ISAT News

We want to congratulate our partners in the Saint Vrain Valley School District for its Innovation Center’s Artificial Intelligence leadership team and students winning first place in the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Competition for Youth’s fifth annual competition. The team, started more than three years ago, is comprised of five...

iSAT Principal Investigator Sidney D’Mello, Executive Director Peter Foltz, Co-Principal Investigator Tamara Sumner, and other iSAT team members attended the AI Institutes Virtual Organization Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL) held in mid-December in California. This inaugural conference was an opportunity for significant interactions, discussions and building connections among 18...

iSAT team members are presenting a panel Reimagining AI in Education: Perspectives from the Institute for Student-AI Teaming at the Empowering Learners for the Age of AI conference this Wednesday, December 7th from 3-4pm MT. The session is part of the virtual 3-day conference taking place this week. Register for...

iSAT members flew in for a two-day Conjecture Mapping Workshop led by Strand 3 member Michael Chang (UC Berkely). Drs. Karlyn Adams-Wiggins (Assistant Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology at Portland State University) and Marcelo Worsley (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University) joined the event and met with our...

As part of the University of Memphis Computer Science Department’s Colloquium Series, iSAT’s Sidney D’Mello presented "From Autonomy to Synergy: Envisioning Next Generation Human-AI Partnerships" and met with collaborators at the University of Memphis.

iSAT welcomes Gabe Rodriguez—our new videographer—to the team! Gabe is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science; Cinema and Media Studies; and Philosophy (oh, my!) at the University of Chicago. He’ll help our team develop videos to share out our awesome research on our upcoming YouTube channel and website...

This workshop, Collaborative Analytics, will bring together a diverse group of researchers who are working with student collaboration data and developing collaborative analytics. Participants will have the opportunity to share their methodology as well as learn about other approaches that may come from different perspectives of collaborative analytics. In a...

Dr. Barbara Di Eugenio will be giving a talk on October 28 for iSAT and the Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) as part of the ICS Colloquium series . Her talk titled “Knowledge Co-Construction and Initiative in Peer Learning for introductory Computer Science” will discuss her team’s findings on knowledge...

Dr. Carolyn Rosé will be giving a talk to iSAT and the Institute of Cognitive Sciences on Friday, October 21 titled: A Layered Model of Learning during Collaborative Software Development: Programs, Programming, and Programmers Collaborative software development, whether synchronous or asynchronous, is a creative, integrative process in which something new...

iSAT’s mission is to develop an AI Partner that will help create equitable and engaging learning experiences for all students. But as much as we believe in a world where AI can be extremely useful, we also share the broader concerns related to this science, such as privacy infringement, workplace...