Report of a Workshop on the Pedagogical Aspects of Computational Thinking (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Short Biographies of Committee Members, Workshop Participants, and Staff
Appendix B: Short Biographies of Committee Members, Workshop Participants, and Staff
Pages 143-162
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Previously, he conducted research at Bell Laboratories from 1963 to 1991, and again from 1997 to 2002 as vice president of the Computing Sciences Research Center. Aho's current research interests include quantum computing, programming languages, compilers, and algorithms.
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In addition, he conducts experimentation in the areas of software engineering education and software process and improvement to determine the most effective methods for training students and professionals to develop module sys tems that by nature are distributed. Blake has consulted for such companies as General Electric, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and the MITRE Corporation.
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As a learning scientist, she has researched and developed mediarich software tools and environments, most recently Scratch, together with researchers at the MIT Media Lab, that support youth in schools and community centers in becoming designers of games, simulations, and virtual worlds. As part of her policy initiatives, she wrote Under the Microscope: A Decade of Gender Equity Interventions in the Sciences (2004)
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and published in 2009. Most recently, Kolodner's research uses what she learned in design ing Learning by Design to create informal learning environments to help middle schoolers come to think of themselves as competent scientific reasoners through Kitchen Science Investigators (science in cooking)
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He was the principal investigator of the ZPL language design project, the first high-level parallel language to achieve "performance portability" across all parallel computer platforms. Snyder is the author of Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts and Capabilities, a textbook for non-techie college freshmen that teaches fundamental computing con cepts; the book is in its third edition.
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to teach ecology and introductory computer programming in Maine's seventh- and eighth-grade laptop-equipped classrooms. Paulo Blikstein is an assistant professor at Stanford's School of Education, he has a courtesy appointment in the Computer Science Department.
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Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Caperton conducted breakthrough research at the MIT Media Lab that led to publishing the book Constructionism with Seymour Papert. Her book Children Designers received the 1991 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association.
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Christine Cunningham is a vice president at the Museum of Science, Boston, where she oversees curricular materials development, teacher professional development, and research and evaluation efforts related to K-16 engineering and science learning and teaching. Her projects focus on making engineering and science more relevant, understandable, and accessible to everyone, especially marginalized populations such as women, underrepresented minorities, people from low socioeconomic
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A longtime member of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women (CRA-W) , she has served among other activities as a CRA-W co-chair, a mentor in its Distributed Mentoring Program, and a lead on its Academic Career Mentoring Workshop, Grad Cohort, and Cohort for Associated Professors projects.
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designed for educational use; Investigations in Environmental Science: A Case-Based Approach to the Study of Environmental Systems, a technology-integrated high school environmental science textbook; and Earth science units for two comprehensive, middle school science programs. He has also developed professional development programs for teachers in middle school through college and has led several large-scale instructional reform efforts in urban public schools.
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She is a genetic counselor whose interest in promoting science education and understanding led to her involvement with ScienceWorks for ME, an innovative program designed to offer scientific equipment and professional expertise to Maine's sci ence teachers and their students. She is the project director of both the NIH-funded high school biology curriculum project BiomedicineWorks, and the NSF-funded ITEST project, EcoScienceWorks.
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He retired in 2007 as the chair and founder of the Depart ment of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Butler University, and he is currently the editor of two educational columns, "Software Engineering Education" in the ACM Special Interest Group Software Engineering Notes, and "Math CountS" in the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education InRoads. In addition, he has conducted workshops and given numerous presentations on the role of mathematics in computer science and software engineering education.
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Department of Educa tion, and a National Science Teachers Association Gustav Ohaus Award for Outstanding Innovations in College Science Teaching. Jungck earned a B.S.
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With ongoing interests in youth who are power users of technology, Malyn-Smith is a PI for NSF's ITEST Learning Resource Center, serving more than 160 ITEST projects, and leads its working group on computational thinking. She is also a PI for the NSF-ATE IT Across Careers (I-III)
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Shodor established the Shodor Computational Science Institute, which was expanded with NSF funding to become the National Computational Science Institute. Shodor's Computational Science Education Reference Desk was funded as a Pathway portal of the National Science Digital Library.
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Other interests include teacher and student learning progressions, frameworks for teaching science, educational technology, science teaching and learning in urban schools, science curriculum development and evaluation, and the history and philosophy of science. Schwarz received her Ph.D.
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During the 1990s, Uzzo served on numerous advisory boards for educational institutions, as well as facilitating major technology initiatives among K-12 public/ private schools, higher education, and government to improve STEM literacy. His work on various projects important to conservation includes ecosystems studies that were instrumental in blocking offshore oil drilling in New York waters and a cross-sound bridge in Oyster Bay, as well as cleanup planning for Superfund sites.
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from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ursula Wolz is an associate professor of computer science and interactive multimedia at the College of New Jersey, is the principal investigator for the NSF program Broadening Participation in Computing via Community Journalism for Middle Schoolers, and was the principal investigator for a Microsoft Research project on multidisciplinary game development.
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. Prior to her work at the NRC, she served as a program assistant with the Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where she drafted the human enhance ment workshop report.
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She formerly served as an administrative assistant for the Ironworker Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust and managed a number of apartment rental communities for Edgewood Management Corporation in the Maryland/DC/Delaware metropolitan areas. She is in the process of earning her B.S.
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