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Chemical Education: Software About This lssue
Abstract for Special lssue Number 2
John W. Moore Jon L. Holmes University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706
KC? Discoverer with Knowledgeable Counselor Daniel Cabrol Universite de Nice F 06034 NICE CEDEX, France John W. Moore University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison. WI 53706 Robert C. Rittenhouse Walla Walla College College Place, WA 99324
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KC? Discoverer (1)is a Droeram that oennits students ~-~ .. and faculty u~explore a wide r:mgc oot'propcrties physical, chemical. and nucroncouic, ot'the elements and in cloielv cwrdinn;ed with thr pr;iodic tahle The progam has bccn extended bv addine a s integrated functions: displ;ivinp stills a n d "video sequences from t h e ~ e r i o d iTable i Videodisc C2). either on a s e ~ a r a t evideo monitor or using an IHM M-Motion video ad;iptcr: building(and manipul:it: ine with Boolean lo~ic,sets d c l e m r n t s that satisfy a variet; of conditions; &d consulting a ~nowledgeabieCounselor (KC. the source of Dart of the name of the program) that advises students about how to approach speiificproblems that they might be assigned. The advice generated by the KC is not programmed in but rather generated on the fly by a n artificial intelligence program. An example of a problem that students could use the program to solve is, "Amystery element is expensive because i t is not readily available on the surface of earth. I t has a hieh density and can be scratched by glass or iron. I t can bcmrltrd in a chrorn~umor vanadiimcruciblr. It forms a chloride .MCI:
