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Burr Settles is an American computer scientist and musician. He is known for his early work in active learning, a subfield of machine learning, and authored the first textbook on the subject.[1]. After a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University as part of the Never-Ending Language Learning project[2], he joined Duolingo as an early scientist and developer. During his time at Duolingo, he contributed to both machine learning and cognitive science research by developing several personalized adaptive learning systems[3][4][5], notably half-life regression[6] and Birdbrain[7][8]. He also created the Duolingo English Test[9] out of a hackathon project[10], and eventually established and led several research groups within the company[11]. He additionally founded FAWM, an annual online songwriting challenge, as a side-project during graduate school[12]

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  1. ^ Settles, Burr (2012). Active Learning. Margan & Claypool. ISBN 978-3-031-00432-2.
  2. ^ Evans, Claire (October 8, 2010). "A computer learns the hard way: By reading the Internet". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on April 20, 2017.
  3. ^ Vanderbilt, Tom (2017). "How Duolingo uses dirty gaming tricks to get you addicted to French". WIRED.
  4. ^ Sawers, Paul (2019). "How Duolingo is using AI to humanize virtual language lessons". VentureBeat.
  5. ^ Marr, Bernard (2020). "The Amazing Ways Duolingo Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Deliver Free Language Learning". Forbes.
  6. ^ Settles, Burr; Meeder, Brendan (2016). "A Trainable Spaced Repetition Model for Language Learning" (PDF). Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL).
  7. ^ "The AI Behind Duolingo". YouTube.
  8. ^ Bicknell, Klinton; Brust, Claire; Settles, Burr (2023). "How Duolingo's AI Learns what you Need to Learn". IEEE Spectrum. 60 (3).
  9. ^ Settles, Burr; LaFlair, Geoffrey T.; Hagiwara, Masato (2020). "Machine learning–driven language assessment". Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 8: 247–263.
  10. ^ Wodzak, Sophie. "Duolingo's most popular course turned high-stakes test". Duolingo Blog.
  11. ^ "LTI Colloquium: Improving Language Learning and Assessment with A.I." YouTube.
  12. ^ "PODCAST: This Is Why Computer Science Rocks". Forbes.


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