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October 24 – 28, 2022: iSAT Welcomes special guest speaker Dr. Barbara Di Eugenio, Professor for the Department of Computer Sciences and head of the NLP Lab at the University of Illinois Chicago

Dr. Barbara Di Eugenio will be giving a talk on October 28 for iSAT and the Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) as part of the ICS Colloquium series. Her talk titled “Knowledge Co-Construction and Initiative in Peer Learning for introductory Computer Science” will discuss her team’s findings on knowledge co-construction (KCC), initiative shift, and learning through an analysis of peer-learning interactions in Computer Science and the results from incorporating their findings into KSC-PaL, an artificial agent that can collaborate with a human student via natural-language dialog and actions within a graphical workspace.