Janet L. Kolodner

Janet L. Kolodner is an American cognitive scientist and Regents' Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is Editor in Chief of The Journal of the Learning Sciences and was founding Executive Officer of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) .

Academic career

Kolodner graduated with a B.S. in math and computer science from Brandeis University in 1976. She then completed her M.S. in computer science in 1977 and her Ph.D. in computer science in 1980 from Yale University. She is a professor of Computing and Cognitive Science at Georgia Tech's College of Computing. She spent the 1996-97 academic year at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.

In 1992, Kolodner was elected a fellow in the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for "pioneering research on case-based reasoning and learning, including memory organization, information retrieval, problem solving, and knowledge acquisition." [ [http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php Elected AAAI Fellows] ]

Research

Kolodner's research addresses issues in learning, memory, and problem solving, both in computers and in people. She pioneered the computer reasoning method called case-based reasoning, a way of solving problems based on analogies to past experiences, and her lab emphasized case-based reasoning for situations of real-world complexity. In case-based reasoning, the results of previous cases are applied to new situations, cutting down the complexity of the reasoning necessary in later situations and allowing a problem solver to anticipate and avoid previously-made mistakes. Automated case-based reasoners from her lab include MEDIATOR and PERSUADER, common sense and expert mediation programs; JULIA, a case-based design problem solver; CELIA, a case-based car mechanic; MEDIC, a case-based physician; and EXPEDITOR, a case-based logistics manager. Kolodner's classic work in this area, "Case-based Reasoning" (1993), has been cited thousands of times by researchers. [ [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&cites=16709040386150909840 Google Scholar] ] [ cite book | id=ISBN 1-55860-237-2 | title=Case-based Reasoning | last=Kolodner | first=Janet L. | year=1993 | publisher=Morgan Kaufmann | location=San Francisco, CA ]

Her research interests are the implications and applications of cognition to education and educational technology, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, case-based reasoning, novice-expert evolution, the role of experience in expert and common-sense reasoning, design cognition, creativity, design of decision-aiding tools, and interactive learning environments.

Book published

Following are the books published by Kolodner:
* Bruckman, A.S., Guzdial, M., Kolodner, J.L., Ram, A., (Eds.) (1998). "Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences" 1998. AACE, Charlottesville, VA, 1998.
* Kolodner, J.L. (Ed.), (1993). "Case-Based Learning". Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
* Kolodner, J.L. (Ed.) (1988). "Proceedings: Case-Based Reasoning Workshop". Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Mateo, CA.
* Kolodner, J.L. & Riesbeck, C. (Eds.) (1986). "Experience, Memory, and Reasoning". Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Hillsdale, NJ.
* Kolodner, J.L. (1984). "Retrieval and Organizational Strategies in Conceptual Memory: A Computer Model". Lawrence Erlbaum, Associates, Inc., Hillsdale, NJ.

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External links

* [http://home.cc.gatech.edu/jlk Janet Kolodner at Georgia Tech]