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15 February 2018
Accomplished Learning-industry Veteran Karen Chiang Joins Alelo’s Board of Directors

Chiang is a recognized leader and innovator in international sales and development of educational products Former Pearson executive Karen Chiang has joined Alelo’s Board of Directors with the primary purpose of helping develop and implement the company’s strategy for global expansion. Ms. Chiang has been involved in language learning and testing in academic and workplace...

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28 November 2017
Alelo CEO Lewis Johnson Featured in VoyageLA’s “Inspiring Stories from West LA.”

I have believed throughout my career that artificial intelligence can help people learn, by giving each person engaging learning experiences tailored to their individual needs. At USC I started developing “pedagogical agents”, computer characters that interact with users in a human-like way to promote learning. This important work won an Influential Paper Award at this...

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14 November 2017
Alelo’s CEO Lewis Johnson Speaks at Stanford Symposium on AI-Based Ecosystems for Learning

Alelo’s CEO and co-founder Dr. Lewis Johnson spoke this week at Stanford University’s mediaX symposium on Innovation Ecosystems for AI-Based Education, Training, and Learning. Dr. Johnson offered insights on the topic of cloud-based cognitive services and their role in accelerating the development of AI-based learning products and digital ecosystems.

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03 November 2017
Alelo Investor Open House and Reception

Alelo is hosting an event for accredited investors as part of its fundraising campaign. Come learn a new language by talking with Alelo’s artificially intelligent conversational avatars. Come meet the Alelo team and see how Alelo is leveraging cloud-based AI and learner data to help people around the world learn in a better way.

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13 September 2017
Alelo Nominated for Outsell’s 30 to Watch

Alelo CEO Lewis Johnson said, “Alelo is pleased and honored to be included in the Outsell 250, and considered for the list of 30 to Watch. We believe it recognizes Alelo’s innovative learning method, as well as our Enskill platform that is providing making this method available to students around the world.”

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08 May 2017
Alelo CEO Lewis Johnson and NCSU Professor James Lester Receive Prestigious Award for Influential Paper on Pedagogical Agents

The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS) has selected a paper co-authored by Dr. Lewis Johnson of Alelo Inc., Prof. James Lester of North Carolina State University and the late Dr. Jeff Rickel of the University of Southern California to receive the 2017 Influential Paper Award. Entitled “Animated pedagogical agents: Face-to-face interaction...

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