Research Spotlight: Kurt VanLehn Presents LearnLab in D.C.

Kurt VanLehn, a professor in Pitt's Department of Computer Science and codirector of the Pitt-Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC), represented the University at the June 21 Exhibition of the Coalition for National Science Funding in Washington, D.C. He also met with Congressman Mike Doyle (D-Forest Hills) and a number of other congressional staff to discuss his National Science Foundation-funded project on intelligent tutoring. LearnLab, a project of the PSLC, is a research facility designed to dramatically increase the ease and speed with which learning researchers can create the rigorous, theory-based experiments that pave the way to an understanding of learning.