AMHERST, Mass.—Two University of Massachusetts computer scientists have won a $250,000 award to support development of their mathematics tutoring software.
The grant to Beverly Woolf and Ivon Arroyo from Educause and the Gates Foundation aims to improve college readiness and completion.
The UMass Amherst computer scientists were among 29 selected from more than 600 groups competing for the awards.
Woolf, Arroyo and others have been working for years to create what they say is an intelligent and emotionally perceptive math tutoring software called "Wayang Outpost."
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