Curriculum Vitae Mary A. Mark, M.Sc. 130 W. Nippon St. Philadelphia, P.A. U.S.A. 19119 Phone: (215) 248-1248 Email: celebration@pobox.upenn.edu HomePage

"The knowledge engineer is part student, part teacher, part consultant, part model builder, and part programmer." Harmon, Maus & Morrissey, Expert Systems Tools and Applications, 1988.

Academic Credentials:

Master of Science in Computational Science 1991
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
CANADA

Advanced Certificate in Science in Computational Science 1988
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
CANADA

Bachelor of Arts High Honours in Psychology 1984
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
CANADA

Scholarships and Awards:

• Convocating Graduate Student Award of Excellence, 1991 (Awarded by Department of Computational Science)
• Graduate Research Assistantship, 1989 - 1991 (Computer Science)
• NSERC Summer Undergraduate Research Award, 1987 (Computer Science)
• NSERC Summer Undergraduate Research Award, 1984 (Psychology)
• Saint Thomas More Honours Scholarship, 1982 -1983

Professional and Research Interests:

Experience:

PROJECT LEADER, CELEBRATION OF WOMEN WRITERS

Since 1994, I have been developing an on-line resource entitled A Celebration of Women Writers. The Celebration lists women authors and links to information about them and freely readable on-line editions of their published books. Editions of out-of-copyright works are also being put on-line at the Celebration by myself and others. In the fall of 1997, I began the Build-A-Book Initiative, soliciting volunteers via the web, selecting books, sending out chapters, and supervising completion of works as sections were returned. More than 200 volunteers have been engaged in collaborative development of on-line editions of works by women as part of this initiative. As of April, 2007, I have published 300 on-line books on the Celebration of Women Writers website. The Celebration lists about 16,000 authors, and links to about 10,000 author information pages and more than 5500 complete on-line editions of published books by women.
Operating Systems: Macintosh Imac; Languages/Tools: WWWeb (HTML, NCSA Mosaic, Netscape)
URL: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

RESEARCH PROGRAMMER, INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS

In the Anderson lab, supervised originally by Dr. Anderson, and later by Ken Koedinger, I was the primary research programmer working on the development of an Algebra Word Problem Tutor for Grade Nine Algebra. The tutor has since been commercialized, and is being marketed to schools internationally by Carnegie Learning Partners. I worked with Bill Hadley, a curriculum designer and teacher in the Pittsburgh Public School system, to develop a tutor which fulfills objectives of his PUMP Algebra Curriculum (Pittsburgh Urban Mathematics Project). The tutor was implemented in Allegro Common Lisp, on top of the ACT Tutor Development Kit. Developing it involved working with and integrating the work of other programmers and team members, and working with teachers and students at the schools. I also developed Lisp tools for evaluation of student protocol data, and carried out formative evaluations of the tutor, assessing the effectiveness of particular tutor features. These protocol analysis tools, with their accompanying documentation, have been used by other members of the research team.
Operating Systems: Powermac 8500; Languages/Tools: Allegro Common Lisp, ACT Tutor Development Kit (ACT production system language), WWWeb (HTML, NCSA Mosaic, Netscape)

COMPUTER PROGRAMMER

I was hired by Dr. Winne to do further work on the STUDY project, developing a demonstration module in the domain of education, testing and documenting the STUDY system, and developing user support information.
Operating Systems: Macintosh IIx; Languages/Tools: Nexpert Object, Hypercard, Superpaint

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

As a senior summer student at the Alberta Research Council, I was involved in several projects, requiring a variety of skills. As a major project, I developed an instructional module for WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System) using the STUDY system. STUDY is a prototype authoring and delivery environment based on Nexpert Object and Hypercard. I also obtained and documented demonstration versions of AI systems for instructional authoring and delivery from developers in North America and Europe.
Operating System: Macintosh IIfx; Languages/Tools: Nexpert Object, Hypercard, Superpaint

COMPUTER PROGRAMMER

I was one of several programmers developing an expert system for the installation and monitoring of fluid containment tanks. The expert system was written in Prolog and integrated with a tank maintenance system written in C.
Operating System: Unix; Computer Languages: Prolog, C

RESEARCH ASSISTANT (part-time)

I replaced another programmer in the third year of a three year project . The project's goal was to develop an expert system for diagnosis of learning problems in children. I synthesized the existing work, extended it, and wrote final research reports and documentation for the project.
Operating Systems: MSDOS (PC); Computer Languages: Prolog

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

I helped develop a diagnostic system for identifying strategies used by students when writing Lisp programs. I implemented a prototype system using Lisp and the ART Inference Engine for rule-based inference. I was also responsible for maintenance of the Symbolics Lisp machines used in the project, and for supervision of undergraduate and masters students who were learning to use them.
Operating Systems: Symbolics Lisp; Computer Languages: Symbolics Lisp

COMPUTER PROGRAMMER

As a summer student, I reviewed the computer science research literature on natural language generation, and developed a program for generating a restricted subset of natural language.
Operating System: Suntools (Sun); Computer Languages: Franz Lisp.

COMPUTER PROGRAMMER

I converted a package of computer development utilities to C, and worked on the development of a communication protocol for computer networks.
Operating System: Unix; Computer Languages: C.

Theses:

Mark, M.A. The VCR Tutor: Design and evaluation of an intelligent tutoring system. Master's Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1991. Advisor: Prof. J. E. Greer, Department of Computational Science. (Also available as ARIES Research Report 91-7, ARIES Laboratory, Department of Computational Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1991.)

Mark, M.A. Effects of insulin on food intake in the rat and the thirteen-lined ground squirrel: A comparative study. Bachelor of Arts Honours Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1984. Advisor: E.K. Walls, Department of Psychology.

Publications:

Mark, M. A., & Koedinger, K. R. Strategic Support of Algebraic Expression-Writing.Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on User Modeling. Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 20-24, 1999. [UM99 Website]

Mark, M. A., Koedinger, K. R., & Hadley, W. H. Elaborating Models of Algebraic Expression-Writing. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. San Antonio, Texas, August 16-19, 1998.

Koedinger, K.R., Anderson, J. R., Hadley, W. H. & Mark, M.A. Intelligent tutoring goes to school in the big city. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (Special Issue of AI-ED 95 best papers), 1997, 8, 30-43.

Koedinger, K.R., Anderson, J. R., Hadley, W. H. & Mark, M.A. Intelligent tutoring goes to school in the big city. Proceedings of the Seventh World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Washington, D.C., August 16-19, 1995. (Awarded 1 of 2 Best Paper Awards.)

Mark, M.A. & Greer, J.E. The VCR tutor: Effective instruction for device operation. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 1995, 4(2), 209-246.

Mark, M.A. & amp; Greer, J.E. Evaluation methodologies for intelligent tutoring systems. Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (Special Issue on Evaluation), 1993, 4 (2/3), 129-153. [one of the top 20 most referenced papers of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Education]

Winne, P.H., Butler, D.L., McGinn, M., Sugarman, J.H., Jones, M., Mark, M., & Field, D. "STUDY: A tool for authoring adaptive learning environments and for advancing instructional research." ITS '92: System Demonstrations (Second International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems). Montreal, June 10-12, 1992.

Mark, M.A. & Greer, J.E. "Methods for intelligent tutoring system evaluation." Proceedings of the East West Conference on Emerging Computer Technologies in Education, 6-9 April 1992, Moscow, Russia. ICSTI: Moscow, Russia, 1992. Awarded 1 of 5 Best Paper Awards, for ITS-related papers presented at the conference.

Jones, M., Mark, M., Field, D., & Winne, P.H. The STUDY system: A learning environment to facilitate reading comprehension and studying. Paper presented at Survival Skills in the Nineties: A conference about media and information literacies, Edmonton, Alberta, November 1 - 2, 1991.

Mark, M.A. & Greer, J.E. "The VCR Tutor: Evaluating instructional effectiveness." Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, August 7-10, 1991. COGSCI: Chicago, Illinois, 1991. (Also available as ARIES Research Report 91-5, ARIES Laboratory, Department of Computational Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1991.)

Mark, M.A. & Greer, J.E. "Tutoring systems for device operation." Proceedings of the International Conference for Cognitive Science for the Development of Organizations (ICO '91), Montreal, May 2-4, 1991. (Also available as ARIES Research Report 91-2, ARIES Laboratory, Department of Computational Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1991.)

Mark, M.A. "Evaluation of intelligent tutoring systems." Proceedings of the Second Annual Graduate Symposium on Computational Science, April 5, 1990, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Department of Computational Science, 1990. (Also available in extended form as ARIES Research Report 90-2, ARIES Laboratory, Department of Computational Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1990.)

Greer, J. E., Mark, M.A., & McCalla, G.I. "Incorporating granularity-based recognition into SCENT." Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education, Amsterdam. May, 1989, 107-115.

Coulman, R., Bhuiyan, S., Mark, M., Prasad, B., Schweigardt, M., Greer, J., & McCalla, G. "The Circuits Intelligent Tutoring System." Proceedings of the Sixth Canadian Symposium on Instructional Technology, Halifax, Canada, May 1989.

McCalla, G., Greer, J., & Members of the SCENT Research Team. "Intelligent advising in problem-solving domains: The SCENT-3 architecture." Proceedings of Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS-88. Montreal, June 1-3, 1988.

Walls, E.K., Mark, M.A., & Wishart, T.B. "Suppression of haloperidol and apomorphine effects in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats." Proceedings of the Canadian Federation of Biological Studies, 1984, 27, 154.