Global Learning XPRIZE

Jack Mostow is Emeritus Research Professor of Robotics, Machine Learning, Language Technologies, and Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University.  He received his A.B. cum laude in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.  In 1992 he founded Project LISTEN, which developed an automated Reading Tutor that listens to children read aloud, winning a United States patent and the Allen Newell Medal of Research Excellence.  He has published, collaborated, reviewed, supervised students, or given invited talks in artificial intelligence, children’s reading, computational linguistics, computer science, educational data mining, human-computer interaction, intelligent tutors, learner modeling, machine learning, psychology, robotics, software engineering, speech and language technologies, and statistics.  Dr. Mostow now leads the RoboTutor team (https://www.cmu.edu/scs/robotutor/index.html) in the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE competition to develop an Android tablet app that enables children in developing countries to acquire basic literacy and numeracy without adult assistance.