Alfred Bork





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About Al (Alfred) Bork
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 * Alfred Bork is Professor Emeritus of Information and Computer Science and Physics, at the University of California, Irvine. He is founder and Director of the Educational Technology Center, for research and development of technology-based learning material. He is Vice President of A Bork Endeavors. His graduate degrees, in physics, were from Brown University.


 * Alfred Bork has worked in this area for forty five years, at the Dublin Institute of Advanced studies, the University of Alaska, at Reed College and at Harvard University. He came to UCI in 1968. He worked on the Project Physics course at Harvard.


 * In 1975 Bork was a consultant to United Kingdom National Development Programme in Computer Aided Learning. He served four years as chair of the Special Interest Group on Computer Uses in Education of the Association for Computing Machinery. He was Physics Series Editor for CONDUIT.


 * He was a member of the National Institute of Education delegation to the People's Republic of China. He was codirector and keynote speaker at the NATO Advanced Study Institutes on Computers in Science Education, at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, July 1976, and at the San Miniato Conference Center, Italy, 1985. He was the Millikan Award Lecturer for the American Association of Physics Teachers in summer 1978.


 * He was a National Science Foundation Chautaugua Lecturer for five years. He won the Outstanding Computer Educator Award from AEDS in l985. He is an ADCIS Fellow. He has been on several occasions a Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva, in Switzerland. In 1997 he ran workshops for the Colombo Staff College in India and the Philippines.


 * He was involved in policy studies about computers in education, including a study for the Norwegian government. He ran the first conference on intelligent videodisc systems. He is on the editorial boards of many journals.


 * The Educational Technology Center has many visitors each year, and hundreds of requests for information about interactive adaptive tutorial technology. The Centers reputation is based on the high quality, graphic, interactive, individualized, multimedia, learning modules it has developed. Bork has been personally involved in about 60 of the student-computer dialogs developed by the Center.


 * The Irvine work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, Digital Equipment Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation, Fujitsu, Nippon Television Network, and Annenberg/CPB. Products include an introductory quarter of college physics, The Scientific Reasoning Series and Understanding Spoken Japanese.


 * We have also created a full system for developing adaptive interactive tutorial learning material, with the help of colleagues at The University of Geneva and California State University San Marcos. We believe this is the only authoring system developed for adaptive tutorial units. It writes much of the program automatically, helps with moving material to new languages, and provides other aids to the developers and implementers.

Bork Passed Away December 18, 2007
Date: April 1, 2008 1:41:12 PM PDT To: moursund@uoregon.edu Subject: Your e-mail to Alfred Bork

We regret to report that Alfred Bork died December 18, 2007.

If you wish to communicate with the family, please contact Annette Bork , 4505 Sandburg Way, Irvine, California 92612-2739.

Donations in his memory may be made to a worthy cause of your choice.

Professional inquiries may be directed to Stephen Franklin 

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