Christina Gardner-McCune — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Learning to Think like a Neuron in Middle School

David Touretzky, Christina Gardner-McCune, Will Hanna, Angela Chen, Neel Pawar

AAAI 2025technical

Neuron Sandbox is a browser-based tool that helps middle school students grasp basic principles of neural computation. It simulates a linear threshold unit applied to binary decision problems, which students solve by adjusting the unit's threshold and/or weights. Although Neuron Sandbox provides ext…

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2023

Guiding Students to Investigate What Google Speech Recognition Knows about Language

David S. Touretzky, Christina Gardner-McCune

AAAI 2023technical

Today, children of all ages interact with speech recognition systems but are largely unaware of how they work. Teaching K-12 students to investigate how these systems employ phonological, syntactic, semantic, and cultural knowledge to resolve ambiguities in the audio signal can provide them a window…

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