The city of Memphis has international acclaim for a few different reasons. Homebase of both the blues and FedEx, the town is known as a cultural and delivery hotspot. Medical research at St. Jude brings people in need across the world to benefit from the Bluff City.
But one of the most well known things about Memphis that still evades local importance is the research being done at the University of Memphis' FedEx Institute of Technology, according to the Center for the Study of Adult Literacy Program Coordinator, Whitney Bare.
Artificial intelligence has become a hot topic as of late, even having Bill Gates remark on the likelihood of a robot workforce. |
"Auto Tutor is a program that attempts to model a person's tutoring strategies in an effort to adapt to a student or learners learning style," said former research assistant John Myers. "It's purpose is to produce the most robust tutoring system."