellon University

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The PACT Center at Carnegie Mellon University is conducting research on cognitive tutors for high school and middle school mathematics. Each of these tutors
o is based on advanced research in artificial intelligence,
  cognitive psychology, and education,
o provides students with rich problem solving activities, and
o rather than multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions
  offers students individualized step-by-step guidance as needed,
  based on a cognitive model of student knowledge.

PACT Center cognitive tutors for high school mathematics are now in use in more than 700 schools nationwide and have resulted in higher student achievement and increased retention in the academic math sequence in both inner city and suburban high schools.

We are currently embarking on a project to develop an authoring environment, based on end-user computing techniques, that will greatly facilitate the development of the cognitive models used in these tutors. The tools will be suitable for use by cognitive modelers without an extensive programming background. A first suite of these tools will be built around our current Lisp-based Tutor Development Kit (TDK).


PROGRAMMING POSITION: LISP EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE AUTHORING TOOLS

A full-time programmer is currently needed to assume responsibility for programming the authoring tools. This involves the development of GUI tools that interface with the TDK production rule engine, for supporting activities in the design, testing, and debugging of cognitive models. Additional tasks will include doing user studies of the developed tools with users of varying levels of cognitive modeling experience.

BS or equivalent in cognitive science, cognitive psychology or computer science and LISP programming experience are required.  Experience in HCI techniques for user studies, in programming inter-process communications, or in cognitive science research, research programming or mathematics education is desirable. Experience in Java GUI programming an optional extra.

The initial appointment is until September 30, 2002, but an additional year is anticipated.  We are looking to hire immediately.
Please send resumes to Neil Heffernan (email: neil@cs.cmu.edu, FAX:
268-5663, or Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213).  For more information on the PACT Center research on cognitive tutors, see: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pact/
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Neil T. Heffernan, Ph.D.   Office Phone: 412-268-5663 
Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department, Wean Hall 3208
Pittsburgh, PA 15213   
Home of Ms. Lindquist-the Online Algebra Word-Problem Tutor: http://www.AlgebraTutor.org
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