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This material is based upon work supported by the United States National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0734761. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Kate Sanders

Kate Sanders is Associate Professor and Chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode Island. She received an A.B. in classics from Brown University, a J.D. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Brown University, with a thesis on artificial intelligence and law. In recent years, her main research interest has been empirical computer-science education. She participated in the Bootstrapping Computer Science Education workshop in 2002-2003, and has published in SIGCSE, ITICSE, ICER, and CSEJ. She is the co-author (with A. van Dam) of "Object-Oriented Programming in Java: a graphical approach".

Brad Richards

Brad Richards is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Puget Sound. He holds B.A. degrees in Physics and Computer Science, an M.Sc. in CS from the University of Victoria, and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His main research interests involve emprical computer-science education research. He participated in the Bootstrapping Computer Science Education workshop in 2002-2003, is a member of the Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium (LACS), and has published in SIGCSE, ITICSE, and JERIC.

 

Jan Erik Moström

Jan Erik Moström works as a Lecturer at the Department of Computing Science at Umeå University, Sweden. He got his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Luleå Technical University and a Licentiate of Technology from Umeå University.

His main research interests are computer-science education research and empirical studies of programmers. He participated in the Scaffolding Computer Science Education workshop in 2003-2004, the Stepping Stones workshop in 2006-2007 and has published in SIGCSE, ITICSE, ICER, and CSEJ.

Vicki Almstrum

Stephen Edwards

Stephen Edwards is an associate professor at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in software engineering, the use of formal methods in programming languages, automated testing, component-based approaches, and computer science education. The largest CS education project I am currently working on is Web-CAT: the Web-based Center for Automated Testing. Web-CAT is an open-source automated grading platform that is used by 20 different institutions. Web-CAT is customizable and extensible, allowing it to support a wide variety of programming languages and assessment strategies. Web-CAT is most well-known as the system that “grades students on how well they test their own code,” with experimental evidence that it offers greater learning benefits than more traditional output-comparison grading.

Sally Fincher

Sally is a Senior Lecturer in the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent where she leads the Computing Education Research group. Together will Laurie Murphy she is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Computer Science Education and is a member of the ACM Education Council.

She has worked extensively in discipline-specific educational research (especially computing), most recently on two series of projects which bring new models of collaboration for teaching and learning to higher education: Bootstrapping Research in Computer Science Education (2002-2005) and the Disciplinary Commons (2005-date). She was awarded the 2003 IEEE Computer Society Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award, is a 2005 UK National Teaching Fellow, and a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Kat Gunion

Kat Gunion is a Cognitive Systems student at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Yvonne Coady. She is interested in the psychological aspects of learning and education, specifically in the domain of Computer Science.

Kat has spent many years developing curriculum for elementary and secondary school students, but has just recently become involved in outreach for computer science. This summer she developed a three day workshop for students from a small Aboriginal community, Tsawout, on Vancouver Island.

Kat's present projects include: developing curriculum for a Saturday morning program which is targeted at grade 7 and 8 students, designing an IDE for beginner programmers as well as investigating research techniques in Computer Science Education. This year she participated in two workshops at OOPSLA--Process in oo Pedagogy -- Killer Examples and Programming languages in IDE's(PLIDE)--and she had a paper accepted at The Sixth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C⁵ 2008).

Mark Hall

Mark S. Hall is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin - Marathon County where he is in his 6th and final year on the tenure-track. He holds B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, and a Masters of Science in Systems Management (MSSM) at the University of Southern California. He joined the academic world after 20+ years in software development for software companies contracting for the Department of Defense and commercial applications. During this time, he lived in Japan for 5 years and Germany for 8 years. His main research interests involve computer-science education and algorithm visualizations (JHave). He is a member of the ACM and SIGCSE, AITP, and CSTA. He has participated in an ITiCSE working group (2006), and the working group paper was published in the ACM "inRoads" journal. He has presented and published at numerous regional CS Education conferences (MICS, CCSC-Midwest).

Brian Hanks

Brian Hanks is an assistant professor at Fort Lewis College. He received his B.A., Masters, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His main research interests include agile software development, computer-supported cooperative work, and computer science education. The latter is focused on issues surrounding novice programming. He has participated in two ITiCSE working groups, and has published in ITiCSE, ICER, and JERIC.

 

Steven Lonergan

Steven Lonergan is a student at the University of Victoria under the supervision of Yvonne Coady and has been heavily involved in Computer Science outreach with students of all ages. This summer while at Squeakfest, Steven had the opportunity to meet some of the developers working on the One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC), and from that point on he has had the bug to develop tools to help students. Currently he is developing a tool to help the transition between graphical and textual languages. This year Steven has participated in the Educators Symposium as well as a Workshop on Process in Object Oriented Pedagogy - Killer Examples at OOPSLA 2007. Steven has had publications at the Western Canadian Conference on Computer Education (WCCCE'07) and the Conference on Creating, Connecting, and Collaborating through Computing (C5'08). All of these are focused on Computer Science education and the ability to bridge the gap between visual and graphical programming languages.

Robert McCartney

Robert McCartney is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Natural Resources at the University of Michigan, worked as a statistician at the Smithsonian Institution, and earned Sc.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Brown University. His main research interests involve empirical computer science education research, most recently work on threshold concepts and student preconceptions about computing. His other research interests include diagrammatic reasoning and underwater robotics. He is currently co-editor in chief of ACM JERIC, and was on the editorial board of Computer Science Education from 1998-2006.

Briana Morrison

After earning a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Tulane University, Briana Morrison worked for IBM in Atlanta for 8 years.  During her career at IBM she was a software developer, team lead for customer support, and developed and led in-house training for developers and customers on object-oriented programming and specific products.  While earning a M.S. in Computer Science from Southern Tech, she was also a graduate instructor and after graduating became an adjunct instructor.  She began her full-time position at SPSU in January of 1996.  She was the faculty lead for a successful ABET accreditation evaluation which resulted in initial accreditation for the BS in Computer Science program.  She is currently Undergraduate Coordinator for Computer Science and assessment evaluator within the program.  Her research interests include Computer Science Education, gender issues in computer science, and Data Structures.

Jaime Spacco

Lynda Thomas

Lynda Thomas is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Computer Science Department at Aberystwyth University, Wales. She has a BSc and MSc in Mathematics from McMaster University, an MSc in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University, her PhD in Software Engineering from Aberystwyth, and has taught in the US as well as the UK. She participated in the Bootstrapping Computer Science Education workshop in 2002 and 2003, and has published in SIGCSE, ITICSE, and ICER. She is (still) learning Welsh, sings croakily in a community choir, and has just completed a living willow garden bench.