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Dr. Johnson co-founded our company while he was director of
the Center for Advanced Research in Technology for Education
(CARTE) at the Information Sciences Institute of the University
of Southern California, where he was the principal investigator
of the Tactical Language project that resulted in our products.
He left USC ISI in 2007 to join us full time as chief scientist,
but continues to be active in research focusing on the successful
adoption of interactive learning environments. His work
on Tactical Language won DARPA's Significant Technical Achievement
Award in 2005.
Languages
Fluent in English, French, German, Chinese, Italian,
Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.
Working knowledge of Portuguese, Japanese, Dutch, Malay,
Pashto, Greek, Dari, and Cherokee.
Professional preparation
Princeton University: A.B. Linguistics, Summa Cum Laude,
1978
Yale University: M.Phil. Computer Science, 1980
Yale University: Ph.D. Computer Science, 1985
Appointments
Chief Scientist, Alelo Inc. — 2006-present
General Manager, Tactical Language Training LLC — 2005-present
Senior Project Leader and Director, Center for Advanced Research
in Technology for Education (CARTE), Information Sciences
Institute (ISI), University of Southern California — 2000-2007
Research Professor, Department of Computer Science, University
of Southern California — 2004-2007
Research Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University
of Southern California — 1996-2004
Project Leader, Information Sciences Institute (ISI), University
of Southern California — 1987-2000
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University
of Southern California — 1987-1996
Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute (ISI), University
of Southern California — 1985-1987
Selected publications
W. Lewis Johnson. Serious use of a serious game for language
learning. Proceedings of the International Conference
on Artificial in Intelligence. IOS Press, Amsterdam,
2007
W. Lewis Johnson, Carole Beal. Iterative evaluation of
a large-scale, intelligent game for language learning. Proceedings
of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
in Education, in press. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2005
W. Lewis Johnson, Richard E. Mayer, Elisabeth André, Matthias
Rehm. Cross-cultural evaluation of politeness in tactics
for pedagogical agents. Proceedings of the International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.
IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2005
Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson, Richard E. Mayer, Paula Rizzo,
Erin Shaw, Heather Collins. The politeness effect: Pedagogical
agents and learning gains. Proceedings of the International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.
IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2005
W. Lewis Johnson, Paula Rizzo. Politeness in tutoring dialogs:
'Run the factory, that's what I'd do'. Proceedings
of the 2004 Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2004
Jeff Rickel, W. Lewis Johnson. Virtual humans for team
training in virtual reality. Proceedings of
IAIED '99, Le Mans, France. Winner of Best Paper
Award
Stacy Marsella, W. Lewis Johnson, Catherine LaBore. Interactive
pedagogical drama for health interventions. Artificial
Intelligence in Education: Shaping the Future of Learning
through Intelligent Technologies. Amsterdam: IOS
Press
W. Lewis Johnson, Jeff Rickel, James C. Lester. Animated
pedagogical agents: Face-to-face interaction in interactive
learning environments. International Journal
of Artificial Intelligence in Education 11. Most
frequently cited of papers published in IJAIED over
the last two years.
Randy Hill, W. Lewis Johnson, Situated plan attribution, Journal
of Artificial Intelligence in Education 6(1). 1995
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Synergistic activities
Local Arrangements Chair, International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence in Education, 2007
Secretary and President, International Artificial Intelligence
in Education Society, 2000-2003
Program Co-Chair, International Joint Conference on Autonomous
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems , 2002
Program Chair, Intelligent User Interfaces Conference,
2003
Chair, ACM Special Interest Group for Artificial Intelligence
(SIGART), 1995-1999
Collaborators and other affiliations
COLLABORATORS
Eva Baker, UCLA
Harold O'Neil, USC
Mark Lepper, Stanford University
Richard Clark, USC
Maged Dessouky, USC
John Faure, Modus Operandi
Greg Johnson, Northrop Grumman
Ed Kazlauskas, USC
Ernest Katz, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
James Lester, North Carolina State University
Azad Madni, Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc.
Christoph von der Malsburg, USC
Stacy Marsella, USC / ISI
Richard Mayer, UC Santa Barbara
Allen Munro, USC Behavioral Technology Labs
Hartmut Neven, USC / ISI
Helen Pain, University of Edinburgh
O.J. Sahler, University of Rochester
Erin Shaw, USC
John Silvester, USC
Randy Stiles, Lockheed Martin
William Swartout, USC
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GRADUATE ADVISOR
Elliott Soloway, University of Michigan
SPONSORED STUDENTS AND
POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLARS
Lei Qu
Shumin Wu
Ning Wang
Rogelio Adobbati
Richard Angros (Raytheon)
Kevin Benner
Ali Erdem
Rajaram Ganeshan (Virtual Tutor, Inc.)
Randall Hill (USC ICT)
Paola Rizzo (CNR, Rome)
Chon Yi (Rare Media, Inc.)
Lorna Zorman (HP Labs)
Total number of students advised: 10
Total number of postdocs sponsored: 2
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