User:Emilianodelau

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In 1981 Emiliano De Laurentiis founded Arrakis Systems Inc., a company that developed SOCRATES, the first adaptive computer learning environment. Arrakis went on to develop over twenty-four educational software products for high school that were published in partnership with Simon & Schuster, Inc. and Prentice-Hall, Inc.

In 1991 he founded LifeLong Software, Inc. (later to become Lifelong.com) which produced award-winning Internet content such as Monster Math. Monster Math was in use by over 6,000 students a month in four different languages. Lifelong.com reached a million hits a month. Lifelong.com also developed a Learning Management System (LMS) based on his teaching and learning methodologies, and is in use in schools in the People's Republic of China.

Knowledge Environments, Inc. has recently developed and published interactive online content in the fields of technology, history, science, environmental education, and management.

Lately Emiliano founded Knowledge Avatars Incorporated that developed Knowledge Avatars, an intelligent, adaptive learning environment where anyone can create and publish educational content.