| Michelle Sams, Ph.D.
Dr. Sams is the Program Manager for Teknowledge's Web-based Education and Training group. Current projects include the Courseware Factory Associate sponsored by the NIST ATP ALS program and the Intelligent Dialog Agents projects sponsored by the U.S. Army SBIR program. The Factory provides a systematic, fast, and easy method to convert instructional material into reusable learning objects for construction of web-based courseware. The goal of the Dialog Agents projects is to develop an intelligent tutoring and performance support system integrating natural language understanding and generation. Dr. Sams is an active participant and consultant in several national initiatives, including the DoD's Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative. Prior to joining Teknowledge in 1997, Dr. Sams worked for the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI). In addition to her research projects (e.g., intelligent language tutors), she was the technical program advisor to the ARI Director and also served in the Pentagon as the personnel and training staff expert for the Assistant Secretary of the Army-Research, Development and Acquisition. Dr. Sams has a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from New Mexico State University and has over fifteen years of experience in the areas of training and personnel research, human factors, cognitive workload assessment, computer-assisted instruction and performance support systems.
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Teknowledge Corporation has been developing innovative technologies in education and training for over 17 years, and in 1996 created a separate business unit devoted to these efforts. The Web-based Education and Training group has considerable experience developing systems that provide individualized instruction, advice, and performance support through the use of knowledge-bases, user models, and dynamic planners. These systems include intelligent tutoring systems, knowledge-based performance support systems, and knowledge-based web guides. Various members of the training group are reviewers for referred journals (e.g., International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Education), technical advisory board members (e.g., Army's Simulation and Training Command), and have been active participants, group leaders, and consultants in several recent national initiatives, such as the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (DoD), the Federal Training Technology Initiative (White House Office of Science and Technology Policy), and the Computer-assisted Education and Training Initiative (DARPA). Virtually all of Teknowledge’s government and commercial projects involve processing application knowledge and distributing customer solutions over the Internet. Teknowledge’s core competencies are in e-commerce, web-based training, information assurance, distributed systems engineering, and data fusion and situation assessment. These competencies are complementary and inherently "dual-use," enabling Teknowledge to integrate its own proprietary software and third-party products into a total systems solution for customers in industry or government. Teknowledge's business is mostly sponsored by Government R&D, but it is implementing its strategy to move to the rapid-growth commercial applications customer base in e-commerce, network security, and web-based training. The Company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in Fairfax, Orlando, and San Diego. Teknowledge has been in business for seventeen years, reporting a profit for the past eighteen consecutive quarters. Teknowledge's stock is traded on the NASDAQ SmallCap Market under the symbol TEKC. For more information, visit www.teknowledge.com. |