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Computer Science

William Baggett

William Baggett

Associate Professor of Teaching

901.678.3044Dunn Hall 390wbaggett@memphis.edu

Highest Degree

PhD, Cognitive Psychology, The University of Memphis, 1998

Research Interests

Intelligent tutoring systems

Teaching Interests

Programming, ethics, databases

Biography

William B. Baggett earned a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Memphis in 1998. He also holds an MS in Computer Science and an MBA in Management Information Systems. William is currently part of the Computer Science teaching faculty at the University of Memphis. Previously, William was a Project Coordinator in the same department, where he worked on DeepTutor. DeepTutor is an intelligent tutoring system which uses natural language dialog to teach conceptual physics to high school and college students. William has also been a Professor and part-time Department Chair of Computer Information Systems at Strayer University. And for ten years, William was a Business Analyst at FedEx Express where he wrote detailed software requirements for PowerPad, a handheld computer carried by FedEx Express couriers.