Bruce M. McLaren

Dr. McLaren has a split appointment as a senior systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and a senior researcher at the Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI). At both institutions, McLaren is engaged in research on human learning and educational technology. At CMU, he co-manages a team of 6 programmers and research associates in the development and enhancement of the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT). Dr. McLaren has just under 80 publications in journals, conferences, workshops, symposiums, and book chapters. He is the PI on a large DOE grant (AdaptErrEx) and two German Research Foundation grants (LASAD and ALoE). In addition, Dr. McLaren has over 20 years experience in the commercial sector, applying research ideas to practical problems. As Director of eCommerce Technologies at OpenWebs Corporation from 2000 to 2002, he led a group of four engineers in the development of intelligent inter-company (B2B) trading products. He was also the leader of many expert system projects during over 10 years working for Carnegie Group, Inc. (now Logica) and Carnegie (U.K.) Limited. Dr. McLaren holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Intelligent Systems from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.S. in Computer Science (cum laude) from Millersville University. He has been a participant on many academic conference and workshop committees. Finally, Dr. McLaren is the co-holder of two patents and one patent pending.