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Spent his research time developing artificial intelligence
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"As a new faculty person and a new parent, it suddenly dawned on me that instead of making machines smarter, I should be using my time to make kids smarter. So I stopped doing AI and started working in schools, trying to make technology an effective tool in the classroom. Then I discovered that schools don't want technology. They want curriculum."
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Soloway and friends launched HI-CE, the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education, a research collaborative that continues to attract faculty from around the University.
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He worked with 50,000 in 30 Detroit Middle Schools using HI-CE and helped them increase their test scores by 15%.
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Guided by UM Tech Transfer, the HI-CE faculty formed a start-up called GoKnow, Inc. in efforts to move usable technology into the classrooms
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Soloway guides his undergraduates in how to develop their own educational technology
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Awarded by EECS College of Engineering HKN Honnor Soceity
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Became a member of the Technical Advisory Board at Data Evolution Corp.
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He won the University's Golden Apple Award for Teaching
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"I've found my calling" He was named Teacher of the Year by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Honor Society.
